Willi Tillmans

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Willi Tillmans (born November 20, 1888 in Düsseldorf , † March 25, 1985 in Hagen ) was a German painter .

Life

Willi Tilmans grew up in Düsseldorf and was accepted into the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 16 (1911) . After completing the “plaster class” and “antique hall”, indispensable preliminary stages for painting, he advanced to the landscape class, where Professor Eugen Dücker became his teacher. Dücker shaped German landscape painting for decades according to the motto: loyalty to nature. Willi Tillmans also took over essentials from this teacher and only later found his own distinctive style through direct and intensive contact with nature.

Even before the First World War, Tillmans was several times a guest in the Wesetal (side valley of the Eder : Frebershausen - Gellershausen - Kleinern - Giflitz ) and got to know and love the landscape that would later become his home. In 1919 he built himself a studio in Kleinern. He had to support his family under initially meager conditions. For example, he once said: "I sometimes cut the hair of the children in the village for a piece of bacon, we had nothing ..."

The numerous works by Tillmans - oil paintings , watercolors , graphics - mainly show motifs from the Waldeck area . The drawings in the calendar and stories in the Waldeck regional calendar also contributed to his high level of awareness. From 1942 to 1945 Tillmans gave art lessons at the Oberschule in Bad Wildungen and, after the war, at the Froebel seminar, a training center for kindergarten teachers, for a few years.

Willi Tillmans died on March 25, 1985 at the age of 96 in Hagen. His studio was built true to the original in the spa museum in Bad Wildungen , and some of his pictures from the estate are kept there.

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SURNAME Tillmans, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1985
Place of death Hagen