Wilhelm G. Niemoller

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Wilhelm G. Niemöller (* 1928 in Schluesselburg ; † February 21, 2017 in Lemgo ) was a German painter , sculptor and poet .

Life

Wilhelm G. Niemöller attended the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld , became an air force helper in World War II and was taken prisoner of war. He then studied theology and English at German universities and at Trinity College Dublin . He received his artistic training at the Werkkunstschule Bielefeld and at the Institute for Painting and Graphics at the Philipps University of Marburg . He wrote poems in German and English. They have appeared in international literary magazines in Rome, Belfast, New York and Granada. Wilhelm G. Niemöller lived and worked in Lemgo.

From around 1960 he was a teacher at the elementary school with an assembly train in Blomberg. He gave English and art classes.

Artistic creation

His works deal critically with people in society. "Bizarre and wit, [...], then dominate in the idiosyncratic wooden sculptures, these heads, jointed dolls and hybrids between humans and animals, from which a peculiar fascination emanates." Wilhelm G. Niemöller worked with various techniques: drawing, painting, experimental photography , Paper cuts, etc. a. Since the early 1970s he also worked as a sculptor, he created figurative works in wood, bronze and felt. From 1983 to 1995 he took part in the annual gifts of the Kestner Society in Hanover with figurative works.

Around 1995 Wilhelm G. Niemöller dealt with seeing in itself and the reception of performing arts. He created a series of works in Braille, combining texts and illustrations. The blind person who scans them “sees” landscapes, figurative scenes and reads texts - for example the sentence “I want out of here” in a closed, punched rectangle. The sighted […], on the other hand, is blind to these texts.

Many of his works show the fascination of eros. At times the nude drawing was the focus of his artistic production.

Around the year 2000 he discovered the technique of overdrawing , with which he alienated and reinterpreted reproductions of his work, among other things.

reception

Wilhelm G. Niemöller disregarded the mechanisms of the art market, for which he was punished with appropriate disregard.

Honors

Exhibitions (selection)

Wilhelm G. Niemöller had numerous solo exhibitions, including in Dublin, Bonn, Edinburgh, Bern, Granada, London and Kaunas. His first was in Göttingen in 1952.

A retrospective took place in 2008 on his 80th birthday in the domain of Brake Castle near Lemgo.

In 2012, as part of a project by the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences , design students created several drafts for a website with the aim of publishing all of its approximately 3000 works. He was portrayed with some of his sculptures and objects. The designs were presented to the public.

literature

  • Institute for Lippe Regional Studies (ed.): Niemöller, catalog for the exhibition , Lemgo, 2008.
  • Marlis Leue, Jürgen P. Wallmann, Juan Cabrera: Poesie-Album de Wilhelm Niemöller , GalerÍa Virtual, Granada, 1995.
  • District Lippe, Landesverband Lippe - Institute for Lippe Regional Studies (ed.): Niemöller, catalog for the exhibition in the Ciurlionis State Museum of Art (Kaunas / Lithuania), o. O., 1993.
  • Jürgen Scheffler (Ed.): Sculptures, silhouettes and Polaroids - old and new works by Wilhelm Niemöller, (= museum booklets. Writings and catalogs from the Municipal Museum Hexenbürgermeisterhaus Lemgo, volume 3), Bielefeld 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The city of Lemgo mourns Wilhelm G. Niemöller. In: lippe-news.de. Lippe News Jendrkowiak and Quantity GbR, March 2, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c Jürgen P. Wallmann: Dionysian Cults, Westfalenspiegel 6, 1977, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Ruth Dröse: Life as a bitterly evil game, Frankfurter Rundschau, April 15, 1997.
  4. ↑ Jürgen P. Wallmann: Wilhelm Niemöller stimulates experimentation, Westfalenspiegel 4, 1995, p. 26.
  5. ↑ The regional association's cultural award goes to Wilhelm Niemöller, Lippische Rundschau, October 20, 2001.
  6. ^ Exhibition in the domain. Wilhelm Niemöller - retrospective for his 80th birthday. In: lippe-news.de. April 4, 2008, accessed December 21, 2012.
  7. ↑ Sven Koch: Students develop an idea for an Internet museum. Lemgoers are working on a project with the life's work of the artist Wilhelm Niemöller. In: Lippische Landes-Zeitung. September 28, 2012, accessed December 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Niemöller, Wilhelm G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Key castle
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2017
Place of death Lemgo