Will Klinger-Franken

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Will Klinger-Franken (born September 21, 1909 in Veitshöchheim , † March 31, 1986 in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden ) was a German painter .

Life

Will Klinger-Franken was taught drawing by the impressionist Peter Würth at the age of six . Trained as a church painter in Würzburg from 1923 and taught by Professor Heiner Dikreiter at the art school, he opened his first studio in Würzburg in 1925. In 1930 Klinger moved with his studio to Munich, where he began studying for ten years at the Academy of Fine Arts . In 1935 and 1937 he spent one year studying in Italy. After graduating from the academy, Klinger worked alongside his artistic activities from 1940 during the war years as a restorer for Professor Schmuderer at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in Munich. In 1941 Klinger married Anita Mueller from Bremen. After their Munich studio was bombed out, the couple were evacuated to Benediktbeuern in 1944 . In 1946 the family, which had since grown to include daughter Eva, first moved to Worpswede and then in 1948 to Klinger's birthplace, Veitshöchheim. In 1951 his son Thomas was born.

After a first visit to Schönau am Königssee in 1936 , Klinger and his family regularly spent the summer months in Chiemgau and Berchtesgadener Land from 1948 onwards . In 1960 he built a house in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden , which became the primary residence for him and his family and in which he lived until his death.

His children Eva Klinger-Römhild (sculpture and ceramics) and Thomas Klinger (photography) also pursued artistic careers.

Act

After the end of the war, temporarily part of the Worpswede artists' colony between 1946 and 1948 , Klinger was interested in the industrial landscapes of Bremen and Bremerhaven . Later he concentrated on the artistic representation of the cultural landscape between Inn and Salzach , in particular on his new adopted home in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden.

His works have been exhibited in Munich , Salzburg , Burghausen , Hallein and Traunstein , among others .

He was a member of the professional association of visual artists in Munich , the association of artists in Lower Franconia and the Berchtesgadener Künstlerbund .

literature

  • Hellmut Schöner (Ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time - supplementary volume I , 1982, p. 532.
  • CGM: Capturing the moment in color - On the 100th birthday of the painter Will Klinger-Franken in the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger on June 29, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Vita on the Will Klinger-Franken homepage, online at will-klinger-franken.de

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Klinger-Franken, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Veitshochheim
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1986
Place of death Ramsau near Berchtesgaden