Willy Weber (painter)

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Wilhelm "Willy" Weber (born July 18, 1895 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † June 24, 1959 there ) was a German painter of traditional style.

life and work

Weber was the son of a decorative painter from Ludwigshafen and was originally supposed to take up this profession as well. After a brief visit to the Municipal School for Graphic Arts in Munich (1911) and the State School of Applied Arts in Munich (1912), however, in 1913 he began studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There were Gabriel von Hackl , Hermann Groeber and Carl von Marr his teachers. This training was interrupted in 1915 by Weber's war effort .

Since the 1920s Weber usually spent the summer and autumn at the Chiemsee , where many landscape pictures were taken. Similar to Julius Exter , Eugen Croissant and other Palatinate artists, Weber also belongs to the category of so-called Chiemsee painters. Through trips to France, Spain and North Africa, he also discovered numerous other motifs. Last but not least, he was a faithful portrayal of his Palatinate homeland and an accurate portraitist .

In his style Weber remained committed to a realistic image conception throughout his life, which was of course brightened up by impressionistic coloring. He differs from the late impressionists from the Palatinate, such as Otto Dill and Hanns Fay , in that he never renounced drawing as a defining pictorial element.

Publicly owned works

A large part of the artistic and literary estate is in the possession of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein city archive and the Wilhelm Hack Museum there .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Weber, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1959
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein