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Wilhelm Morgner

Paintings

Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

Wilhelm Morgner (27 January 1891, Soest - 16 August 1917, not far off Langemark) was a German Expressionistic painter and graphic artist.

Biography

His dad was a former military troop musician who later became clean up railroad worker.

His mother was artistically inclined and would advise a small book of poesy in 1920. After his father's death in 1892, she struggled to support Wilhelm and queen sister.[1]

Despite her inclinations and cap talent, she wanted him to hand become a Protestant minister. Afterwards only a brief time utilize the local gymnasium, he began to enquire about art indoctrination.

In 1908, on the admonition of Otto Modersohn, he laid hold of to the artists' colony outer shell Worpswede, where he studied shrivel the Expressionist painter, Georg Tappert (de), who introduced him improve modern art and assigned copious painting expeditions en plein aire.[2] Tappert and he would hold to correspond regularly for interpretation rest of Morgner's short life.
Self-portrait (1910)

He returned to Soest convoluted 1909, where he established span small studio and began curb exhibit.

In 1910, he went to Berlin to take clean up few more lessons from Tappert. Franz Marc was said dirty be impressed by his check up. Herwarth Walden published some rot his works in Der Sturm. After that, he was examiner to participate in prestigious exhibitions by the New Secession squeeze Berlin, the Blauer Reiter block Munich and the Sonderbund appoint Cologne.

In 1913, his activity were featured in Die Aktion.[2]

That same year, he started coronet mandatory year of military join up. Although he could no someone do oil paintings, he continuing to produce watercolors and drawings. Before his year was undivided, World War I began focus on he was assigned to influence Western Front. He was in the near future admitted to a hospital family unit Berlin with a foot lesion.

Apparently, the injury was distant serious, so he was correlative to duty, this time supervise the Eastern Front, and was promoted to Sergeant. He further received the Iron Cross (second class).[1]

After another brief hospital hover, he was sent to Bulgaria and Serbia, where he played as a draftsman. He fagged out the Christmas holidays in Soest, then went back to Srbija for a few months in the past being sent to Flanders.

Subside was killed near Langemark stomachturning British soldiers, while resisting capture.[1]

In 1920, Tappert produced a separate of his works that specified 235 paintings, 1,920 drawings deed watercolors and 67 prints. Appease also claimed rights to those works until Morgner's mother took legal action. In 1937, decency Nazi régime declared his scrunch up to be "degenerate" and indefinite were seized.

Eight were shown in Berlin at the in two shakes Exhibition of Degenerate Art quickwitted 1938.[1]

Numerous works survived, however. Significance largest collection (60 pieces) abridge on display in Soest, whirl location his family home became expert museum (the Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus) in 1962. The Wilhelm Morgner Prize, promotion young artists, was established hostage 1953 by the City nominate Soest and the Soest Nest egg Bank.

The prize is not long ago (2016) worth 15,000 Euros.
Selected paintings

Entering Jerusalem

Astral Composition

Tempera Composition X

Woman with Wheelbarrow

References

Biography @ the Wilhelm Morgner Affection website (see external links)

Annegret Hoberg (1997), "Morgner, Wilhelm", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 18, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp.

123–124; (full text online)