Wilhelm Süs

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Wilhelm Süs (born June 30, 1861 in Düsseldorf , † December 6, 1933 in Mannheim ) was a painter, graphic artist and ceramist . Together with Hans Thoma , he founded the State Majolica Manufactory Karlsruhe .

Life

Handle basket, majolica, "forget-me-not collection", design: Wilhelm Süs, Großherzogliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe, 1909

Wilhelm Süs was the son of the animal painter Konrad Gustav Süs . From 1879 to 1884 he was a student at the Academy in Düsseldorf with Hugo Crola , Peter Janssen the Elder and Eduard von Gebhardt and in Dresden with Leon Pohle . Around 1891, Süs, at the same time as the painters Ernst Tode and August Schlüter , had a studio directly opposite the building of the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the Eiskellerberg . After a short stay in Munich, he settled in Frankfurt am Main, where he married Amalie Ducca in 1891, but moved to Kronberg im Taunus in 1893 at the suggestion of Thomas . Here he founded the "Ceramic Atelier Kronberg am Taunus" in 1898 within the Kronberg painter's colony , together with the engineer Karl Vogel and the porcelain painter Wilhelm Becker. In 1901 the studio was relocated to Karlsruhe and the "Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory" was founded with private funds from the Grand Duke , of which he was the artistic and technical director.

He became known through the "forget-me-not collection" which mainly comprised bowls. From 1914 to 1917 he was a teacher at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts . In 1917 he was appointed director of the Gemäldegalerie in Mannheim and turned back to painting.

There are paintings by him in the Badische Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , in the Kunsthalle Mannheim and in the Mannheim Palace .

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 32: Stephens-Theodotos. Seemann, Leipzig 1978, p. 276.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Civil status of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. Wedding vows: painter Peter Wilh. August Süs u. Amalie Ducca, ehl Frankfurt a. M. in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 194) of July 20, 1891 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
personal data
SURNAME Sweet, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Süs, Peter Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1933
Place of death Mannheim