Willi Schütz

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Willi Schütz (born July 12, 1914 in Baunach ; † October 20, 1995 ) was a German painter .

life and work

Schütz studied agriculture in Munich on a scholarship. Further stations of his studies were Düsseldorf and 1936 Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí . During the Second World War he served as a soldier, was taken prisoner in the Soviet Union and did not return from there until 1954 after a stay in the Vorkuta camp .

The subject of watercolors and rough pen drawings by Schütz, who had learned from Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg in the 1950s and whose respect he enjoyed, was particularly the animal world. In addition to the illustration of numerous books and magazines, portraits, mosaics and sgraffiti were also among his works.

Schütz exhibited in Toronto, Monte Carlo, Madrid and Lyon, among others. He also worked as an art teacher at a Siegerland grammar school. The painter Bodo Meier was one of his students there .

The Bürgererverein Ebern 1897 eV has an extensive collection of works by Willi Schütz (over 300 original works), which are repeatedly presented to the public in various exhibitions in the so-called "Xaver Mayr Gallery".

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  • "Honoring the dead", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1997, p. 37, 72nd edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, publishing house for local literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence of the painter Bodo Meier
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Baunach
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1995