Will Küpper
Will Küpper (born June 11, 1893 in Brühl , Rhineland, † March 26, 1972 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .
biography
He and Max Ernst received his first painting lessons from his father. In 1907 he began an apprenticeship in a fabric shop and with a watchmaker in Cologne, which he broke off after a few weeks.
From 1907 to 1913 he attended Robert Seuffert's drawing class at the Cologne School of Applied Arts , but was generally disappointed with the training. In 1912 he visited the Cologne Sonderbund exhibition , which had a formative effect on him. During this time he lived for a few weeks with Max Ernst in a student apartment. In 1914, on Seuffert's recommendation, he worked with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner on a frieze for the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne. He returned from the First World War as a soldier in 1918 from the Western Front with a serious wound. From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Willy Spatz and opened his studio at Rheindorfer Burg in Walberberg . In 1921 he moved to the Munich Art Academy , where he attended courses with Karl Caspar and Max Unold . He stayed in Munich until 1923 before returning to the Düsseldorf Academy. In 1926 he finished his studies and was most recently a master class student with Heinrich Nauen .
After completing his studies, he worked as a freelancer and was commissioned to paint a mural in the Düsseldorf planetarium the same year he graduated. During this time he lived in the neighborhood of the painters Otto Pankok and Richard Seewald and the poet Emil Barth .
In 1937, three of his works from public property were confiscated during the Degenerate Art campaign . Küpper withdraws and mainly paints still lifes and depictions of working people. During a bombing in 1942 he lost a large part of his previous work.
In 2001 the city of Brühl took over the artistic estate from his widow Käte Küpper.
Works (selection)
- 1919 After the war
- 1926 My little friend
- 1930 still life with reliquary
- 1933 clown with candle
Memberships
- 1928 co-founder of the Rhenish Secession
- 1928–30 member of the Rhine group
- 1946 co-founder of the newly founded Rhenish Secession
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1923 Alfred Flechtheim Gallery in Cologne
- 1934 House of Art in Mönchengladbach
- 1942 Municipal art collection in Duisburg
- 1942 Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren
- 1949 West German Artists Association of German Painting and Sculpture of the area warden in Cologne
- 1952 Suermondt Museum in Aachen
- 1975 Linssen Gallery in Bonn
- 1993 Gallery at Schloss Brühl, Cologne
Collections
- Suermondt Museum Aachen
- Municipal art collection in Belgrade, Düsseldorf and Duisburg
- Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne
- Municipal Museum in Neuss
- Municipal gallery Schloss Oberhausen
literature
- Emil Barth: Lemuria records and meditation , Claassen and Govers publishing house, Hamburg 1947
- Erich Heck: Will Küpper , exhibition catalog, 1968
- Anita and Wolf Rüdiger Hüttl: Will Küpper. Oeuvre of the paintings, Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1983
- Günther Rehbein: Will Küpper , Düsseldorfer Kulturkalender, June 1958
- Will Küpper: 1893-1972; e. Surrealist from d. Rhineland d. 20s; October 19 - November 26, 1975 , Galerie Linssen, Bonn
Web links
- Literature by and about Will Küpper in the catalog of the German National Library
- Will Küpper's CV ( page no longer available )
- Will Küpper at Artfacts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anita and Wolf Rüdiger Hüttl: Will Küpper, Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1983, p. 268.
- ↑ Anita and Wolf Rüdiger Hüttl: Will Küpper, Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1983, p. 268.
- ↑ https://www.bruehl.de/will-kuepper.aspx
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Küpper, Will |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruehl (Rhineland) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1972 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |