Wilhelm Schnarrenberger

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Wilhelm Schnarrenberger (born June 30, 1892 in Buchen im Odenwald , † April 12, 1966 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter .

Life

Wilhelm Schnarrenberger is one of the representatives of the New Objectivity . He is the son of a high school professor and graduated from high school in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 he attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich and studied architecture in Munich at the same time . From 1913 he was a student of the commercial artist Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and a friend of Karl Rössing . In 1918 he was drafted into service in the First World War. In 1919 he worked for the magazine Der Weg and from 1920 for the magazines Wieland and Simplicissimus . Schnarrenberger taught from 1921 to 1933 at the Baden State Art School .

In 1924 he was a founding member of the ORNA workshops for advertising and interior decoration . Under the National Socialists his art was frowned upon and was branded as degenerate and banned in 1937 , after he was no longer allowed to teach since 1933. In 1933 he moved with his family to Berlin, where he tried to earn a living as a freelance commercial artist. Anticipating the impending war, he moved to Lenzkirch in the Black Forest in 1938, where he and his wife Melitta (1909–1996) opened a small holiday pension. Here he discovered the still life theme, which was so important for his later work . In 1947 he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe .

In 1962 he received the Hans Thoma State Prize for his artistic work .

Schnarrenberger always attached great importance to the craftsmanship of his students, so they first had to learn to draw architectural buildings and everyday objects before he had them painted.

Wilhelm Schnarrenberger was the older brother of Major General of the Wehrmacht Ernst Emil Schnarrenberger (born July 27, 1893 in Buchen im Odenwald ; † June 10, 1966 in Bad Mergentheim ).

Works (excerpt)

  • Characters. Six woodcuts, 1920, Goltzverlag Munich (= Graphische Capriccios, opus II)
  • The children's room (formerly a portrait of two boys), 1924/25
  • The Friends, 1924
  • Old men go for a walk, 1922
  • Group picture
  • studio
  • Sisters
  • study
  • Portrait of the mother, 1923

literature

  • Wilhelm Schnarrenberger - painting between poetry and prose, Helga Walter-Dressler
  • Gerd Presler: Professor Wilhelm Schnarrenberger on his 90th birthday on February 12, 1982
  • Gerd Presler: Splendor and misery of the 20s. The painting of the New Objectivity, Dumont Tb 285, Cologne 1992, pp. 16,34,66,155,186, illustrations pp. 18, 75. ISBN 3-7701-2825-7
  • From the poetry of things. Wilhelm Schnarrenberger (1892–1966). Painting, drawings, lithographs, woodcuts and linocuts, advertising graphics 1908–1964. Published by the city of Buchen (Odenwald) on its 100th birthday in 1992, Buchen 1992 ( ISBN 3-87516-532-2 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrid Stilijanov-Nedo: Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, 1892–1966 . Self-published by Ingrid Nedo, o.A. 1982, p. 121.
  2. ^ Egbert Koolman (ed.): Literarisch-Geselliger Verein zu Oldenburg 1839–1989: Festschrift . Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg in Oldenburg 1989, ISBN 3-87358-341-0 , p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Schnarrenberger, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Beeches in the Odenwald
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1966
Place of death Karlsruhe