Willibald Besta

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Willibald Besta (born November 6, 1866 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † August 15, 1949 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

His father was a lawyer in Ratibor, then in the province of Silesia . Willibald Besta studied painting at the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau under Eduard Kaempffer and Carl Ernst Morgenstern , graduated in 1906, traveled to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian . He then matriculated on May 13, 1908 at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts and studied painting and graphics with Angelo Jank and later became a member of the Munich Secession .

He lived in Munich and exhibited his pictures in the Glass Palace every year ; 4,000 works of art were destroyed and badly damaged in the fire on June 6, 1931, including Besta's paintings. Together with Karl Anton Rohan , Alois Dempf and Leopold Ziegler , he campaigned for the Christian-democratic idea of ​​the Paneuropean Union and was co-founder of the magazine Deutscheuropa in 1931 . He published some of his pictures from 1921 to 1939 in the Munich weekly magazine Jugend . From 1933–1939 he lived in his studio in Schwabing , Ainmillerstraße 13, then the couple moved to Berlin in 1940; There he painted the picture Rococo society in front of an orangery of the Sanssouci Palace . In 1941 he returned to Schwabing with his wife and lived there until the end of his life. The resting place is in the Munich forest cemetery .

In his works of art there are often female figures, girls, reapers and mythical figures such as nymphs, Diana, Daphne, Apollo and Faun taking a bath.

Works of art (selection)

  • Sitting Nude , 1910, pastel on paper
  • Dancing act in the park , oil on canvas
  • Self-portrait en face with tobacco pipe , pen drawing, 1936
  • Nude portrait of a reclining girl , oil on panel
  • Bathing nymphs in parkland , oil on panel
  • Two young reapers bathing , oil on cardboard
  • Susanna in the bath , oil on wood
  • Rococo society in front of an orangery at Sanssouci Palace , oil on canvas, 1940
  • Three bathing girls in an antique landscape are attacked by a swan , oil on panel
  • Faun and nymph , oil on panel
  • Bath scene , oil on canvas
  • Castle on the Fuschlsee
  • View of the Tegernsee
  • Still life with earthenware, brass vase and a bouquet of tulips , oil on canvas
  • Rose Festival , oil on canvas

In the weekly magazine Jugend :

  • 1921: Morning at the lake. Morning on the Lake , Volume 9, p. 197.
  • 1923: Apollo and Daphne , volume 20, p. 589.
  • 1939: Diana im Bade , Booklet 20, p. 387.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. http://matrikel.adbk.de/05older/mb_1884-1920/jahr_1908/matrikel-03495