Wilhelm Wagner (painter)

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Wilhelm Wagner (born April 26, 1887 in Hanau , † August 22, 1968 in Bad Saarow ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Wilhelm Wagner began an apprenticeship as a goldsmith and silversmith in 1901 and completed his training by attending the technical college for the precious metal industry in his native Hanau. After completing his apprenticeship, he went to Solingen to receive additional design training at the technical school for the steel and iron industry . From 1908 he attended the arts and crafts school in Barmen , which offered lithography , among other things , and then went to the arts and crafts school in Berlin for a further two years after taking an entrance exam, where he became a student of Emil Rudolf Weiß .

Study trips took Wagner to Italy and France, where he stayed longer in Paris. With the outbreak of the First World War , he returned to Berlin for a short time and moved to Amsterdam around 1921 . Back in Berlin in 1922, he shared a studio with Max Pechstein at Kurfürstenstrasse 126. The Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin appointed the internationally recognized artist to be a member on October 27, 1922 and made him a professor. At that time he lived at Kurfürstenstrasse 126. He had another studio in Bad Saarow on the Scharmützelsee . Wagner joined the Berlin Secession early on and came into contact with Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth through the publisher of Fritz Gurlitt Verlag Wolfgang Gurlitt and his publisher Paul Eipper . Wagner also worked for Alfred Gold and Paul Cassirer . From the mid-1920s, Wilhelm Wagner stayed in Italy (1924) and again and again temporarily in France.

During the Nazi era , Wagner was officially banned from painting by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in 1938 , which was equivalent to a professional ban as a painter, and alternatively worked as an architect and furniture designer. In an air raid on Berlin during the Second World War , his studio and most of his works were destroyed and Wagner and his second wife moved into the house in Bad Saarow. After the occupation of Bad Saarow by the Red Army in April 1945, the couple were expelled and moved to Großenlupnitz . When the Wagners returned three years later, they also discovered the loss of the majority of the works stored in Saarow. At the end of the 1950s, the artist made another trip to the south of France on the Mediterranean coast. Wilhelm Wagner died in Bad Saarow in August 1968.

plant

Wilhelm Wagner's work includes a large number of book illustrations. In painting, he devoted himself in oil or watercolor of landscape painting with city views , some still life with flowers, and sometimes erotic nudes of girls and women . In addition, Wilhelm Wagner is named as a draftsman for glass painting; this was presumably in Max Pechstein's studio, who, for example, made the designs for colored glazing for Wolfgang Gurlitt's exhibition rooms in 1917. In the years 2000/2001 an exhibition with the works of Wilhelm Wagner took place in the Historisches Museum Hanau .

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of a lady , oil painting, 1911
  • Target practice , lithograph, wartime cover No. 40, Paul Cassirer and Alfred Gold, Berlin, 1915
  • Sleeping woman and child , etching, 1919
  • Canal in Amsterdam , color lithograph, 1921
  • Flower still life , oil painting, 1922
  • Young woman at the morning toilet , oil painting, around 1922
  • San Giorgio, Venice , oil painting, 1924
  • The village of Pieskow , watercolor, 1924
  • Diensdorf , oil painting, 1924
  • Female nude , watercolor, 1926
  • Saint-Germain-des-Prés , 1927
  • The Seine in Paris , 1927
  • Paris , oil painting, 1929
  • Pont St. Michel , 1929
  • Lilac bouquet , watercolor, 1944
  • Summer evening on the banks of the Scharmützelsee , watercolor, 1952
  • On the stock exchange , watercolor, 1954
  • The port of Cassis , oil painting, 1957
  • Two bathers at the lake , watercolor
  • The Cecilienpark in Bad Saarow , oil painting

literature

  • Marianne Herzog, Wieland Barthelmess : Wilhelm Wagner: painter & graphic artist 1887–1968 . Zertani, 1999, ISBN 3-9805772-0-1
  • Adolf Sennewald: German book illustrators in the first third of the 20th century material for bibliophiles . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1999, ISBN 3-447-04228-1 , pp. 240-241
  • Vollmer: General Lexicon of the Arts . Leipzig, 1961, Volume 5, p. 67
  • Otto Grautoff : Sketchbook . Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, Berlin, 1922

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preface. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) heimbildungsstaette.de, in: 100 years Caritas in Bad Saarow , p. 4
  2. ↑ Weiss oder Weiß, Emil Rudolf (1875–1942) often listed under names: Weiß, Ernst Rudolf (wrong name form)
  3. ^ Hainer Weißpflug: Pechstein, Hermann Max . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7759-0479-4 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  4. ^ Berlin district lexicon, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . Edition Luisenstadt, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7759-0479-7
  5. ↑ image “Young woman at the morning toilet”, on the reverse artist address: Berlin, Kurfürstenstr. 126 , on hampel-auctions.com; Retrieved April 28, 2016
  6. ^ Monograph Wilhelm Wagner. In: Adolf Sennewald: German book illustrators in the first third of the 20th century . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1999
  7. ↑ Title Wartime No. 40 of May 20, 1915
  8. ^ Wilhelm Wagner, Bild San Giorgio, Venice, 1924 , on Ketterer Kunst, accessed on April 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1968
Place of death Bad Saarow