Wilhelm Kreuder
Wilhelm Kreuder (born December 14, 1904 in Zeitz , † April 6, 1974 in Mörfelden-Walldorf ) was a German painter and art teacher.
Life
After the secondary school in Offenbach am Main , which his brother Ernst Kreuder (writer / Büchner Prize 1953) also attended, he first did an internship as a forest eleve, although he felt drawn to the fine arts from an early age. His years of traveling took him via Hamburg to Vienna, where he began studying art at the Vienna Art Academy . From 1932 to 1938 he made extensive trips to the Orient (Balkans, Turkey, Persia and Afghanistan).
In 1935 Wilhelm Kreuder was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture, which was dominated by the National Socialists, because of "degenerate art" and went into internal emigration . Since he publicly condemned the Jewish pogrom as bestial, he was arrested in 1938 and forced to undergo political re-education. When the war broke out, he was finally transferred to a penal company in Mannheim.
He resumed his artistic work shortly after the Second World War. Numerous portraits were made for a living. As a course instructor at the Mörfelden-Walldorf Adult Education Center, he also made a name for himself as an art teacher. On his 90th birthday, the city of Mörfelden-Walldorf posthumously dedicated an extensive and internationally acclaimed memorial exhibition to him. Nevertheless, Wilhelm Kreuder is almost forgotten today.
source
- Estate administration: Claudia Kreuder-Wächter
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| SURNAME | Kreuder, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Time |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1974 |
| Place of death | Moerfelden-Walldorf |