Willi Egler

Willi Egler (born December 18, 1887 in Rappenau , † January 25, 1953 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter.

Life

Egler was born in Rappenau, attended elementary school there and then secondary school in the neighboring town of Wimpfen . He then completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer at Geissendörfer in Karlsruhe, then went via Paris to Bilbao , briefly returned to the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe, then switched to the Giacomelli art academy in Florence and from 1907 to 1914 to the Karlsruhe art academy , with Schmidt -Reutter, Georgi and Conz, again interrupted by a trip to Spain. Egler made his numerous and extensive travels on foot, and during his study and traveling years he produced numerous sketches, drawings and etchings that reproduced landscapes and scenes of village life along the way. In 1909 he was accepted into the Karlsruher Kunstverein , and in 1911 he was promoted to the board. During the First World War he was a volunteer photographer for an air squadron. After the First World War he continued his studies and now also devoted himself to oil painting, in 1919 as a master student at Haueisen. Landscape and nude paintings were created. Since completing his studies in 1919, he worked as a freelance painter, but for a long time did not tie himself to the family and continued to travel extensively. In 1921 he took part in the German Art Exhibition in Baden-Baden. In 1923 he was again in Italy for four months, where his brother Carl Egler (1896–1982) had a studio in Cortona. In 1924 his works appeared in the Badische Künstlermappe . At the time of National Socialism, Egler received state contracts for art in buildings . In 1936 he painted the walls of the surgical university clinic in Heidelberg, later murals followed in the Mackensen barracks in Karlsruhe and elsewhere. In 1941/42 he was involved with several pictures in the art exhibition German contemporary art in Mühlhausen in Alsace. In 1943 the Ekkhart yearbook reported on him and his work. In 1948 he married Elisabeth Münsing, the marriage had a son. In 1953 he died of a stroke after an eye operation.

Willi Egler and his younger brothers Carl and Ludwig Egler were always closely connected to the Karlsruhe Artists' Union and were of great importance in the city's social life. They are buried in a shared grave complex in the Karlsruhe main cemetery. In Karlsruhe-Daxlanden a street was named after Willi Egler.

literature

• Hubert Doerrschuck: "Art needs many lives". Artistic triumvirate in Karlsruhe - memory of the Egler brothers , in: Ekkhart 1984, pp. 195–201.
• Roswitha Baurmann-Riegger: Egler, Willi , in: Badische Biographien . New episode. Vol. 2, 1987, pp. 73 f.
• Ludwig Vögely : Kraichgauer Gestalten , Ubstadt-Weiher 1994, pp. 88-90.

Web links

• Willi Egler: Painter on karlsruhe.de