Willy Becker (painter)
Willy Becker (* 1903 in Dresden ; † June 12, 1987 ibid) was a German landscape painter who mainly preferred motifs from the Eastern Ore Mountains.
As a teenager he made his first sketches and watercolors in the Ore Mountains. Between 1925 and 1931 he studied painting in Italy and Switzerland before returning to Dresden. Further study trips took him to Norway, the Carpathian Mountains and Spain. Becker always felt a connection with the Ore Mountains.
He took part in the Second World War as a Wehrmacht soldier. After his return from the war, he found his studio, which had been destroyed by the bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, in which many of his works had been destroyed.
His typical works include watercolors of pointed gabled Erzgebirge houses in Zinnwald-Georgenfeld, as well as street trees marked by the weather. a. sold in the B. Koestler art dealer in Munich. He described himself as a painter of the Ore Mountains.
literature
- Rikarda Groß : Willy Becker - a painter from the Ore Mountains . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 2000/1, pp. 2–3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1987 |
| Place of death | Dresden |