Willi Münch-Khe

Willi Münch-Khe (born January 19, 1885 in Karlsruhe as Heinrich Eduard Wilhelm Münch, † December 29, 1960 ibid) was a German painter , graphic artist , porcelain and ceramic modeller and craftsman .

He later changed his name: in order to avoid confusion with the painter Willi Münch-Munich and in honor of his hometown Karlsruhe, he added the addition Khe .

Life

Münch, son of a post office clerk, trained as a glass painter and studied in Karlsruhe at the local academy . From 1908 he worked as a drawing teacher at the arts and crafts school there. In 1909 he became a master student with Hans Thoma . In the same year he made his first ceramic designs for the Karlsruhe majolica factory . The collaboration ended in 1915.

Between 1914 and 1924, Münch-Khe also worked for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen . From 1929 he lived in Leipzig, from 1934 in Berlin .

In the 1930s, Münch-Khe also worked as a freelancer for the Rosenthal company , for which he designed a porcelain service and animal figures. From 1939 he ran his own workshop in Hegau on Lake Constance .

In the post-war period , Willi Münch-Khe lived in Argentina from 1949 to 1953 . From 1953 he again created designs for the Meißen porcelain factory, as well as for Villeroy and Boch and Hutschenreuther .

Willi Münch-Khe died at dawn on December 29, 1960 of complications from a heart attack .

Complete works (according to own information)

Hundreds of hand drawings and drafts
Oil paintings from three epochs
370 partly life-size portraits
350 drypoint etchings
250 porcelains
040 animal bronzes
012 bronze busts

literature

Eugen Rombach: Willi Münch-Khe (1885–1969). Obituary in: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , self-published by the Hegau-Geschichtsverein Singen e. V. Volume 41/42, Singen (Hohentwiel) , September 1986, pp. 259-265.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Helga Hilschenz (research associate), Bernd Fritz ( arrangement ): Münch-Khe , in this: Rosenthal, one hundred years of porcelain. Exhibition, Kestner Museum, Hanover , leaflet and catalog for the exhibition of the same name from April 29 to June 13, 1982 in the Kestner Museum Hanover, as well as from June 20 to August 15, 1982 in the Focke Museum in Bremen and from September 10th until October 31, 1982 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne in the Overstolzenhaus, ed. for the Kestner Museum, Union-Verlag, Hanover, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-8139-5604-7 and ISBN 3-8139-5604-0 , p. 190

↑ Eugen Rombach: Willi Münch-Khe (1885–1969). Obituary in: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , self-published by the Hegau-Geschichtsverein Singen e. V. Volume 41/42, Singen (Hohentwiel) , September 1986, p. 265.

personal data
SURNAME	Münch-Khe, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Münch, Heinrich Eduard Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1960
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[Kestner-Katalog-1] Helga Hilschenz (research associate), Bernd Fritz ( arrangement ): Münch-Khe , in this: Rosenthal, one hundred years of porcelain. Exhibition, Kestner Museum, Hanover , leaflet and catalog for the exhibition of the same name from April 29 to June 13, 1982 in the Kestner Museum Hanover, as well as from June 20 to August 15, 1982 in the Focke Museum in Bremen and from September 10th until October 31, 1982 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne in the Overstolzenhaus, ed. for the Kestner Museum, Union-Verlag, Hanover, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-8139-5604-7 and ISBN 3-8139-5604-0 , p. 190

[2] Eugen Rombach: Willi Münch-Khe (1885–1969). Obituary in: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , self-published by the Hegau-Geschichtsverein Singen e. V. Volume 41/42, Singen (Hohentwiel) , September 1986, p. 265.