Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann

Vannes in Brittany, oil painting from 1899

Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann (born March 7, 1861 in Zurich ; † March 9, 1932 there ) was a Swiss landscape painter .

Life

Interior of San Marco, watercolor from 1898

Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann was one of the sons of the Swiss doctor Friedrich Lehmann (1825–1905) from Frankenthal (Palatinate ) and his wife Friederike, nee. Spatz, daughter of the architect Johann Bernhard Spatz . He first studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Zurich from 1879 to 1883 and worked for a time as a construction manager before turning to painting. He studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris , at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

Lehmann, who was friends with Arnold Böcklin , became a member of the Munich Secession and was its secretary in 1906. From 1901 to 1903 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission and in 1903 its vice-president. His reputation as an artist is documented by numerous public commissions for paintings and decorations in public buildings in Switzerland. From 1923 to 1931 he taught architecture and landscape painting at the ETH Zurich .

In addition to his numerous landscapes in Switzerland, mainly landscapes from northern France (1895–1899), from the Fraueninsel in the Chiemsee (1903–1905) and on the island of Sylt (1926–1928) were created due to long journeys . As an author, he wrote the biography of his Zurich architecture professor Ernst Georg Gladbach and other biographies of artist colleagues such as Konrad Grob , Richard Kissling , Rudolf Koller , Adolf Stäbli and Albert Welti . The painter Adolf Kleemann was his son-in-law. The bacteriologist Karl Bernhard Lehmann and the publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann were his brothers.

Works (selection)

Fonts

Professor Ernst Gladbach. In: Neujahrsblatt der Kunstgesellschaft in Zürich for 1898. pp. 1–29 ( Wikisource )
Richard Kissling. In: New Year's Journal of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft. 1920 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

Publicly owned painting

WL Lehmann's fresco Zurich around 1650 in the Zurich town hall

Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau
Art Museum Basel
State Museums of Berlin (National Gallery)
Bundeshaus (Bern)
Museo d'Arte, Lugano
New Pinakothek gallery
State Graphic Collection Munich
City house Zurich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Kunsthaus Zurich

literature

Lehmann, Wilhelm Ludwig . 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. 583 .
Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 204 .
Tapan Bhattacharya: Lehmann, Wilhelm Ludwig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Sabine Hügli Vass: Lehmann, Wilhelm Ludwig. In: Sikart

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann - Sources and full texts

Works by WL Lehmann on artnet

Individual evidence

^ Entry in 1887 in the register of the Munich Academy.
^ Collection Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann. Pinakothek Collection, accessed on November 22, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lehmann, Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1932
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Entry in 1887 in the register of the Munich Academy.

[2] Collection Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann. Pinakothek Collection, accessed on November 22, 2019 .