Wilhelm Gattinger

Wilhelm Gattinger (born July 16, 1861 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 20, 1927 in Mettlach ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Gattinger initially received lessons in geometry and perspective from his father. He later completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter . Due to his talent, he received private lessons from the painter Peipers and the well-known Frankfurt landscape painter, etcher and lithographer Peter Becker . When he was 17 years old, he was accepted at the Städelschule .

At the age of 36, Wilhelm Gattinger, who was deaf at a young age , came to Mettlach as an earthenware painter . From 1914 he worked as a teacher at the Villeroy & Boch painting school . Gattinger married for the second time in his new place of residence. A street in the Keuchingen district ( Gattingerweg ) was named in his honor .

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Like his teacher Peter Becker, Gattinger loved the Saar Valley . He was a romantic who meticulously and atmospherically captured the landscape of the lower Saar. In addition to his oil paintings, his sketches and studies, mostly executed in pencil or ink, were very popular with his contemporaries.

Most of his works are in private hands. The Merzig Museum Schloss Fellenberg presents some of his pictures in a permanent exhibition, e.g. B. a color lithograph with a view of Mettlach Abbey.

During his lifetime he was included in the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . The income from the sale of his pictures enabled him to travel extensively through Germany, on which oil paintings of the Spreewald , Lusatia , the Palatinate as well as the Rhine and Neckar were created.

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  Mauritius pond in Mettlach (1927, oil on canvas)

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  View from the Old Abbey into the Saareck Park in Mettlach (1925, oil on canvas)

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  Salt mill near Dreisbach (no year, oil on canvas)

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  Gasthaus "Zur Saar" in Hilringen (no year, oil on canvas)

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  View of the village and Kronberg Castle (1894)

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  Entrance to Saarhölzbach (1925, oil on canvas)

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  Alte Muehle Besseringen (Summer), (1925, oil on canvas)

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  Narrow forest path with stone (1924, oil on canvas)

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  Marienhof (Saarlouis) (1922, oil on canvas)

literature

• Gattinger, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 254 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Traudl Brenner: Mettlach as a motif in artistic representations . In: Mettlach municipal administration (ed.): 1300 years of Mettlach . Merziger Druckerei und Verlags GmbH, Merzig 1976.
• Maria Beckers, Josef Weber, Traudl Brenner, Ingrid Jakobs: The painter Wilhelm Gattinger. Catalog for the exhibition “The painter Wilhelm Gattinger and his teachers” . Ed .: Museum Schloss Fellenberg. 2001.
• Wilhelm Gattinger . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 50, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22790-6 , p. 152.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Gattinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anniversaries 2004 (reference to the exhibition in the Museum Schloss Fellenberg in Merzig). 2004, accessed December 21, 2010 .