Wilhelm Gdanietz

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Wilhelm Gdanietz (born January 21, 1893 in Mainz , † 1969 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape, genre and interior painter.

Life

Wilhelm Gdanietz became deaf from scarlet fever at the age of two, so he attended the institution for the deaf and dumb in Osnabrück from 1902 to 1908 . From 1911 to 1918 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Claus Meyer (1856–1919), Eduard von Gebhardt (1838–1925) and Wilhelm Spatz (1861–1931) as well as in the master workshop with Franz Kiederich (1873–1950).

First he painted motifs from South Tyrol and Austria that he found during his travels through the Alps.

Gdanietz later ran a studio in Volendam, Holland , where he painted numerous of his motifs, especially Dutch genre and interior pictures, which today make up the majority of his more than 1000 paintings.

With the construction of the dike on the Zuiderzee , fishing villages disappeared, tranquility and idyll were lost, so that in 1930 the artist gave up his studio in Volendam and moved to Düsseldorf. There he remained true to his Dutch motifs, even furnishing his apartment in the style of a Dutch fisherman's hut.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Although deaf, Gdanietz was represented at the "Great German Art Exhibition" in the years 1937–1944 in the House of German Art in Munich.
  • In October 2009 pictures of him were shown in the exhibition: “Deaf Artists in the Third Reich” in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center in Frankfurt / Main.
  • Dürerbund Osnabrück: Exhibition in the museum, November 21 to December 5, 1920: "Wilhelm Gdanietz, paintings".

Works (selection)

  • Arnold auction house, Frankfurt / Main, auction June 10, 1995: "Kitchen interior with fisherman mending nets"
  • Christie's, London, South Kensington, auction on September 16, 1999: "The Seamstress"
  • Christie's Amsterdam auction July 2000: "A girl in Volendam peeling potatoes"
  • Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, auction November 21, 2002: "Nets mending fishermen in the parlor"
  • Meerbuscher Kunstauktionshaus, Meerbusch, auction June 4, 2003: "Portrait of a fisherman with a fur hat"
  • Christie's Amsterdam auction on September 1st, 2004: "A fisherman from Volendam is building a model ship"
  • Christie's Amsterdam auction on September 1st, 2005: "A pipe smoking man in a Dutch room"
  • Galerie Bassenge, Berlin auction June 2009: "Smoking fisherman from Volendam reading the newspaper"
  • Hargesheimer & Günther, Düsseldorf Auction on May 22, 2010: "The Wine Connoisseur"
  • Richter and Kagitz, Bamberg Auction on January 12, 2011: "Pipe-smoking fisherman"
  • Oldskuul Antiques 2016: "Two fishermen in a fisherman's hut, smoking pipes and playing the accordion"

literature

  • Gdanietz, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 212-213 .
  • Carsten Roth: Gdanietz, Wilhelm . 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. 442.

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personal data
SURNAME Gdanietz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, genre and interior painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death Dusseldorf