Wilhelm Wickertsheimer
Wilhelm Wickertsheimer (born September 9, 1886 in Lahr / Black Forest , † February 7, 1968 in Offenburg ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
Wilhelm Wickertsheimer was born in 1886 as the son of the painter Johann Wilhelm Wickertsheimer and his wife Sophie Elisabeth Wickertsheimer, b. Eckermann, born in Lahr in the Black Forest . Following the tradition of his father and grandfather, he completed his apprenticeship as a painter from 1900 to 1903 in his parents' company and at the Lahr trade school, which graduated in March 1904 with the journeyman's examination at the Chamber of Crafts in Freiburg . During this time it was already evident that his talent went far beyond the craft profession of a painter. In connection with an exhibition at the trade school, the Lahrer Wochenblatt wrote on March 29, 1903: “We cannot possibly go into details here; But it should be emphasized that the folds painted from plaster models (by W. Wickertsheimer) rightly attracted general attention. ”Between 1900 and 1905 he received art lessons from the Swiss painter August Burkhardt in Lahr and attended the arts and crafts school from 1905 to 1097 in Karlsruhe , where he was particularly influenced by his teacher Hans Thoma . During the semester break he worked as a decorative painter in Zurich and as a church painter and restorer in the Viktor Mezger art workshop . When his father died in 1907, he took over the family business and in March 1909 passed the master craftsman examination at the Chamber of Crafts in Freiburg. On October 28, 1914, he entered the war , survived the Battle of the Somme and was seriously injured on July 3, 1916 in northern France. After the war he resumed painting, and from 1939/40 he was able to work as a freelance artist because of his artistic success. In addition to painting, his interests were in music and nature, for the preservation and care of which he was vehemently committed. In particular , he was an active and committed member of the Lahr Black Forest Association and the Concordia choral society , each of which was recognized with an honorary membership in the association. He died in 1968 at the age of 82.
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Wilhelm Wickertsheimer is considered an important landscape painter of the first half of the 20th century for the southern Black Forest and Ortenau areas . He found a particularly large number of motifs in his hometown of Lahr, on Schutterlindenberg and Gaisberg , in the Elztal , on Feldberg and Hornisgrinde and in the Bernau area . But there are also many pictures of Lake Constance , Switzerland and Paris . An absolute rarity is a collection of watercolors that he painted as a soldier in World War I during the Battle of the Somme and provided with corresponding written information.
He painted most of the pictures on cardboard with oil paint, but there are also oil paintings on canvas, a large number of watercolors and charcoal and pencil drawings.
He kept going out with his easel, paint box and stool in order to find his motifs in the great outdoors, to sketch and sometimes to paint completely. You can still find his pictures in some hikers' huts and in traditional Black Forest restaurants. There are only a few pictures by Wickertsheimer that show people. Only in the views of farms, churches or towns do you occasionally see sketched people. The latter images of buildings and places in particular are important contemporary witnesses and documentations of the time, as many buildings were destroyed in the war or fell victim to modernization.
He occasionally tried his hand at abstract painting, but mostly painted realistic, more like a photograph. The effect of his pictures is mostly characterized by special light (winter, evening mood) and the forces of nature (clouds, fog, snow). As a trained painter (house painter), he also mastered painting furniture with rural motifs, as was modern at that time.
Together with the painters Hermann Dischler , Curt Liebich , Julius Heffner , Wilhelm Nagel and others, he formed the exhibition group “ The Black Forest ” in 1926 , which organized its first joint exhibition in Freiburg in 1927.
From autumn 2016 you can visit a selection of his works in Lahr on the Wickertsheimer Rundweg initiated by the Black Forest Association, local group Lahr.
Works (selection)
Schuttertal in winter
Alt Lahr, large bridge near the bear
Mountain chapel near Hinterzarten
From the trench, La Boiselle September 1915
Feldberg two lakes view
Cherry blossom on the Gaisberg
Web links
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- Emil Baader: Lahr artist. Lahrer Zeitung of July 7, 1934.
- H. Schwarzweber: The Black Forests. Freiburg newspaper of March 19, 1934.
- Hermann Eris Busse / Lahr. People and Homeland of March 29, 1925
- Emil Baader: Wilhelm Wickertsheimer, a herald of the Upper Swabian landscape. Black Forest Sunday mail from September 2, 1949.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Wilhelm Wickertsheimer in the regional information system of Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Wickertsheimer and his view of Lahr. Badische Zeitung . October 17, 2011, accessed June 9, 2016.
- ↑ Lars Weber: On the trail of home. Lahr newspaper . November 18, 2015, accessed June 9, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wickertsheimer, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahr / Black Forest , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th February 1968 |
| Place of death | Offenburg , Germany |