Willy Schürmann

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Willy Schürmann (born April 27, 1913 in Leichlingen ; † June 13, 2008 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

education

Schürmann grew up in the Rhineland and attended Paul Woenne's class for writing and design at the technical and arts school in Solingen . At the same time he was trained in drawing, painting, engraving and damascene . He completed his studies in lithography . In 1937, at the age of 24, he joined Bayer AG as a graphic artist . With his childhood friend, the artist Georg Meistermann , he went on study trips to the Netherlands, Belgium and France between 1938 and 1939 and on these occasions learned foreign artists such as B. Know Henri Matisse .

Career after the war

After the war that had brought him to France, Sicily, Crete and the Balkans, he worked as a freelance painter. He set up studios in Solingen-Widdert in 1951 and in 1964 in his birthplace in Leichlingen. His first solo exhibition was in Darmstadt as early as 1946 , followed by other exhibitions in Hamburg and Cologne, among others .

As a graphic artist, Willy Schürmann designed the Aspirin advertisement for the Bayer Group in the 1950s . In 1963 he created a large wall painting and a tapestry for the Solingen theater. Above all, he made a name for himself throughout the Rhineland as a designer of glass windows and mosaics . Schürmann equipped numerous churches, for example in Solingen, Hilden , Opladen , Niederkassel , Hennef , Geistingen , Düsseldorf and Leverkusen . His abstract and garish designs, which often met with incomprehension among clerics, gradually earned him the reputation of being “the last classical modern” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) .

Willy Schürmann was a founding member of the Solingen Artists 'Association (SK) and a member of the Cologne Artists' Union.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Schürmann died, Ruhr-Nachrichten, June 13, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Schürmann, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Leichlingen (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2008
Place of death Leichlingen (Rhineland)