Wilhelm Sievers (painter)
Wilhelm Sievers (born December 26, 1870 in Hanover ; died after 1947 ) was a German art , decoration and church painter , art teacher and restorer .
Life
Wilhelm Sievers moved from Groß-Buchholz to Hanover in 1885 . There he was temporarily based in the house at Ubbenstraße 12 before moving to Seilerstraße 11 in 1886 . The address book of the city of Hanover for the year 1899 recorded Sievers as a decorative painter, working for the Gebrüder Sievers company based at Höltystraße 3 . While Sievers was still listed as a decorative painter and member of the guild at the address there in 1909, the address book from 1920 listed him as a master painter, but now at Höltystraße 4 .
Sievers worked from 1910 to 1923 as a part-time teacher for materials science at the Hanover School of Applied Arts . From 1920 to 1921 he worked for the magazine Kunst und Praxis for the decorative painter. Lower Saxony painters' association .
In 1947, Sievers moved from Hanover without giving a new address , according to the residents' registration files preserved in the Hanover City Archives .
Works (selection)
- 1897 or earlier: Decorative painting of the garrison church in Torn , for Th. Maßler u. Haller supplied all of the interior furnishings
- 1907: New painting of the baptistery of the Luther Church in the northern part of Hanover; not preserved (later painted uniformly yellow)
- before 1910: Paintings of garrison churches in Thorn , Graudenz , Oldenburg (Oldb) and Braunschweig
- before 1910: Paintings of churches in Harburg , Immensen , Capern , Eißendorf , Rüper , Empelde , Schwiechelt , Heimfeld , Woltorf , Adenstedt , Mehrum , Paese , Eversten , Briesenitz in what was then West Prussia and Dyck in West Prussia
- before 1910: painting of cemetery chapels in Hanover , Quakenbrück and Peine
- 1910: Uncovering of the vault paintings combined with a reconstructing new version of decorative elements in the church of Loxstedt
- 1911–1912: painting of the church in Bodenteich
- no date determined so far: design of a coffered ceiling with decorative painting
- 1926: Vault painting in the church of Barskamp
- 1929: Uncovering and possibly restoration of a wall painting in the church in Borstel
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Stefanie Lindemeier: The performing arts and church painters , as well as short biography Sievers, Wilhelm , in this: Studies on the restoration history of medieval vaults - and wall paintings in the area of today's Lower Saxony: Representation of historical Methods, techniques and materials , dissertation 2009 at the University of Fine Arts Dresden, Volume 2 (text volume), passim , v. a. Pp. 322-323; Digitized version of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
- ^ V .: The new garrison church in Thorn , in: Thorner Presse , 15th year, no. 297 of December 21, 1897; as a searchable PDF document from the Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
- ↑ Stefan Amt : The Planning and Building History of the Luther Church , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 52 (1998), pp. 261–288; here: p. 262 and note 58 on p. 278; as a PDF document from bhb-hannover.de
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SURNAME | Sievers, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and church painter, art teacher and restorer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1870 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1947 |