Five Children
Willem Grimm (Darmstadt-Eberstadt 1904 - Hamburg 1986)
Lot-No. 144
Red chalk drawing, 27 x 37 cm, lo. middle monogr. and dat. W. G. 7.X.63, lo. ri. inscribed 'statt der 2 Tote, 5 lebende 12.11.63', matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Figure and landscape painter, apprenticeship as litographer at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, after sojourn in Worpswede 1922 he studied at the Hamburg Werkkunstschule under W. Titze, was promoted by Rosa Schapire, member of the Darmstadt a. the Hamburg secession, the style of which he helped to form, 1946 he became professor at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule, in 1959 he was awarded the Edwin Scharff award, 2004 retrospective in the Hamburg Kunsthalle. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum), Schleswig (SHLM), Marburg, Oldenburg a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Bruhns a. others.
Willem Grimm: Five Children
Willem Grimm (Darmstadt-Eberstadt 1904 - Hamburg 1986)
Five Children
Lot-No. 144
Red chalk drawing, 27 x 37 cm, lo. middle monogr. and dat. W. G. 7.X.63, lo. ri. inscribed 'statt der 2 Tote, 5 lebende 12.11.63', matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Figure and landscape painter, apprenticeship as litographer at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, after sojourn in Worpswede 1922 he studied at the Hamburg Werkkunstschule under W. Titze, was promoted by Rosa Schapire, member of the Darmstadt a. the Hamburg secession, the style of which he helped to form, 1946 he became professor at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule, in 1959 he was awarded the Edwin Scharff award, 2004 retrospective in the Hamburg Kunsthalle. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum), Schleswig (SHLM), Marburg, Oldenburg a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Bruhns a. others.