Werner Schramm

Werner Schramm ( born September 21, 1898 in Duisburg, † July 24, 1970 in Dusseldorf ) was a German painter of portraits, figures and landscape painter and stage designer and husband of artist Liselotte Schramm - Heckmann. Both belonged to the international artist group of Peintres de la réalité, members from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, England, Holland, Japan and the U.S. had.

Life

In his drawing teacher Fritz Werner Linde Schramm learned 16- year his future wife Liselotte Heckmann know that already received as 10 -year-old lessons there. In 1915, for example, was a drawing of Werner Schramm, Liselotte Heckmann shows at the age of ten years. From then on they worked together under the direction of Fritz Linde, who fell at the beginning of the First World War. Because he truly appreciated his former art teacher Werner Schramm helped organize an exhibition at his school to commemorate the fallen Fritz Linde, which was organized by Amélie Heckmann, the mother of Liselotte Heckmann. A year later, Werner Schramm created a folder with linoleum cuts in memory of Fritz Linde.

Later he studied in Dusseldorf and Munich. For the last years of the war, Werner Schramm was drafted and worked as a paramedic.

Between 1920 and 1925, Werner Schramm worked as a stage designer at Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann at the Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf and then in Hamborn, Mönchengladbach, Oberhausen, Gladbeck. After that, he decided to abandon the successful work on the stage, because he only wanted to dedicate free painting and both was incompatible. In 1925 he married Liselotte Schramm - Heckmann, with whom he lived for study purposes from 1925 to 1926 in Fiesole, near Florence, and from 1926 to 1931 in Meudon near Paris.

1931, the couple moved to Dusseldorf and presented in the following years their art at home and abroad.

Works

Werner Schramm has seen in his early paintings and drawings shares a commitment that he has to satisfy himself throughout his life striving unwaveringly. Disappointed by the training at the academies, he joined the experiments of expression and abstraction. He gave up his successful career as a stage and turned to his wife trying a new objectivity to. A developed during many years mixing technique in which connect to the possibilities of tempera, oil paint and resin essence glazes, similar to the use of the old German masters, he served as a basis. This technique was in interaction with the inner shape of his work, which was considered the magic of reality in color and designs, and was led against the odds of the day and the fashion of it to completion. His pictorial works found in extensive complement of drawing and graphic works.

In the context of defamation as degenerate art, the Nazis confiscated in 1937 artworks by Schramm in public art collections.

Publications

• Werner Schramm, Mappenwerk encounters, 1922, published by Galerie Alfred Flechtheim
• With Liselotte Schramm - Heckmann, Otto Brües: Werner Schramm and Liselotte Schramm - Heckmann. Ratingen 1965 ASIN: B0000BNIBW. 2nd edition. Ratingen 1976.