Wolfgang Schulte (painter)

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Wolfgang Schulte (born September 15, 1911 in Cologne ; † December 24, 1936 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Career

Wolfgang Schulte was born on September 15, 1911 in Cologne as the son of Georg August and Anna Maria Schulte . He received his school education at the high school in Cologne-Deutz.

On October 2, 1928, he took his entrance exam at the Cologne factory schools . He notes in his diary: “The first day of the exam is up. The theme was harvest. I brought corn mowers, etc. I am not happy with the work because I should have used the shade more. Drawing is more of a sketch. Otherwise I seem to have made good use of the prescribed space. ”He was accepted and studied with Richard Seewald from 1928 to 1931 and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from October 1931 to 1933 . His teachers included the sculptor Alexander Zschokke , the painter Heinrich Nauen and Ewald Mataré .

Wolfgang Schulte introduced himself to the academy members with the words: “My name is Wolfgang Schulte and I am a nihilist .” This earned him the nickname “Nilte”, which he also signed with. From 1931 to 1936 he traveled to southern Germany and often stayed in the Eifel for several months . Wolfgang Schulte committed suicide on Christmas Eve 1936.

style

Many of his works from the van der Grinten collection, landscapes and portraits, were created in the Eifel. His mainly graphic work, which is influenced by the late Expressionist era, was given to the van der Grinten collection ( Museum Schloss Moyland ) by friends .

“The weighty bundle of landscape compositions, numerically the largest focus of his estate, combines components of the expressionist pictorial order in a special way, whereby the individual achievement exceeds the integration into the general stylistic connection of time and current. Particularly in the studies of the Eifel landscape, varying the same situation several times in succession, the ability to translate immediate impressions into a definitive form without stylization is revealed. And that alone in the linear skeleton, without clayey liabilities. Schulte's drawing hand also formulates succinctly in the spontaneity of the moment. The viewer cannot escape his generous determination. At the same time, his work is undeniably timely. The expressionism of the second phase, bounded by the end of the war and National Socialism, is present in every aspect. ... Not only that his creative ability and level also put his work at the side of his great contemporaries, the coherence and abundance of motifs and themes remove all casualness. ”Source: Hans van der Grinten , Museum Schloss Moyland

“Some oil paintings and colored drawings by Schulte show dream landscapes with floating trees, the compositional arrangement of which suggests echoes of Marc Chagall . Such influences can also be traced before 1930 in the work of Jankel Adler , with which Wolfgang Schulte had lessons in 1932. ... The diversity of his drawings ranges from academic, detailed execution and decorative design to completely free and light sketches that capture the fleeting impression. His personal handwriting, which can be cautiously decorative, lively, dynamic or even nervous with small lines, gives the overall impression of a virtuoso graphic appropriation of the visible world. ”Source: A. Theyhsen, Museum Schloß Moyland

Fellow students from Cologne factory schools with Richard Seewald

Exhibitions

  • Wolfgang Schulte (1911–1936) - drawings . January 19 - April 9, 2003, Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau, Germany

literature

  • Wolfgang Schulte. In: Woodcuts of German Expressionism. Published by the Friends of Museum Schloß Moyland e. V., Bedburg-Hau 1996, pp. 340-344.
  • Wolfgang Schulte. published by the Friends of Museum Schloß Moyland e. V. 1996. Bedburg-Hau 1996. (Published in the series: Selection catalogs of the Museum Schloß Moyland collection. )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Annette Theyhsen, Museum Schloß Moyland.
personal data
SURNAME Schulte, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1936
Place of death Cologne