Woldemar Friedrich
Woldemar Friedrich ( born August 20, 1846 in Gnadau; † September 16, 1910 in Berlin) was a German painter and illustrator. He was a member of the Willing houses artists' colony.
Life
Friedrich was formed in 1863 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin with Carl Steffeck and went in 1865 to Weimar, where he continued his studies with Arthur von Ramberg, Charles Verlat and Bernhard Plockhorst. In the German -Prussian war of 1870 and 1871 he was also active as a draftsman, especially for the magazine home and provided the illustrations for George Hiltls work on the Franco-German war. After a trip to Italy in 1873, he returned back to Weimar, where he worked mainly as an illustrator, some decorative paintings ( including in Hummelshain Castle ) uses and also painted some genre paintings. In 1881 he became a professor at the art school in Weimar.
In 1885 he was appointed as a teacher for the subject of life drawing at the Art Academy in Berlin, where he worked with the painting of the dome at the National Exhibition building took off a proof of his talent for the monumental painting in the following year. He received in 1886 the Little Golden Medal of the Berlin art exhibition and then took a trip to India, the fruits of which were in addition to a series of watercolors and paintings, the illustrations for the work six months in India ( Leipzig 1893, with text by E. of Leipzig ).
From his later decorative paintings of the Diet of Worms in the auditorium of the high school in Wittenberg, the allegorical paintings in the bookseller house in Leipzig ( art and science, bookstores and book printing ) and a mural for the District House Niederbarnim in Berlin return of citizens of Bernau after defeating are the Hussites highlight in April 1432. Woldemar Friedrich was a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts.
In 1898 Woldemar Friedrich was commissioned by Ludwig Stollwerck member of the jury for the evaluation of designs from contest for Stollwerck Collecting pictures and scrapbooks. Other judges were Professors Franz Skarbina, Emil Doepler Younger and Bruno Schmitz of Berlin as well as a partner in the firm Stollwerck.
Illustrated books
- Georg Hiltl: The French war of 1870 and 1871 Bielefeld and Leipzig, Velhagen and Klasing, 1871
- August Gottlob Eberhard: Annette and the chickens. New Pocket Edition. 25th Edition Leipzig, Gebhardt, (1875 )
- Karl Immerman: The Oberhof. Idyll of the "Münchhausen", Berlin, Antwerp 1875
- Goethe 's works: Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or renunciate, Volume 13, Berlin, Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1876.
- K. Trebitz: animal tales for thoughtful readers, Wolfenbüttel: Julius Zwißler Publisher 1879
- Hans hop: My uncle Don Juan ( 1880)
- Woldemar Friedrich: Goethe's life in pictures. According to the biography of G. H. Lewes. In ink drawings by Woldemar Friedrich, professor at the Great Ducal Art School in Weimar, Munich, Adolf Friedrich Ackermann Art Publishers, 1885
- Brigitte Augusti ( di Auguste Plehn ): Edel Falk and helleborine. Cultural-historical narrative of the 13th century. For the more mature girls ages, Leipzig: Hirt, 1886
- Brigitte Augusti: Wake of the free imperial city, Leipzig Ferdinand Hirt and Sohn Verlag 1886
- Julius Wolff: The Wild Hunter ( 1887)
- Fedor von Koppen: The German Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck and the places of his work, Leipzig: Titze 1889
- Woldemar Schwebel: The Hohenzollern. Portraits of the Brandenburg- Prussian rulers, Berlin Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1890
- Brigitte Augusti: twin sisters. Experiences of two German girls in Scandinavia and England. For the more mature girls ages. Ferdinand Hirt, Wroclaw, 1891
- Brigitte Augusti: Under palm trees. Descriptions of the life and the mission work of the Europeans in the East Indies. Leipzig, Hirt & Sohn. 2nd edition, 1893.
- Six months in India ( 1893), with text by E. of Leipzig
- Friedrich August Leo: Of many little bits and pieces that make your parents worry .. Nuremberg, Ströfer, nd (ca. 1895)
- Carl Röchling & Richard Knötel & Woldemar Friedrich: The Queen Luise in 50 pictures for young and old, Paul Kittel ( ed. ), Berlin ( 1896)
- A [ nna ] Becker: In the wild, publishing Trowitzsch & Sohn Berlin, ( 1899)
- Anna Stein ( di Margaret Wulff ): book of life, Winckelmann, Bln, ca, 1900
- Johann von Wildenradt: Johann von Renys, the struggle to Marienburg. A story from the time of the Teutonic Order in Prussia, München: Lehmann 1899
- Karl August Müller: Rubezahl, the lord of Risengebirges. For the youth told, Leipzig, Abel & Müller ( 1900 )