Willi Schramm

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Willi Schramm (born June 17, 1904 in Schnett ; † March 30, 1974 in Saalfeld ) was a German nature and landscape painter and graphic artist, but also tried his hand at wood and paper cutting.

Life

Willi Schramm was the first child of the cooper Edwin Schramm and his wife Selma, geb. Hess, born in Schnett / Thuringia. He was married to Emmi Schramm (1899–1963), b. Hops. From 1911 to 1920 he attended elementary school and a further education school, from 1920 to 1921 the industrial school in Sonneberg .

From 1922 to 1925 he was a student trainee , chest painter and toy painter, and worked in the quarry and building roads. From 1926 to 1927 he attended the arts and crafts school in Eisfeld . As early as 1927, he passed the entrance exam at the art college in Weimar , but was unable to begin studying due to the death of his father. However, he worked as a freelance painter, and his first literary work for regional newspapers, which he illustrated himself, followed. In 1930 he began studying at the art college in Weimar and was a master student in the class of the Weimar landscape painter Alexander Olbrich. For political reasons he had to break off his studies in 1933. From 1931 onwards, the relationship between the Schramm family and the theologian and pastor Carl Vogl from Vierzehnheiligen near Jena , which had existed since the 1920s, was expanded in a joint anti-fascist resistance. From 1934, Willi Schramm lived in Saalfeld / Saale and undertook several study trips to Switzerland, the Rhineland and the Baltic Sea. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht as early as 1939 . Until 1947 he was interned in Soviet captivity in camp 7270/15 in Borowitschi ( Novgorod Oblast ). From 1948 on, he was freelance in Saalfeld again, and during the years of building up the GDR he was artistically and socially involved. Willi Schramm belonged to the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and was a member of the Gera district executive for many years. He was active in the early nature and landscape protection. His studies of nature became the cover of the monthly magazine Natur und Heimat several times . He led several painting circles in the VEB "Wema" Saalfeld and in the district culture house in Kaulsdorf . In 1958, together with other colleagues in Saalfeld, he took part in a study assignment for visual artists on the large construction sites of the Hohenwarte II pumped storage plant. After the death of his wife Emmi in 1963, he withdrew more and more. After a long illness, he died on March 30, 1974 in Saalfeld.

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Willi Schramm left behind a diverse work. After his death, solo exhibitions in Potsdam (1976), Saalfeld (1978), Jena (1991), Ziegenrück (2002), Hummelshain / Schmölln (2007) and Schönbrunn (2010) offered insights into his extensive estate. The Stadtmuseum Saalfeld and the Maxhütte Unterwellenborn art collection have some of his pictures in their holdings. Most of his pictures are in private hands and in the estate.

literature

  • The builders of the pumped storage plant - people of our socialist epoch. Saalfeld 1963 (editorial committee: Willi Schramm, Ferdinand Reichenauer and others)
  • Willi Schramm. Painter from Schnett. Catalog for the exhibition from May 3 to June 4, 2010, Thuringian Forestry Office Schönbrunn.
  • The fairy grotto painter. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung of May 8, 2014 (Saalfeld edition).
  • Thuringian Monthly Papers, No. 5 of August 1, 1925, No. 7 of October 1, 1925, No. 1 of 01.01.1926, No. 2 of February 1, 1926, No. 12 of December 1, 1928, No. 8 of January 1, 1926 August 1928, No. 12 of December 1, 1929, No. 4 of April 1, 1930, No. 9 of September 1, 1930.
  • Forest home. Sheets for the maintenance and organization of village life. Local supplement to the Eisfelder Zeitung, 1st and 2nd year 1928 and 1929.
  • Nature and home. No. 3 of March 1954, No. 9 of September 1955, No. 11 of November 1955, No. 1 of January 1956 and No. 11 of September 1956.
  • Saalfelder Feengrotten und Tourismus GmbH: The Saalfeld Feengrotten: 100 years, 100 discoveries. Sutton Verlag GmbH 2014, ISBN 3-954-00334-1 , p. 14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ museum-digital.de. Retrieved May 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Ostthüringer Zeitung of May 8, 2014: "The Fairy Grotto Painter". Retrieved May 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The Maxhütte Art Collection. Retrieved May 20, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1974
Place of death Saalfeld