Wilhelm Techmeier

Wilhelm Techmeier (born January 2, 1895 in Plau am See , † June 15, 1971 in Brasília ) was a German-Brazilian painter .

Life

Techmeier was the son of the sergeant Friedrich Techmeier and his wife Maria (née Bull).

He received his first artistic training in Lübeck from the painter Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg . After a war mission in 1917/18 on the Russian front, where he was seriously wounded, he moved to Düsseldorf in March 1919 to the academy there as a student of Willy Spatz and Eduard Gebhardt . As a student in Düsseldorf he was a member of the local artists' association Malkasten until 1926 . After completing his studies, several study trips followed, which took him to Amsterdam and Paris, among others. Techmeier founded his own atelier in Düsseldorf in 1928. Despite some success with the sale of genre paintings and several exhibitions, it was an economically difficult time for visual artists. At the end of 1929 Techmeier emigrated to Brazil with his bride Marianne, née Kochs.

In Porto Alegre, with a high percentage of the population of German descent, he was able to support his small family with a few portraits. Increasingly impressed by the natural beauties of Brazil, he began to paint landscape paintings. Through contacts in Düsseldorf he was able to exhibit there several times in the early 1930s.

After a brief stint in Rio de Janeiro , Techmeier moved to the new capital Brasilia in 1964, where he accepted a professorship for drawing and graphics at the local university. He died there in 1971 at the age of 76.

Works

• Young woman with a headscarf (sold 1999)
• Elderly gentleman with a glass of wine , 49 × 39 cm (auctioned in England in 2000)
• In the cloister (sold 2001)
• Portrait of a laughing Fischerhude peasant woman (sold 2002)
• In the notary's office (sold 2005/06)
• Mother with sleeping child (sold in 2006, again in 2012)
• In the tavern (sold 2010)
• Portrait of a Woman (sold 2010)
• Worpswede country woman with hood , 1923, 24 × 19 cm
• Baltic waves near Brunshaupten , private property
• Portrait of Presidente Getúlio Vargas , 1930/32
• Portrait of Marechal Cândido Rondon , 1953, Palácio do Planalto in Brasília

literature

• Techmeier, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 498 .
• Techmeier, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 424 .

Web links

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