Wilhelm Holzhausen

Wilhelm Holzhausen (born August 25, 1907 in Ohligs , † February 27, 1988 in Bad Bodendorf ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Wilhelm Holzhausen grew up in a middle-class family in Haan . Against the wishes of his parents, he studied painting and graphics at the Cologne Werkschulen with Richard Seewald from 1927 to 1930 . After completing his studies, he volunteered for a church painter in Krefeld from 1930 to 1931 and joined left-wing Krefeld artist groups. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 Holzhausen left Germany and went along with his friend, painter Walter Icks to Mallorca . There he met his future wife Emmy. In 1934 he returned to Germany and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 . In 1938 two of his paintings were confiscated as degenerate art in the Krefeld Museum . During the war in 1943 his apartment in Krefeld was destroyed and most of his early works were destroyed. Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released at the end of 1945.

In 1948 Holzhausen was appointed to teach figurative drawing at the then Werkkunstschule Krefeld . In 1970 he received the chair for life drawing , illustration and artistic anatomy at the newly founded Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences (today: Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences ). Many trips, especially to the Mediterranean, but also to Nepal , Colorado , Tunisia and Israel gave him artistic inspiration. After his retirement in 1972, he moved to Bad Bodendorf in the Ahr valley . Here he set up a studio .

He joined the Are-Gilde based in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and was given the opportunity to exchange ideas with other artists and to exhibit his works. The Small Group was formed within the Are Guild in 1979 , and he became its artistic mentor . The small group included the painter Ursula Krupp-Deman , the painter Haennes Meyer, the draftsman Hans Runte, the painter Angèle de Couronne and the painter Dorothea Schneider. For the members of this group, Holzhausen was the "professor" who gave them drawing lessons in his Bad Bodendorfer studio, among other things, and thus ensured that they continued to develop artistically.

Holzhausen's pictures are characterized by a clear will to form and a calm picture structure. The human figure in the most varied of appearances is at the center of his pictures. The limit to abstraction is seldom exceeded. He experimented with various techniques, including the monotype and other graphic processes. His main work, however, consists of a large number of oil paintings and a large bundle of drawings. Holzhausen wrote in a self-written short version of his curriculum vitae: “Strict picture structure with a figuration reminiscent of the classical are the characteristics of my pictures, whereby the colors predominantly move on a scale of earth colors. Mastery of form, localization and static design should make the pictorial body stable. ” The estate is maintained by the Wilhelm Holzhausen Foundation at the Kunst und Krefeld association .

Exhibitions

1947 first post-war exhibition : first Bergische art exhibition in Solingen

1971 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld

various solo and group exhibitions

1980 Rolandseck , Galerie Rolandshof with the small group

1982 Bonn , electoral gardener's house , with the small group painting graphics

1982 Koblenz , Galerie Jean-Marc Laïk with the small group

1983 Baden-Baden , European Magician Congress in the Kurhaus with the small group

1990 memorial exhibition in Andernach

1999 Memorial exhibition of the Krefelder Kunstverein in Krefeld

Works in public

His works are in museums, etc. a. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, and private collections.

literature

Wilhelm Holzhausen: Out and about with a drawing pad and pen. Galerie Christian Fochem, Krefeld 1991, ISBN 3-928668-12-9 .
Bernhard Kreutzberg: The painter Prof. Wilhelm Holzhausen, the wise man of the Are-Künstlergile. In: District of Ahrweiler (Ed.): District of Ahrweiler. Heimatjahrbuch 1985. Weiss-Druck, Monschau 1985, ISSN No. 0342/5827, pp. 97-99.
Andreas Holzhausen, Klaus Holzhausen: In Memoriam Wilhelm Holzhausen (1907-1988). In: Verein für Heimatkunde in Krefeld (ed.): Die Heimat, Krefelder Jahrbuch, year 71. Joh. Van Acken, Krefeld 2000, ISSN No. 0342-5185, pp. 41–45.
Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences (ed.): Relay run 1904 to 2004. Design from Krefeld. Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld, 2004, pp. 164–165.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Holzhausen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Holzhausen, Prof. Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solingen-Ohligs
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1988
Place of death	Bad Bodendorf