Will Czech

Will Czech , also Willi Czech (born August 30, 1891 in Düsseldorf ; † January 18, 1975 there ), was a German landscape , genre , portrait and still life painter of the Düsseldorf School , draftsman and restorer .

Life

Czech first attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts in 1907 before moving to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1915 , where he studied under Eugen Dücker and August Deusser until 1918 . In the 1920s he was a member of the art movements Das Junge Rheinland and Rheinische Sezession . In 1937 two of his works were among the objects that the Reich Chamber of Culture removed from the Düsseldorf Art Museum as part of the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign . At the same time, Czech was allowed to continue exhibiting during the Nazi era . From 1956 to 1975 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He traveled to Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, France and Africa.

Exhibitions

• 1937: Large art exhibition in Düsseldorf , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1937: 105th major spring exhibition , Künstlerhaus Hannover
• 1939/40, 1942/43: Great German Art Exhibition , House of German Art , Munich
• 1939, 1941: Autumn exhibition of Düsseldorf artists, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1940, 1942: Spring exhibition in Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1940: “Art exhibition for soldiers. Contemporary artists exhibit "
• 1940: Rhenish Art Exhibition Berlin, Schönhausen Palace , Berlin
• 1940: "German Watercolor Artists of the Present II", Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
• 1942: Winter exhibition of Düsseldorf artists, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1942: “The Rhine and the Reich”, Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum , Braunschweig
• 1942: "North German watercolors and small sculptures", Kunstverein Hamburg

literature

• Czech, Will . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 477 .
• Otto J. Groeg: Who's who in the Arts . Who's Who-Book & Publishing, Wörthsee 1978, p. 316.
• Martin Papenbrock : “Degenerate Art” - Art in Exile - Resistance Art in West German Exhibitions after 1945. An annotated bibliography . VDG, Weimar 1996, p. 539.

Web links

• Czech, Will , biography in the portal eart.de
• Czech, Will , short biography in the portal stiftung-volmer.de ( Foundation Collection Volmer )
• Will Czech , auction results on the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )