Wilhelm Wulff (artist)

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Cenotaph created by Wulff at the Bochum-Hamme cemetery to commemorate the victims of the firedamp explosion in 1936 on the 9th floor of the United President colliery

Wilhelm Wulff , actually Wilhelm Buskühl (born April 25, 1891 in Wehringsen near Soest , † April 18, 1980 in Soest) was a German painter and sculptor .

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Wullf attended the Bad Warmbrunn wood carving school in 1913/1914 and the wood carving school in 1919. From 1914 to 1918 he served in the German Army . As a childhood friend of Wilhelm Morgner and companion of Eberhard Viegener , Wulff is considered to be one of the formative minds of the Westphalian art scene in the first half of the 20th century. His early work is characterized by expressionist and constructivist influences. He was friends with Johannes Molzahn when he lived in Soest from 1920 to 1922. For the modern villas in Plange (1926), Sternberg (1927) and Jahn (1930) in Soest, which were designed by Bruno Paul , Wulff created a chimney relief with a view of the city of Soest, which are still preserved today. After studying in Paris in the winter of 1928/1929, he turned to realistic representations. A focus of his work is publicly commissioned work, such as miners' monuments in the Ruhr area.

After the First World War, Wilhelm Wulff was a member of the German Association of Artists until its forced dissolution in 1936 by the Reich Chamber of Art . He had been a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts since 1933 . In 1937, 1943 and 1944 he took part in the "Great German Art Exhibitions" in Munich.

In 1966 he received the Federal Cross of Merit .

In Soest , a street name in the action Wilhelm Wulff remembers.

Wilhelm Wulff's daughter Ulrike Probst, who died in July 2014, donated her assets to the Wilhelm Wulff Foundation with the aim of promoting art and culture in order to maintain and appreciate the work of Wilhelm Wulff. Wilhelm Wulff's artistic estate is in the Wilhelm Morgner Museum in Soest.

literature

  • Wulff, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 302-303 .
  • Author: Wulff, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 176 .
  • Klaus Bußmann: Enjoying nature - flower gardens, landscapes - August Macke and the Expressionists in Westphalia. Münster 1994, ISBN 3-87088836-9 .
  • Christine Knupp-Uhlenhaut (Ed.): Wilhelm Morgner - Letters and Drawings: Letters to Georg Tappert, to the mother and to Wilhelm Wulff. 1984, ISBN 3-87902502-9 .
  • Helmut Ebert: Lexicon of visual and creative artists in Westfale-Lippe. Aschendorff, Münster 2001, Volume 3, ISBN 978-3-402-13223-4 , p.
  • Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe Museum Office for Westphalia: Wilhelm Wulff (1891–1980). Catalog for the traveling exhibition of the same name. 2011, ISBN 3-92720472-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Helmut Ebert: Lexicon of the visual and creative artists in Westfale-Lippe. Aschendorff, Münster 2001, Volume 3, ISBN 978-3-402-13223-4 , p.
  2. ↑ See Thomas Drebusch: The Soester Villas . In: Alfred Numbers (Ed.): Bruno Paul, German spatial art and architecture between Art Nouveau and modernism . Munich 1992, p. 283ff.
  3. ↑ Press release from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association on the traveling exhibition "Wilhelm Wulff (1891–1980)" , accessed on September 9, 2015.
  4. ^ See W. Wulff , in: 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (List of members 1936, pp. 98–99).
  5. ↑ cf. Personal file Wilhelm Wulff; State Archives Berlin; A Rep. 243-04 No. 10009.
  6. ↑ See catalogs of the "Great German Art Exhibition". Munich, 1937, 1943 and 1944.
personal data
SURNAME Wulff, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buskühl, Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehringsen near Soest
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1980
Place of death Soest