Wilhelm Runze

Wilhelm Runze (born June 4, 1887 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 6, 1972 ibid) was a German painter.

life and work

Runze attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt , where he was a student of WA Beer, and then studied with Otto Seitz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He also continued his studies at the Colarossi Academy in Paris. Wilhelm Runze was initially a supporter of Romanticism , which was particularly evident in his landscape paintings in the period before 1920. Finally he changed his style to expressionism , but without falling into extremes.

Wilhelm Runze portrayed the mayors of Frankfurt, Ludwig Landmann and Walter Kolb , among others . Both portraits hang in the foyer in front of the council chamber in Frankfurt's Römer town hall . Very often he depicted the former Schirn and the Fahrtor in Frankfurt . His grave is in the Frankfurt-Sossenheim cemetery . In 2014, the Frankfurt-Sossenheim cultural and support group took over the care of the grave.

Web links

• Data from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
• Image: card player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 03737 Wilhelm Runze, register book 1884-1920 (accessed on 29/05/09)
2. ↑ Michael Zeller: Wilhelm Runze. 1887 - Frankfurt / Main - 1972. Student of WA Beer and O. Seitz and the academy . In: zeller.de . Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. 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. Retrieved May 29, 2009.