Wilhelm Schmurr

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Wilhelm Schmurr (born March 1, 1878 in Hagen , † February 16, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter and co-founder of the Sonderbund in Düsseldorf. His style of painting, which was characterized by a clear form of expression, was particularly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites , Symbolists and Realists.

Life

Childhood and youth

The artist was born on March 1, 1878 in Hagen as the son of Wilhelm Heinrich Schmurr. His mother Julie Auguste, b. Stüber, encouraged her son to want to become a painter. After the early death of their father, the family moved to Düsseldorf in 1892. Here he made his first drawings. In 1894 he began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter Janssen , Arthur Kampf and Eduard von Gebhardt (until 1904), most recently he was a master student of Claus-Meyer .

Artistic career

In 1904 and 1905 Wilhelm Schmurr received the Golden State Medal at exhibitions in Vienna and Salzburg and became a member of the newly founded "Kunstverband Düsseldorf". In 1905 he moved to Paris with his wife Emmy for a year . In 1907 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1908 the first joint appearance of the exhibition club "Weißer Nessel" took place in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle , which Schmurr had founded together with his fellow students Julius Bretz , Max Clarenbach , August Deusser and Walter Ophey . He joined the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf.

Schmurr received his first awards in Vienna and Salzburg, where his work “Beauty of Form” (lost) and the portrait of the painter Werner Heuser were shown. In 1907 he was given the Prussian Gold Medal for the portrait of his classmate and lifelong friend Max Clarenbach.

In 1909 he was represented as a founding member of the " Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler " at its exhibition in Düsseldorf, which also included works by Paul Cézanne , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh . The founding members of the Sonderbund split off and formed the association “Die Friedfertigen”. Further memberships followed: " Rheinische Sezession ", "Westfälische Sezession", " Westdeutscher Künstlerbund " and "Düsseldorfer Künstlergruppe" u. a. He captured the experiences of the First World War in seemingly melancholy depictions of beggars and barren landscape prospects.

From 1927 to 1947 Schmurr was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His students included the artist Werner Persy , who lived and worked in Trier, and the painters Karl Bruchhäuser , Antonius van der Pas and Alois Stettner . In 1938 his first demonstrable solo exhibition took place at the Düsseldorf Art Association ; he was also on the XXI. Venice Biennale represented. After the end of the war, the farmers in the fields inspired him to write numerous scenes of simple life and various still lifes with vegetables. As a member of the German Association of Artists , Schmurr personally took part in its annual exhibitions in 1956 in Düsseldorf and 1958 in Essen - his participation in Wiesbaden in early summer 1959 was already a posthumous tribute to the artist who died in February of that year.

Awards

In 1954 Schmurr was awarded the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize by the city of Hagen; In 1958 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, and was made an honorary member of the “Business Association of Visual Artists in the Düsseldorf District Association” and of the Malkasten Artists' Association.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Franz Große Perdekamp: The Westphalian painter Wilhelm Schmurr . (= Westphalian contemporary art, vol. 1), Recklinghausen 1941.
  • Johan Thorn Prikker, Wilhelm Schmurr, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, March 4 to April 8, 1956, Recklinghausen 1956
  • Otto Brües: Wilhelm Schmurr . In: Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian Art of the Present , Vol. 7, Recklinghausen 1958.
  • Düsseldorf painter and sculptor for the past 50 years . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, June 25 to August 1, 1965, Düsseldorf 1965
  • Wilhelm Schmurr, 1878–1959, on his 100th birthday , Galerie G. Paffrath, March – May 1978, Düsseldorf 1978
  • Wilhelm Schmurr on his 100th birthday , Städtische Galerie Schloß Oberhausen, October 21-26, 1978, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, January 14th to February 25th 1979, Oberhausen 1978
  • 18th exhibition of the West German Artist Association and special exhibition - winners of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize since 1947, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, June 2 to July 8, 1979, Hagen 1979
  • 96 artists from Westphalia , Westphalian State Museum, July 4 to September 5, 1982, Münster 1982
  • Magdalena M. Moeller: The special union. His prerequisites and beginnings in Düsseldorf . Bonn 1984
  • New Objectivity. Images in search of reality. Figurative painting of the twenties , Kunsthalle Mannheim October 9, 1994 to January 29, 1995, Mannheim 1994
  • Wilhelm Körs: Düsseldorf from the point of view of its painters . Düsseldorf 2006
  • Vera Bachmann, Bernd Ernsting: Everything big is quiet and serious. The painter Wilhelm Schmurr. Biography and catalog raisonné . Cologne 2009 (LETTER publications vol. 18)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Schmurr, Wilhelm ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 25, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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personal data
SURNAME Schmurr, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1959
Place of death Dusseldorf