Willy Werner

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Willy Werner in his studio, 1909. Photo by Hermann Boll.

Willibald Werner (born September 7, 1868 in Berlin ; † April 8, 1931 there ) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Live and act

First he studied at the royal art school in Berlin (1884–1886), then with August Kaselowski . He then worked as a freelance portrait and genre painter, draftsman and illustrator in French-Buchholz , and from 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald . He was represented several times at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (catalogs from 1904, 1905 and 1908). He was named professor.

He died in Berlin in 1931 and was buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Works (selection)

  • Pictures from the Spreewald (facsimile print Berlin 1895)
  • Paul Lindenberg: Fritz Vogelsang. Adventure of a German cabin boy in Kiautschou (Illustrations Berlin 1899)
  • Dance break in Leipe (drawing 1901)
  • Three girls in a boat (1904)
  • In Flanders Fields (Soldiers' Grave in Poppy Field) (1915)
  • Female Half Nude (1918)
  • Frauengasse in Gdansk in winter (around 1920)
  • Old Port of Gdansk
  • View of the old town of Gdansk
  • Harbor view with sailing boats
  • late summer
  • Gdańsk - Długie Pobrzeże

literature

  • Dressler's art manual , Berlin 1913 and 1921
  • Thieme / Becker: General Lexicon of Fine Artists, Vol. 35, Leipzig 1992, p. 420

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personal data
SURNAME Werner, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1931
Place of death Berlin