Wilhelm Tegtmeier

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Wilhelm Tegtmeier (born January 9, 1895 in Barmen , now Wuppertal , † November 6, 1968 in Nethen ) was a German painter .

Life

Tegtmeier spent part of his youth in Leer , where he attended high school. It was also shaped by experiences in the Wandervogel movement. After graduating from high school in 1913 at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück , Tegtmeier hired on a sailing ship as an ordinary seaman and as a cabin boy. On his travels he circumnavigated Cape Horn twice . During the First World War he was used on the Eastern and Western Fronts. From 1918 he studied as a pupil of Julius Wohlers and Ewald Dülberg at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and at the same time ancient Greek at the University of Hamburg .

On mediation by Franz Radziwill , Tegtmeier made friends with the art historians Rosa Schapire and Wilhelm Niemeyer . In 1921, the couple published Tegtmeier's woodcuts in their art magazine Kündung - Eine Zeitschrift für Kunst , then regarded as Hamburg's most important expressionist magazine . As a result, he published further cuts in the magazine Die Aktion .

In 1919 Tegtmeier also met Heinrich Vogeler and Otto Tetjus Tügel and made a woodcut portrait of Heinrich Vogeler.

In 1923/24 he worked as an art teacher at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover , but then gave up the teaching position and since then has only worked as a freelance artist. At this time he turned away from the expressionist style of representation and towards the New Objectivity . He also dealt intensively with the technique and themes of old German painting by Matthias Grünewald and Albrecht Dürer .

In 1936 he was appointed to the Nordic Art Academy in Bremen . According to his testimony as head of the general department for painting in a party proceeding against the director of the art college in 1942, Tegtmeier received the title of professor and in the following year moved to the new department for art education that had been created by restructuring .

After 1945 Tegtmeier went on study trips on fish steamers on the North Sea . From 1950 he lived and worked in the Rastede district of Nethen, where he bought a house. There he devoted himself again intensively to painting and above all to graphics. He also received numerous commissions for sgraffito and mosaic designs.

In 1956, Tegtmeier acquired the captain's patent and produced a number of large-format woodcuts with a maritime theme.

With his extensive work of different styles and themes, Tegtmeier is considered, alongside Franz Radziwill, to be probably the most important painter of realism in the Oldenburger Land .

Works

Wall mosaic "Poseidon" on the Ölhafendamm in Wilhelmshaven . Tegtmeier's signature on the right edge.
  • Sermon on the Mount. 1919, woodcut
  • Lunapark (cycle big city). 1920, woodcut
  • Delft. 1923, woodcut on linen
  • Venus in the dunes. (?), 1924, woodcut
  • Self-portrait (my reflection). 1928, oil / tempera on chipboard
  • Count Anton Günther on horseback. 1959, wall mosaic
  • Fortuna . 1964, wall mosaic in Wilhelmshaven
  • Poseidon . 1968, wall mosaic in Wilhelmshaven

Printed works

  • Wilhelm Tegtmeier (1895–1968). The graphic work. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, April 6 - May 7, 1972 / Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, North German State Museum, November 5, 1971 - January 2, 1972. [Catalog editing and editing: Gerhard Kaufmann]. Museum of Cultural History, Osnabrück 1972.
  • Wilhelm Tegtmeier. Painter and graphic artist. [Self-published] Gertrud Tegtmeier, Nethen (Oldbg.) 1972.
  • Map of Oldenburg. Designed and drawn by W. Tegtmeier for the Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte und Heimatkunde. Dieckmann, Oldenburg 1947.

literature


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Osnabrück art and artists. 1900-1970 , by Hanns-Gerd Rabe, Kommissionsverlag H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück, 1974.
  2. ↑ Bremen State Archives, 3 - 4.a. No. 1075 [45], file concerning the proceedings against Professor Horn, Nordic Art College. 1942. Octbr. 20.-
  3. ^ Jörg Michael Henneberg: Tappenbeck, Karl Friedrich Johann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 740 ( online ).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Tegtmeier. In: Hans-Joachim Manske and Birgit Neumann-Dietzsch (eds.): “Degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism. On the occasion of the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Bremen from September 6 to November 15, 2009. Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938795-10-1 , p. 135.

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personal data
SURNAME Tegtmeier, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1968
Place of death Nethen