Wilhelm Lefèbre

Albert Wilhelm Lefèbre (born December 6, 1873 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 26, 1974 in Meran ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Lefèbre studied from 1889 to 1895 at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Heinrich Lauenstein , Peter Janssen and Arthur Kampf . From 1895 to 1898 he continued his studies in Munich at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Carl von Marr . He then went to Paris and attended the Académie Julian until 1903 .

The time in Paris was decisive for his artistic development. He got to know Hans Purrmann , Oskar Moll , Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso , among others , and worked intensively on his own visual language. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , he moved back to Frankfurt am Main. Works from this period depict, among other things, nature over the course of the seasons. For the Senckenberg Museum, he painted the surroundings and backgrounds in dioramas for the exhibition department . Lefèbre lived in Frankfurt until 1966. Then he moved to his daughter in Merano. There he died at the age of 101.

Works in museums

Washerwomen on a leash , oil on canvas, 45 × 55 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt am Main

Exhibitions

1907: Paris Autumn Salon Paul Gauguin Memorial Exhibition (etchings, Wilhelm Lefebvre)
May 1908: at Georges Petit, Paris (several pictures and etchings, Wilhelm Lefèbre)
1911: 13th annual exhibition of the Frankfurt artists , Frankfurter Kunstverein
1976: Galerie im Rahmhof, Frankfurt am Main
2009: Magic of the moment - sketches and studies in oil , Museum Giersch , Frankfurt am Main

literature

Lefèbre, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 558 .
Nature and museum. Volume 105-106, Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, pp. 59 ff.
Patrizia Moritz: Wilhelm Lefèbre. The graphic work. 1996 (Master's thesis, Frankfurt am Main).

Individual evidence

^ Karl Eugen Schmidt: The Paris autumn salon . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1907, p. 49 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Karl Eugen Schmidt: Paris letter . In: Art Chronicle . New series, Volume 19, No. 24 . EA Seemann, Leipzig May 1908, Sp. 401–406 , here p. 404 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lefèbre, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lefèbre, Albert Wilhelm (full name); Lefebvre, Albert Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1974
Place of death	Meran

[1] Karl Eugen Schmidt: The Paris autumn salon . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1907, p. 49 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Karl Eugen Schmidt: Paris letter . In: Art Chronicle . New series, Volume 19, No. 24 . EA Seemann, Leipzig May 1908, Sp. 401–406 , here p. 404 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).