Wilhelm Dürr the Younger

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Two children playing , oil on cardboard, signed by Wilhelm Dürr

Wilhelm Dürr the Younger (born August 24, 1857 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † February 23, 1900 in Munich ) was a German painter and draftsman, and professor at the Art Academy in Munich.

Life

He was the son of the painter Wilhelm Dürr the Elder (1815–1890) and his wife Berta Gruny .

After an initial training with his father, he entered the class of antiquities at the Munich Art Academy in 1874. There he was trained by Wilhelm von Diez and strongly influenced. A turning point was the Munich art exhibition of 1883, where he got to know French open-air painting and the works of German artists such as Fritz von Uhde and Max Liebermann . He became known in the 1880s for still lifes and portraits.

Around 1890 he was in the artist colonies of Dachau and Osternberg in the Innviertel (today part of Braunau am Inn ) to learn landscape painting. Like his father, he was also responsible for furnishing several churches and other buildings in and around Freiburg. In 1888 he won the gold medal at the Great Munich Art Exhibition for the picture Madonna in the Green . After this success he first became an assistant teacher at the Munich Academy and in 1892 a professor. There he mainly taught life drawing. At the end of his life he was seriously ill and only painted a few pictures.

In Dachau, Wilhelm-Dürr-Strasse commemorates the painter.

Works (selection)

  • In 1885, in collaboration with the painter Ludwig Herterich, the stairwell in the Grand Ducal Palace in Baden-Baden
  • 1886 with his father design for a window of the Freiburg Minster (St. Jerome and Archduke Albrecht VI.)
  • 1888 Madonna in the Green

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Dürr in: Digital matriculation books of the AdBK Munich

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Dürr, Wilhelm the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1900
Place of death Munich