Walther Klemm

Walther Klemm ( born June 18, 1883 in Karlsbad, Austria - Hungary, † August 11, 1957 in Weimar ) was a German painter, printmaker and illustrator.

Life and work

Walther Klemm was born on June 18, 1883 in the Czech Karlovy Vary. After encouragement by Emil Orlik, he studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in Anton Kenner, Kolo Moser and Others At the same time, he took the art history department at the University of Vienna in Julius von Schlosser. 1903 wrote his first woodblock prints.

From 1904 to clamp involved in the exhibition of the Vienna Secession. That same year, the move was made to Prague. There he met Carl Thiemann know. In Libotz in Prague both formed a studio community. 1908 settled terminal and Thiemann on in the artists' colony at Dachau. 1910 terminal was a member of the Berlin Secession.

1913 he was appointed as a professor of graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar. In Weimar, a large number of illustrations and depictions of animals originated. Close contacts used to clamp Count Harry Kessler, Theodor Hagen, Alexander Olbricht, Ludwig von Hofmann and animal painter and writer, Boris Otto. Among his pupils were Oswald Baer, ​​Horst de Marées and Fritz Lattke. During the period of National Socialism, he participated in the art exhibition at the House of German Art in Munich. After the Second World War Walther Klemm significant achievements in rebuilding the School of Art Weimar acquired. In 1952 he was made an honorary senator of the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Weimar.

Walther Klemm died in 1957 in Weimar.