Willy Schulz-Demmin

Willy Schulz [-Demmin] , also Willi , (born January 14, 1892 in Demmin ; † January 13, 1974 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German landscape and portrait painter and restorer .

Artistic career

After the war had been interrupted in the First World War , Schulz-Demmin completed his art studies in 1924 at the Berlin University of Fine Arts with Professors Arthur Kampf and Paul Plontke , which he had started before the war in 1912. Parallel to his studies, he worked as a freelance artist and, in addition to various restoration jobs, was also involved in copying old masters in the museums of Berlin and Dresden . He was represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition with portraits, still lifes and landscapes. He also exhibited in Dresden. Schulz-Demmin also worked as a graphic designer for advertising and began working as a freelance restorer.

In 1938 he set up a teaching studio for animation for Ufa , which he also headed.

In World War II, his was the studio in Berlin destroyed. After the war, Schulz-Demmin settled in Lübeck and worked there primarily as a restorer for museums, monument preservation and some churches in Schleswig-Holstein .

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 .

Web links

• Literature about Willy Schulz-Demmin in the state bibliography MV