Wilhelm Granzow

Wilhelm Granzow (* 1885 in Pamplin, Dünnow municipality , Pomerania ; † 1945 in Stolpmünde ) was a German portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Granzow came from a farming family. His teacher considered him a "loyal and serious student, except for music versatile", with an unusual talent in drawing and painting .

Thanks to an imperial scholarship, Granzow was able to attend the Royal Art School in Charlottenburg near Berlin . During his second year of study he was commissioned to paint the living quarters of the academy director Anton von Werner .

The coat of arms of Stolpmünde designed by Wilhelm Granzow

Granzow soon received orders. His commissions took him to various parts of Germany, to Vienna and as far as Italy . After a stay in Venice and a long study trip to Italy, he was able to move to Paris in 1913 through the mediation of the general director of the Berlin museums, Wilhelm von Bode .

After the First World War , Granzow first lived in Berlin , later in the Baltic Sea port of Stolpmünde , for which he created the coat of arms in 1922 , which was in use until 2006 and is now in a somewhat modernized form.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Pagel: The district of Stolp in Pomerania. Evidence of his German past . Lübeck 1989.
• Hans Schreiber: From the history of the parish village of Dünnow in the Stolp district (Pomerania) and its surroundings . Manuscript from 1950. Edited by Hans-Martin Schreiber, Wiesbaden 1996. ( PDF, 1 MB )