Wilhelm Herberholz

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Wilhelm "Olof" Herberholz (born February 1, 1881 in Schwerte , † February 10, 1956 in Oberstdorf ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Wilhelm Herberholz mainly created landscapes and portraits. Born in Schwerte, he studied teaching at the Kassel Art Academy and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In Düsseldorf he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and, as a member of the association of Düsseldorf artists , Herberholz received a studio around 1909 in the " artist and studio house " at Sittarder Strasse 5, where he was registered in 1912 as a master student.

His pictures were shown in 1910 and 1914 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , in 1911 in Düsseldorf, in 1914 at the exhibition of the Academic Association "Laetitia" in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and in 1921 in the annual exhibition of the artists' association "Niederrhein" in Düsseldorf.

In 1914 Herberholz moved into a house at Markt 64 in Kaiserswerth , where Arthur Kaufmann initially stayed. He was a war volunteer in the 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11 and in Kaiserswerth was the "2nd. Replacement Battalion Infantry Regiment No. 53 ”. During a stay in the Baltic States, more than ten watercolors were created in 1918 - for the illustrated and text volume of the historian Hermann Kassebaum, commissioned by the war press and the Foreign Office. a. Kaufhof in Dorpat , cathedral in Reval and city ​​view of Narva .

At the beginning of 1920, Herberholz married Helene Erbes, the daughter of Robert and Sophie Erbes, née Wagner, from Neuwied, who painted and made pottery herself and moved into the Erbes family's house at Gartenstrasse 44.

In the mid-1920s, Wilhelm Herberholz took over the chair for free graphics and painting technology at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as well as the workshop management for materials science .

From 1938 Wilhelm Herberholz fell victim to the Nazi wave of purges . The Stapo Düsseldorf interned him for a long time .

In 1944 a work by Herberholz was shown at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich; as an artist, he was also listed in the corresponding annual main catalog.

Together with Ewald Mataré and Otto Pankok , Wilhelm Herberholz was recalled as professor at the Düsseldorf Academy in 1945.

Student (selection)

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Munich 2006. (also as Google eBook)
  • J. Heinrich Schmidt : In memoriam Friedrich Wilhelm Herberholz . In: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter 12/3 (1956), p. 61 f.
  • Dirk-Gerd Erpenbeck: Pictures from the Baltenland - pictures of no exhibition. Works by Wilhelm Herberholz and Heinz Becker from the 20th century. In: Westphalia and the Baltic States 1200 to 2000. Emschertal Museum, Herne 2007, pp. 121–131.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herberholz, Wilhelm, KA (training; teacher training) Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016), PDF
  2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on May 18, 2016
  3. ↑ Painter, Herberholz, Wilh. and Kaufmann, Arthur, K (= Kaiserswerth) Markt 64, in address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices of Benrath, Erkrath ... 1915 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  4. ↑ Fourteen - eighteen: Kaiserswerth was garrison for the "II. Replacement Battalion Infantry Regiment 53 ”. , on mein-kaiserswerth.de
  5. ^ Hermann Kassebaum: Sketches and pictures from the Baltic provinces . Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin, undated
  6. ↑ Thomas O. Hueglin: We All giggled: A Bourgeois Family Memoir . Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2011, ISBN 978-1-55458-262-4 , pp. 19 f. ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ painter: Herber wood, Willy, Garden Road 44, in the address book for the municipality of Dusseldorf and the mayors Benrath, Erkrath ... 1922 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  8. ↑ Gartenstrasse 44 E (Erben: Erbes) Herberholz, Wilhelm, painter, Professor 1 u. 2, in the address book for Düsseldorf city and surroundings 1932 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  9. ↑ See list of participants for the “Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944” in the portal treffpunkt-kunst.net - A total of 2405 individual artists took part in the eight annual exhibitions from 1937 to 1944, 1464 took part several times. It can be assumed that at the time at least the multiple exhibiting artists were fully aware of their role as exemplary, system-compliant Nazi artists and were using the associated privileges.
personal data
SURNAME Herberholz, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herberholz, Olof (nickname); Herberholz, Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1956
Place of death Oberstdorf