Wilhelm Wrobel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wilhelm Wrobel (born May 25, 1900 in Easter Castle , today part of Oldenburg (Oldenburg) ; † March 10, 1961 in Brackwede , today part of Bielefeld ) was a German painter and sculptor.

Life

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Wrobel had already moved to East Westphalia as a toddler from Easter Castle, where his father worked as a glassmaker; Brackwede was his mother's hometown. Even in his youth, Wrobel expressed his desire to become an artist, but he bowed to the advice of his well-meaning parents and, after leaving school, initially completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer , and later as a chemigrapher. A trade school teacher became aware of Wrobel's artistic abilities: from 1919 to 1921 he attended the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts on a scholarship from the city of Bielefeld . As a student of Ludwig Godewols and Karl Muggli, he learned further graphic techniques there and graduated from school as a qualified painter. The sculpture he taught self-taught at. He then received a scholarship in Dresden, which became worthless due to inflation. As a result, Wrobel worked as a lithographer in the graphic industry and was active as a works council member of a Bielefeld graphic company until he was dismissed in 1934 for refusing to submit to the law on the regulation of national labor passed on January 20 . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, in 1943 with tuberculosis he was retired as unfit for war. With odd jobs - for example as a book illustrator, as a designer of posters for the professing church or as a sales representative - Wrobel got by.

plant

As a freelance artist, Wrobel joined the so-called secessionists around Eugen Spiro in Berlin, an association of artists who did not belong to any group. He created an extensive work consisting of wooden sculptures, watercolors, oil paintings, linocuts, etchings and drawings with red chalk, pencil or ballpoint pen. As a motif, Wrobel preferred people, often in emotionally troubled states, or people at work, characterized by their mostly hard work, as well as landscapes as well as urban and Christian motifs. His wooden studio became the old scales of the Möller works. Wrobel made a name for himself as a creator of Christian works of art that adorn numerous churches in the East Westphalia region. Examples are the wooden Jesus figure The Good Shepherd from 1948 and the oil painting Gethsemane in the Evangelical Church in Isselhorst , the memorial in the Evangelical Church Ummeln , a relief of John the Baptist in the Johanneskirche in Quelle and a crucifix in the Brackweder Bartholomäus Church which was destroyed in a church fire in 1990.

"The works of the extremely creative artist force reflection, demand a change of thinking and call for a change of existence", wrote an editor of the Bielefelder Westfalenblatt in 1957. Wrobel defined the essence of art in an undated handwritten essay entitled What is art?  : "Art is the disembodiment of things, because in it human beings, animals, earth and all other appearances lose their materiality, and in the metamorphosis of a creative act it transforms what appears into a new thingness: the product of art."

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions in Brackwede and Bielefeld during his lifetime; Collective exhibitions in Berlin and Munich. After his death:

  • 1986 Junghänel Gallery (Bielefeld): "Wooden sculptures in the church"
  • 2000 Brackwede town hall pavilion (Brackweder backdrop): Memorial exhibition "100 Years of Wilhelm Wrobel - Painting, Graphics, Sculpture (April 30, 2000 to May 28, 2000)
  • 2001 Heimathaus Brackwede: “Pictures, drawings and sculptures. Christian motifs "
  • 2008: Heimathaus Brackwede: "Pictures, drawings and sculptures - Christian motifs by Wilhelm Wrobel"
  • 2013: Heimatverein Isselhorst: "From everyday farming life" (April 1, 2013 to June 30, 2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ author abbreviation jes: exhibition on the 100th anniversary William Wrobel. Drawn with paint. In: Westfalen-Blatt , May 3, 2000.
  2. ^ Hagenkordt: Wilhelm Wrobel: The works of an upright artist. In: Die Glocke , April 29, 2000.
  3. ↑ A. Pollmeier: From religion and emotion. From Sunday: Wilhelm Wrobel memorial exhibition in the town hall pavilion . In: Neue Westfälische No. 97, April 26, 2000.
  4. ↑ Rolf Birkholz: Son gives paintings from an estate . In: Neue Westfälische , October 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Markus Poch: Jesus up close on 25 Wrobels . In: Westfalen-Blatt , February 28, 2008.
  6. ↑ Author abbreviation Jhl: Despite everything, became an artist. Wilhelm Wrobel works and creates in silence . In: Westfalenblatt No. 45 of February 22, 1957.
  7. ↑ Bielefelder Spiegel 10/2008 (PDF page 32) ( Memento from January 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wrobel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Easter castle
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1961
Place of death Brackwede