Wilhelm Schmetz
Wilhelm Schmetz (born March 14, 1890 in Düsseldorf , † August 20, 1938 in Aachen ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
Originally rooted in the Aachen area - the family comes from Herzogenrath - Wilhelm Schmetz spent his youth and studies in the Rhenish art city of Düsseldorf , where he attended the art academy . His works were presented in the context of exhibitions by the artist groups Das Junge Rheinland , Rheingruppe and Rheinische Sezession (see list of artists who took part in the exhibitions of the Junge Rheinland, the Rheingruppe and the Rheinische Sezession between 1919 and 1933).
In 1918 he returned to Aachen, where he lived with his partner, the painter Dora Schmetz-Diehl , until his death. Wilhelm Schmetz was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Schmetz taught art at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen .
Works (selection)
Schmetz was a landscape painter, he painted watercolors and also tried his hand at oil painting ; he cultivated the still life as an occasional by-product.
His many study trips took him to the North Sea from Flanders to Sylt and the north German plain. Here he found the motifs that suited him: the strongly moving or calmly shimmering lake, but especially the immeasurable depth of Rembrandt's flat horizons in the unlimited expanse of the plain, over which he then stretched a clay sky.
His artistic models were the Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century and the French plein air painting of the 19th century. Schmetz particularly appreciated the Englishman John Constable , whose light-flooded colors he got to know at the Brussels World's Fair.
Web links
- Short biography on kunst-und-Kultur.de
- List of artists who took part in the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland, the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession between 1919 and 1933
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Schmetz, Wilhelm ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed on January 24, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmetz, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1938 |
| Place of death | Aachen |