Wilhelm Reuter (painter, 1859)

Wilhelm Reuter (born September 26, 1859 in Karlsruhe , † November 17, 1937 in Nuremberg ) was a German genre , portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Reuter first studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and at the Karlsruhe Art School under Ferdinand Keller . During his studies in 1883 he became a member of the Germania fraternity (now Teutonia ), and in 1885 a connoisseur . In 1886 he lived at Leopoldstrasse 8 in Karlsruhe. Study trips abroad followed. From 1894 to 1896 he lived in Pforzheim , and from 1899 he worked in Bamberg . Afterwards he worked as a wall painter in Franconian Switzerland and Nuremberg . From 1906 to 1932 lived in Nuremberg. He was a member of the Albrecht Dürer Association and the Nuremberg Art Cooperative .

Reuter was awarded the medal for art.

Works (selection)
Reuter painted allegories, portraits, landscapes and genre pictures.

• Hagar and Ismael could be seen in the 58th anniversary exhibition of the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin from May to October 1886.
• History picture The 400 Pforzheimer at the battle of Wimpfen in the town hall of Pforzheim
• In May

literature

• Dressler's art manual . Edition 1911/12, p. 521.
• Reuter, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 200 .
• Reuter, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 3.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 575-576.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} anniversary exhibition of the Kgl. Academy of Arts in the state exhibition building in Berlin . Verlagscomtoir, Berlin 1886, p. 173 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).