Willy Wenz
Wilhelm "Willy" Wenz (born October 3, 1893 in Munich ; † August 20, 1971 there ) was a German painter .
Life
From April 1918 Willy Wenz studied at the Munich Art Academy with Angelo Jank , and later with Carl Hans Schrader-Velgen and Richard Kaiser. In 1922, together with his colleague from the academy, Albert Gustav Bunge, he founded the “Society for Applied Art” (which merged in 1924 with the “Neues Münchner Kunstgewerbe” society to form the “Neue Münchnerkunststätte AG”).
Wenz mainly made pastels and watercolors. The main motifs of the Bavarian landscape and lake painter can be found around Lake Starnberg , in the Murnauer Moos , in the Karwendel and on the Zugspitze . Willy Wenz represents the older traditional Munich school .
His sister Erna Reuter managed her brother's estate until 1991.
literature
- Matriculation book 3 (1884–1920) of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
- Bavarian Bibliography 1971–1973. CH Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-40610607-2 .
- Article mood pictures from love In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 25, 1988, page III
- Article chat at the samovar. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 16, 1988, page 13
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| SURNAME | Wenz, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenz, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1971 |
| Place of death | Munich |