Wilhelm Schott (painter)

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Frequent motif: the oil mill near Motzenrode

Wilhelm Schott (born November 7, 1893 in Kassel , † February 9, 1990 in Eschwege ) was a German painter .

As the son of a Kassel file cutter , Wilhelm Schott completed his training as a teacher at the royal Prussian preparation institute in Kassel from 1908, followed by a visit to the Eschwege teachers' seminar.

After being wounded in the war, he found his first job in 1916 and was transferred to Röhrda as a village school teacher from 1918 , followed by a five-year position at the village school in Schwebda in 1928 . From 1933 to 1949 he worked as a drawing teacher at the Alexander von Humboldt School in Eschwege (at that time the “Citizens' School”).

In the idyllic Ringgau town of Röhrda, Schott discovered his passion for landscape painting and, in addition to town and town views, he specialized in the artistically perfect representation of water mills. By the end of his life he created over 150 mill portraits. 1358 of his works are now listed.

literature

  • Karl Kollmann, Günter Naujok and Wiegand Thomas: Wilhelm Schott on the 100th birthday. Wilhelm Peter Schott-an appreciation of life and work . Issue 9, series of publications by Sparkasse Werra-Meißner, Eschwege 1993
  • Rolf Hochhuth (ed.): In a cool ground ... pictures of missing mills by Wilhelm Schott . Winkler, Munich 1978, p. 80 .
  • Local painter Wilhelm Schott 65 years . In: Werratalverein Eschwege (ed.): The Werraland . 10th year, booklet 4. Eschwege 1958, p. 61 .
  • Hanno Beck: painter of mills and landscapes. Wilhelm Schott on his 75th birthday . In: Werratalverein Eschwege (ed.): The Werraland . 20th year, issue 4. Eschwege 1958, p. 66-67 .
  • Wilhelm Kirchmeier: Disappearing Romanticism. To the Hessian mill pictures by the painter Wilhelm Schott, Eschwege . In: The tower keeper. German monthly books . Issue 11, August 1935, p. 431-434 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SFF. Wilhelm Schott † - master mill painter. In: Eschweger Allgemeine from February 15, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1990
Place of death Eschwege