Wilhelm Ritter (painter)
Wilhelm Ritter (born August 24, 1860 in Nuremberg , † 1948 in Eschenbach near Hersbruck , Middle Franconia) was a German painter and etcher .
Life
Wilhelm Ritter is the second-born son of the Nuremberg painter Lorenz Ritter and learned painting through him and his uncle, Paul Ritter . He studied painting and drawing at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts with Friedrich Carl Mayer and Carl Jäger, and the art academies in Munich and Karlsruhe with Gustav Schönleber . With his teacher in Karlsruhe, he made several study trips to Northern Italy. Later he traveled to the Netherlands, Austria and South Tyrol, among others.
Ritter carried on the historicist-late romantic style of his father and his uncle. He painted in oils and watercolors. He was best known for his 10 × 15 meter monumental painting “The Nuremberg Market Place”, which adorned the stand of the Nuremberg-Fürth Industri at the 1893 World Exhibition in Chicago . His father Lorenz made an engraving based on the picture. Wilhelm Ritter himself traveled to the world exhibition in Chicago. In his late work he shows that he is stylistically influenced by impressionism .
Two of his brothers, both of whom died young, Paul Ritter the Younger (1859–1888) and Fritz Ritter (1868–1888), were also active as artists.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of his uncle Paul, he and the artist family were honored in 2007 by the painting and sculpture collection of the city of Nuremberg with an exhibition in the Museum of Industrial Culture.
literature
- Ursula Kubach-Reutter (Ed.): Late Romanticism in the Industrial Age. The Nuremberg artist family Ritter. (Exhibition catalog of the collection of paintings and sculptures of the Nuremberg Museums in the Museum of Industrial Culture), Nuremberg City Museums, Nuremberg 2007.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Ritter in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ritter, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |
| Place of death | Eschenbach near Hersbruck , Middle Franconia |