Wilhelm Velten

Wilhelm Velten (born June 11, 1847 in Saint Petersburg , † 1929 in Munich ) was a Russian - German painter .

Life

Wilhelm Velten - hunting party in front of the castle

Wilhelm Velten was a student at the Art Academy in Saint Petersburg from 1867 to 1869 .

To continue his studies, he moved to Munich in 1870, where he worked and lived for most of his life. He switched to the Royal Academy in Munich and became a student of Wilhelm von Diez . After completing his studies, Velten also became a professor there. His students included Johann Matthias Neithardt (1816–1886) and William Preston Phelps (1848–1917).

His genre were depictions of courtly hunting scenes as well as village and soldier life. His paintings are exhibited in the following museums:

Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, USA
New Pinakothek , Munich
Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus , Munich
National Gallery Prague , Czech Republic

Over 500 works are listed online.

He was a member of the Munich Secession and from around 1890 of the Dachau artists' colony .

Exhibited works (selection)

Neue Pinakothek, Munich: At the Tränke (around 1890/1900) and ride out to the hunt (around 1890/1900)
Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, USA: Rendez-vous de Chasse or The Gathering of the Hunt and The Case
Georg Schäfer Museum , Schweinfurt

Auctioned works (selection)

His works achieve an average auction price of € 5000. The highest bid was around € 25,000.

Van Ham Art Auctions , Cologne: [1]
Kunsthaus Lempertz , Berlin: [2]
Dorotheum , Vienna: [3]
Hampel Fine Arts Auctions, Munich: [4]
Art auction house Schloss Ahlden , Ahlden: [5]
Christie's : [6]

Trivia

In 1926 there was a collective exhibition of Wilhelm Velten's works in the Old National Museum in Munich through the Munich Artists' Cooperative.

A street in Dachau is named after him.

The Dorfschenke factory (around 1900, oil on wood) was returned to Germany from the Soviet Union in 1958 ; it was there in the custody of the State Hermitage , Leningrad. The picture was probably confiscated in 1945 from Hummelshain Castle / Kahla (Thuringia).

literature

Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century: Contribution to Art History , 2 volumes, Dresden 1891–1898
Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : General artist lexicon. Life u. Works by the most famous visual artists , Literary Institute, Frankfurt, 1922
Horst Ludwig: Munich painter in the 19th century: Bd.Saffer-Zwengauer , Bruckmann, 1983
Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker , Hans Vollmer : General register: Register for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present and the General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Artistic Professions , Saur, 1997
Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner , Klaus Kiermeier: Dachau painter: the artist's place Dachau from 1801-1946 , publishing house "Bayerland", 1981
Horst Ludwig: From Adam to Zügel: Pictures from a South German private collection , Hirmer, 2001

Web links

Oxford Art Online - Benezit Dictionary of Arstists:
Catalog of works

Individual evidence

^ Adolf Rosenberg: The Munich School of Painting in its development since 1871 . Printed for the Kunstverein zu Hannover, 1887 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2017]).
^ Neithardt, Johann Matthias | Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
^ Phelps, William Preston | Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
↑ Wilhelm Velten 1847-1929 / mageda - Painting and painting database. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
^ Wilhelm Velten | artnet. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
↑ Horst Heres: Dachauer Gemäldegalerie . Museumsverein Dachau, 1985 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2017]).
↑ Rhoen-Saale.net GmbH: The Georg Schaefer Museum, Schweinfurt. Retrieved December 8, 2017 (German).
^ Collective exhibition Wilhelm Velten: from November 25 to December 25, 1926; permanent art exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative, Munich Altes Nationalmuseum . Wolf, 1926 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2017]).
^ Rolf H. Johannsen, Uta Barbara Ullrich: Documentation of foreign ownership in the National Gallery of Paintings and Sculptures. In: Wilhelm Krull (Hrsg.), Bernhard Graf (Hrsg.) What does research mean and to what end in museums (= messages and reports from the Institute for Museum Research . Volume 48). Institute for Museum Research National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2009, ISSN 1436-4166 , pp. 81–83. ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Velten, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	1929
Place of death	Munich

[1] Adolf Rosenberg: The Munich School of Painting in its development since 1871 . Printed for the Kunstverein zu Hannover, 1887 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2017]).

[2] Neithardt, Johann Matthias | Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .

[3] Phelps, William Preston | Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .

[4] Wilhelm Velten 1847-1929 / mageda - Painting and painting database. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .

[5] Wilhelm Velten | artnet. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .

[6] Horst Heres: Dachauer Gemäldegalerie . Museumsverein Dachau, 1985 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2017]).

[7] Rhoen-Saale.net GmbH: The Georg Schaefer Museum, Schweinfurt. Retrieved December 8, 2017 (German).

[8] Collective exhibition Wilhelm Velten: from November 25 to December 25, 1926; permanent art exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative, Munich Altes Nationalmuseum . Wolf, 1926 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2017]).

[9] Rolf H. Johannsen, Uta Barbara Ullrich: Documentation of foreign ownership in the National Gallery of Paintings and Sculptures. In: Wilhelm Krull (Hrsg.), Bernhard Graf (Hrsg.) What does research mean and to what end in museums (= messages and reports from the Institute for Museum Research . Volume 48). Institute for Museum Research National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2009, ISSN 1436-4166 , pp. 81–83. ( online )