Willy Knoop

Willy Knoop (born March 7, 1888 in Lütjenburg ; † March 16, 1966 in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel ) was a German painter and an honorary citizen of his hometown.

Life

Willy Knoop was self-taught as a figurative painter. Between the wars in Hamburg he worked as a watercolorist, but also in oil, in large formats and in boisterous colors. Knoop was part of the Hamburg Secession and associated there with Erich Hartmann , Willem Grimm , Karl Kluth and Fritz Kronenberg . National Socialism not only brought the end of secession, but also in 1937 Knoop was removed from the list of visual artists and an exhibition ban. An attempt to emigrate to Yugoslavia followed, and in 1938 he moved to Vienna, where he married his Hamburg student Margret Knoop-Schellbach (1913-2004). After the Second World War, both returned to Lütjenburg in 1946 and initially lived in Hohwacht . His wife worked as an art teacher in Kiel for twenty years from 1952, after having previously contributed to the living as a puppeteer for two years. Willy Knoop was buried on April 2, 1966 in the Lütjenburg cemetery.

Vollmer mentions exhibitions for Knoop in the Kunsthalle Bremen , the Kieler Kunsthalle and on the Museumberg Flensburg .

Honors

• Honorary citizen of the city of Lütjenburg in Holstein.

literature

• Knoop, Willy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 72 .
• Knoop, Willy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 150 .
• Curt Stoermer : Obituary for a painter in the Lübeck yearbook Der Wagen 1967, p. 112/113 (with illus. Portrait of Gerda Z. )
• Knoop, Willy. In: Volker Detlef Heydorn : Painter in Hamburg. Volume 1: 1886-1945. Professional Association of Visual Artists, Hamburg (ed.). Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0230-1 , pp. 130, 169 (B / W Fig. Autumn day on the Baltic Sea , watercolor, 1935).
• Knoop, Willi. In: Volker Detlef Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg. Volume 3: 1966-1974. Professional Association of Visual Artists, Hamburg (ed.). Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0290-5 , p. 131.
• Knoob, Willy. In: Berend Harke Feddersen: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstler-Lexikon. With the collaboration of Lilianne Grams and Frauke Gloyer, Nordfriisk Instituut , Bredstedt 1984, ISBN 3-88007-124-1 , p. 100.
• Maike Bruhns : Knoop, Willy (Willi). In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , pp. 237-238.
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artist - Volume 3: In the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism 1918-1945 . Special publications by the Society for Kiel City History edited by Jürgen Jensen, Volume 88, Boyens, Heide 2019, ISBN 978-3-8042-1493-4 , p. 241.

Web links

• Website about Willy Knoop