Wilhelm Morisse
Ludwig Wilhelm Martin Morisse (born October 16, 1870 in Brake (Unterweser) , † September 22, 1936 in Oldenburg ) was a German painter and church restorer.
Life
Wilhelm Morisse was a son of the teacher Gerhard Wilhelm Heinrich Morisse (1842-1904), and his wife Sophie Katharine Wilhelmine Morisse, geb. Ruschmann (1847-1935). Since his father, who ran a private school in Zwischenahn , could not finance studies at the art academy in Dresden, Wilhelm Morisse was apprenticed to a house painter in 1886 after graduating from secondary school. In 1889 he was able to switch to Professor Hermann Schaper in Hanover . Schaper had specialized in the painting of public and sacred buildings in the historical style and trained Morisse in this field, with designs for glass windows and mosaics also being part of the training. From 1895 Morisse worked for four years in the painter's hall of the court theater in Oldenburg under Wilhelm Mohrmann , after which he received another job with Schaper in Hanover, which he held for nine years. In 1904 Morisse returned to Oldenburg, who in the meantime had also made study trips to Italy , Belgium and Holland and had meanwhile also worked in Ratzeburg, Schleswig, Lübeck, Mölln, Duderstadt and Blankenese. Mainly he was entrusted with the uncovering and restoration of pre-Reformation ceiling paintings, for example in the Johanneskirche in Bad Zwischenahn, but also in Edewecht , in the Gertrudenkapelle in Oldenburg, in the Stadtkirche in Varel , in the Alexanderkirche Wildeshausen , Sengwarden and Tharau . His work earned him a silver medal in 1911 and a gold medal for science and art in 1912.
In addition to this restoration work, Morisse also created his own drawings and paintings. He exhibited regularly at the Oldenburger Kunstverein. From 1904 he belonged to the Oldenburger Künstlerbund, whose secretary he was until 1918. He was also a member of the Association of Northwest German Artists and the German Werkbund .
From 1914 Wilhelm Morisse accompanied the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment No. 91 as a regimental painter . As a painting war correspondent, he ended up in East Prussia , Galicia , Russia and Belgium during the First World War . After the war, according to his suggestions, a memorial hall for the fallen of the community was set up in the free-standing bell tower of the St. Ulrichs Church in Rastede .
With his wife Luise, geb. Pape, from Bremen , whom he married in 1917, traveled to China in 1924 and 1926 , from where he brought watercolors with him to Germany. Due to a paralysis, Morisse was dependent on a wheelchair for the last ten years of his life. Morisse, who in the period after the First World War, when there was no money for the restoration of churches, now mainly painted landscapes, became a member of the NSDAP . Nevertheless, a street in Rastede, where he lived for many years, was later named after him. Wilhelm Morisse died in 1936 in a hospital in Oldenburg and was buried in the Gertrudenfriedhof there.
Publicly owned works
In the State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg, there is Morisse's painting Marschlandschaft in Butjadingen from around 1924.
literature
- José Kastler: Morisse, Wilhelm. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 475-476 ( online ).
- Manfred Holze (ed.), Wilhelm Morisse. Lovable memories and pictorial documents 1870 - 1936 - 1986 , Oldenburg 1986, ISBN 3-920557-64-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.alt-oldenburg.de/plaetze/gertrudenkirchhof/gertrudenfriedhof--seite-3-von-5.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.nwzonline.de/Region/Kreis/Ammerland/Rastede/Artikel/2049785/70+Quadratmeter+wie+ein+Paradies.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.maggieblanck.com/Germany/FarmAnimals.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morisse, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morisse, Ludwig Wilhelm Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and church restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brake (Lower Weser) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1936 |
| Place of death | Oldenburg (Oldb) |