Wilhelm Wunderwald
Wilhelm "Willy" Wunderwald (born July 28, 1870 in Düsseldorf ; † July 20, 1937 there ) was a German landscape , figure and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School . He was also active as an illustrator and crafts .
Life
Wilhelm Wunderwald was a son of the Düsseldorf flag painter and flag manufacturer Alex Wunderwald. He grew up in a family interested in the arts and crafts. His sister was the painter, illustrator and designer Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald , his cousin the painter Gustav Wunderwald .
From 1884 to 1891 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student of Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Adolf Schill and Peter Janssen the Elder . For a while he also studied in Weimar . He settled in Düsseldorf. In addition to a painter, he worked as an illustrator and was involved in the arts and crafts by designing chess pieces .
In 1897, Wunderwald sent the international art exhibition in Berlin in 1897. In 1909 and 1920 he was represented at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf .
literature
- Wunderwald, 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. 308 .
- Wunderwald, Wilhelm. In: General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical index A – Z. Volume 10: Torrico-Z. KG Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23920-3 , p. 649.
Web links
- Wilhelm Wunderwald , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Wilhelm Wunderwald , artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ Jarno Jessen : Chess Pieces . In: The Gazebo . Year 1911, p. 979 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wunderwald, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wunderwald, Willy (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter, figure painter and still life painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1937 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |