Wolf Bloem
Wolfgang "Wolf" Hermann Bloem (born December 3, 1896 in Düsseldorf , † April 17, 1971 in Rodenkirchen near Cologne ) was a German landscape painter , watercolorist and graphic artist .
Life
Bloem studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1914 and 1915 . There were Ludwig Keller and William Döringer his teachers. From 1916 to 1919 he lived in Switzerland . Then he attended until 1924, the School of Arts drawing and painting of Moritz Heymann in Munich . There he later became a member of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and the exhibition management in the Haus der Kunst .
Bloem's friends included the writers Hermann Hesse and Rainer Maria Rilke . He was sponsored by the painter and art collector Clifford Holmead Phillips . He collected his works and exhibited them in the Austro-German Moderns exhibition in the Montross Gallery in New York City in 1934 .
Bloem died in 1971 at the age of 74 in his apartment in Rodenkirchen. He was widowed by Irene Bertha Theodolinde Hanemann, whom he married in Munich in 1945.
literature
- Bloem, wolf . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Seemann, Leipzig 1953–1962.
- Bloem, wolf . In: Horst Ludwig (arrangement): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century . Munich 1993, Volume 5, p. 92.
- Bloem, wolf . In: Cornelia Reiter, Stephan Koja, Hella Márkus (arr.): Art of the 20th Century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 20th Century . Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Ed.), Vienna 1993, Volume 1 (A – F), p. 87.
- Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.
Web links
- Wolf Bloem , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Wolf Bloem , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Death certificate No. 62 dated April 19, 1971, Rodenkirchen registry office. LAV NRW R civil status register, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
- ↑ Alexia Pooth: Art, Space, Authorship. The estate of the American painter CH Phillips (1889–1975) from an autographical perspective . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2465-6 , pp. 228, 295 (footnote 233), 309 ( Google Books )
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SURNAME | Bloem, wolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bloem, Wolfgang Hermann (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter, watercolorist and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1896 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th April 1971 |
Place of death | Cologne |