Wilhelm Wöller

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Wilhelm Wöller (born July 20, 1907 in Gummersbach , Rhine Province , † December 10, 1954 in New York , USA ) was a German expressionist painter .

Life

Wöller was born in Gummersbach , the youngest of four sons . In 1912 the family moved to Lage . In 1923 he studied art at the craft and applied arts school in Bielefeld . In the 1920s he studied at the Art Academy in Dresden and came into contact with members of the artists' association bridge . His daughter Christa was born in 1931 and his son Friedemann in 1932. In 1932 he studied at the art academy in Berlin . Summer stays in Rowe followed from 1933 to 1935 . a. painted with Willy Jaeckel and Max Pechstein .

In 1936 he exhibited works in the Ferdinand Möller Gallery in Berlin, which was closed shortly after the Gestapo opened it. The National Socialist regime in Germany classified Wöller as a “ degenerate artist ” and banned him from exhibiting. In 1938 Wöller traveled to Lithuania. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939 . He stayed first in Teresópolis and from 1942 in Rio de Janeiro . During this time, Wöller created works such as the giant oil and sand painting "Emigrant Ship" with 280 figures, his "Visions of War" and expressionistic pictures of Brazil. However, he never felt at home in Brazil. In 1945 his picture Namoro Sentimental in the group exhibition Exposição de Arte Condenada pelo III Reich in the Galeria Askanasy in Rio de Janeiro was damaged by three students belonging to the Nazi ideology. From 1946 to 1947 he worked as the art director of a film company and traveled along the Amazon . In 1948 the Rio Abstrato solo exhibition with 44 watercolors by Wöller took place under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro .

In 1949 he moved to New York City , where he worked as a set designer for CBS for some time . In 1954 Wöller visited Germany for six months in order to prepare an exhibition there. But that didn't happen, he died in New York City in late 1954. Wöller is considered an almost forgotten supporter of the artist group Die Brücke .

Wilhelm Wöller's grave is located in Cutchogue Cemetery on Long Island in New York.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1936 Ferdinand Möller Gallery , Berlin
  • 1937 Westphalia's contribution to German contemporary art , Haus Rothenburg Münster, organized by the Landesmuseum Münster
  • 1945 Exposição de Arte Condenada pelo III Reich , Galeria Askanasy, Rio de Janeiro. Group exhibition u. a. with works by Max Beckmann , Lovis Corinth , Otto Dix , Wassily Kandinsky , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Oskar Kokoschka .
  • 1948 Rio Abstrato , Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1956 Wilhelm Woeller , Greer Gallery, New York City
  • 1964 Wilhelm Woeller - Expressionist oils & watercolors , Greer Gallery, New York City, November 9th - December 5th
  • 1981 Wilhelm Woeller , Museu de Arte de São Paulo , São Paulo
  • 1986 Tempos de Guerra: Pensão Mauá , Galeria de Arte BANERJ, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1992 Four Centuries of Art in Brazil , Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2000 Art in Rio de Janeiro from 1905 to 1960 , Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2002 Images of people: 111 works from Bochum's private collection, Museum Bochum
  • 2014 Wilhelm Wöller, um expressionista no Rio , Casa Stefan Zweig, Midrush Centro Cultural, Rio de Janeiro

Web links

literature

  • Fritz Bahlo: Wilhelm Wöller . In: Museum Bochum (ed.): Bochum collects. Part 1: Images of people: 111 works from private property in Bochum . Verlag Museum Bochum, Bochum 2002, p. 222-223 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Fritz Bahlo: Wilhelm Wöller . In: Museum Bochum (ed.): Bochum collects . Part 1: Images of people: 111 works from private property in Bochum . Verlag Museum Bochum, Bochum 2002, p. 222-223 .
  2. ↑ Christine Dressler: Never get over the "loss of home" - Wallau native Marlen Eckl speaks in the city museum about German artists who went into exile in Brazil . In: Wiesbaden Courier . January 30, 2009 (report on the lecture in Wallau / Hofheim).
  3. ↑ Newspaper clipping (PDF)
  4. ↑ wilhelmwoller.com: CV (accessed on July 15, 2016)
  5. ↑ New York Times report. (PDF; 59 kB) Accessed July 1, 2016 .
  6. ^ Wöller, Wilhelm , short biography (in Portuguese), accessed on the casastefanzweig.org portal on May 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ Exhibition catalog Ferdinand Möller Gallery. (PDF; 1.8 MB) Retrieved July 1, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Ed.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions . Part 1: Exhibitions of German contemporary art during the Nazi era . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-041-8 , p. 253 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.28 .
  9. ↑ Exposição de Arte Condenada pelo III Reich (1945: Rio de Janeiro, RJ). In: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural . In addition, catalog, 46 pages, with essay by Hanna Lévy-Hass.
  10. ^ Marlen Eckl: An encounter in the mountain forest of Teresópolis. (PDF; 163 kB) 2014, accessed on July 10, 2016 .
  11. ^ Exhibition catalog Greer Gallery. (PDF; 35.4 MB) Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Jacqueline Barnitz: In the galleries. Wilhelm Woeller (discussion of the exhibition) . In: Arts Magazine . tape 39 , issue 4, January, 1965, ISSN  0004-4059 , p. 62–63 (advertisement of the exhibition in volume 39, issue 1, October 1964, p. 72).
  13. ^ Exhibition catalog Museo de Arte de São Paulo. (PDF; 4.3 MB) Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  14. ^ Woeller, Wilhelm In: Dicionário de artístas do Brasil. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wöller, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woeller, Wilhelm; Woeller, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach , North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1954
Place of death New York , USA