Willi Schomann

Willi Schomann (born January 16, 1881 in Parchim ; † September 20, 1917 near Ypres ) was a painter who became known for his sacred art. A number of paintings in Mecklenburg churches come from him . He also created numerous landscape paintings and portraits.

Life

Willi Schomann was born the son of master cooper Christian Schomann and his wife Dorothea, née Schultz, at Lange Straße 16. He lost his father when he was thirteen. After completing secondary and trade school, Willi Schomann started an apprenticeship as a painter at the Daehling company. He only left his hometown to join the Schmarje painter's studio in Hamburg in 1898.

This was followed by studies in Trier, Rothenburg od Tauber, Leipzig and finally in Berlin. There he was registered at the 1st crafts school from 1900, and from 1902 at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum under Max Koch and Richard Böhland. Thanks to a scholarship, he studied from 1905 at the Charlottenburg University of Fine Arts under Waldemar Friedrich, Josef Scheurenberg and Raffael Schuster-Woldan . In 1914 he took a master class course until he was called up in 1915. Two years later, on September 20, 1917, at the age of 36, he was killed on the battlefield of Ypres in Belgium. He left a widow with no children.

Sacred art was Willi Schomann's main field, both as a restorer and as a designer. How much his contact with his homeland was maintained is shown by a list of the following places for which he took over orders.

Works

• 1907 painting of the choir in the Parchim St. Mary's Church with the Twelve Apostles .
• 1907 carved altar from 1530 restored in Lancken .
• 1910 painting of the stone church in Marsow .
• 1911 the village church of Kirch Jesar .
• 1913 the Markuskirche in Plauen .
• Connected to his homeland, he also restored the altars in Zierzow , the Moorish altar from 1530 in Bergrade , altars in Pinnow and in the Johanniterkirche Kraak .
• Altarpieces in the parish church of Güstrow and in the Ratzeburg Cathedral .

Many of his works are documented in the local museum in Parchim.

literature

• Hermann Francke: The painter Willi Schomann (1881-1917). In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. 1931, 1, pp. 38-40.
• Corina Bomann: Willi Schomann. In: Parchimer personalities. 1997, p. 27-32.
• Ingrid Möller: Not drawn for decades. In: SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, No. 16, 2003, p. 15.
• Supplement to the exhibition Willi Schomann - a church painter from Parchim. Parchim, St. Marien, 2008.

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Printed sources

• Mecklenburg record book (MJB)
• Mecklenburg Yearbooks (MJB)

Web links

• Literature about Willi Schomann in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingrid Möller: Not drawn for decades. SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, No. 16, 2003, p. 26.
2. ↑ Ingrid Möller: Not drawn for decades. SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, No. 16, 2003, p. 26.
3. ↑ Ingrid Möller: Not drawn for decades. SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, No. 16, 2003, p, 26.
4. ^ Wolfgang Utecht: Church treasures in the exhibition. SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, July 3, 2020, p. 21.
5. ^ Wolfgang Utecht: Church treasures in the exhibition. SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, July 3, 2020, p. 21.
6. ↑ in the article Church treasures in the exhibition by Wolfgang Utecht on July 3, 2020 in the SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin, p. 21 is the Güstrow cathedral altar called ?!