Willy Eberl

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Willy Eberl (born December 11, 1899 in Grumbach , † December 9, 1947 in Freital ) was a painter and art collector .

Life

Since childhood he had known Hellmuth Heinz , who later became the Freital museum director. While attending the Dresden School of Applied Arts (with Max Feldbauer and Paul Rößler ) he met Otto Dix .

In Freital he got by with the design of wallpaper. Through his acquaintance with the young avant-garde artists, he succeeded in uniting a top-class collection with works by them. In addition to the Dix environment, it includes works by Carl Bantzer , Otto Gussmann and Georg Lührig .

His own paintings were auctioned: Harvest landscape in Quohren (1942), An der Wiederitz (1943), still life with gladioli (1947) and a watercolor by Hainsdorf (1934). In 1940 he had his wife Rosa von Dix portrayed.

From 1936 to 1938 Erich Rudolph worked as a designer in Eberl's studio in Dresden. His draftsman Siegfried Ernst Bretschneider (* 1912) was taken prisoner of war. After 1945 Joachim Gelfert (* 1931) began his apprenticeship as a decorator painter here.

After Eberl's suicide in 1947, the city fathers negotiated a lifetime pension with the widow in 1949. His collection formed the basis for the Freital Municipal Collections at Burgk Castle .

Erich Rudolph took over the studio for three years and worked on ceramics and painting.

literature

  • Frank, Volker: Eberl, Willy . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 16, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22756-6 , p. 553.
  • Corinna Halbrehder: Eberl, Willy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 4 .
  • Lisa Werner-Art: In beautiful competition with Dresden: 25 years of the Freital Municipal Art Collection. In: Dresdner Latest News , March 17, 2016, p. 9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heike Schwarzer: Museum of the Week , Deutschlandradio Kultur , May 11, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Eberl, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Grumbach
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1947
Place of death Freital