Wilhelm Facklam

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Wilhelm Facklam (born April 16, 1893 in Upahl near Grevesmühlen , † September 21, 1972 in Winkelhaid near Nuremberg ) was a German landscape painter and draftsman of rural Mecklenburg motifs.

Life

Born in Upahl near Grevesmühlen as the son of a farmer, Facklam worked in agriculture for a few years after graduating from Schwerin secondary school in 1908. He received his first drawing lessons in 1914 from the landscaper Ludwig Dettmann (1856–1937) in Schwerin. After an interruption due to military service from 1919/20 on the advice of the Schwerin restorer and landscape painter, Professor Carl Malchin (1838–1923), further lessons with Professor Franz Bunke (1857–1939) in Schwaan and at the art school in Weimar , where he stayed until 1923 In the same year he set up freelance in Schwerin, where he founded a painting school in 1930 with his painter friend Richard Zscheked (1885–1954). The famous Schwerin painter Carl Hinrichs (1903–1990) had his first lessons here . Facklam was a member of the NSDAP . 1939–1945 as a soldier in World War II , Facklam returned to Schwerin in 1946 from captivity. In 1963 he moved to Winkelhaid near Nuremberg for health reasons. He was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists Berlin, the Mecklenburg Artists Association, the Schwerin Artists Association and the Nuremberg Artists Association.

Wilhelm Facklam married Hertha, born in Weimar, in May 1922. Paris (* 1892). The couple had a daughter. The sculptor Roland Paris was his brother-in-law, the painter Ronald Paris is his nephew.

Works (selection)

  • 1920 View of Crivitz, View of Schwerin, In Wismarer Hafen, View of Schwaan
  • 1922 Landscape near Schwaan
  • 1923 Gray winter day
  • 1924 pastures in the cornfield
  • 1926 Katen in Upahl
  • 1927 Morning mood on the Warnow
  • 1930 potato harvest, windmill
  • 1937/38 shepherd with sheep
  • 1940 Grove of trees in autumn
  • 1941 farm
  • 1943 A day in spring
  • 1957 Old Mecklenburg

Exhibition participation

  • 1921 in the Mecklenburg State Museum in Schwerin
  • 1933 in the Marienpalais Schwerin with his brother-in-law, the sculptor Roland Paris;
  • 1958 Exhibition in the house of the Schweriner Kulturbund
  • 1966 in the Universa House in Nuremberg
  • In 1976 Facklam was represented with two pictures in the major Schwerin exhibition “100 Years of Mecklenburg Painting”
  • 1983 in the State Museum Schwerin
  • 1999/2000 Museumsverein Stade eV in the Kunsthaus Stade
  • 2011 in the Schleswig-Holstein House in Schwerin

literature

  • Lisa Jürß: Schwaan artists' colony. Gallery in the old watermill. Work catalog. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2002. ISBN 3-88132-295-7
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 .
  • Werner Stockfisch: Mecklenburg in pictures by Wilhelm Facklam. Demmler Verlag, Schwerin 1993, ISBN 3-910150-19-5 .
  • City archive Schwerin (Ed.): Neu Schwerin - 16 collotype prints after charcoal drawings by Wilhelm Facklam, Schwerin 1960.
  • Facklam, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 67 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Alberto Shayo : Roland Paris. The Art Deco Jester King. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-823-0 , p. 14.
  2. ↑ a b c Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2659 f .
personal data
SURNAME Facklam, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Upahl
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1972
Place of death Winkelhaid