4125 - Paul Wilhelm, Mallows and Coneflowers

Paul Wilhelm, Mallows and Coneflowers Mallow and coneflower blooming in delicate colours against a light grey background, watercolour on Japanese paper, first half of the 20th century, slight signs of wear, mounted on backing board and framed behind glass, sheet dimensions approx. 50 x 35 cm. Artist information: born Paul Alfred Wilhelm, German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist (1886, Greiz - 1965, Radebeul), spent his childhood in Greiz, 1903-05: pupil of Paul Hermann Naumann at the Dresden School of Applied Arts; 1905-12: studied at the Dresden Academy under Richard Müller, Oskar Zwintscher and Osmar Schindler; from 1908: master pupil of Gotthardt Kuehl; 1910: first exhibition at the Emil Richter Art Salon in Dresden; worked in Niederlößnitz from 1911; 1915-18: military service; from 1922: numerous study trips to Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, as well as Salzburg and Vienna; In 1930, he was honoured with the Albrecht Dürer Prize in Nuremberg; he was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, the German Artists’ Association in Weimar and the Dresden Artists’ Association (Sezession); from 1935, he was a member of the ‘Circle of Seven’, 1944-45: military service and captivity; 1946: appointed honorary professor (Prof. h.c.); member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR; 1956: Awarded honorary citizenship of the town of Radebeul and, from 1960, an honorary pension; worked in Radebeul, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Singer, Eisold, *Artists in the GDR*, student registers of the Dresden Academy and Wikipedia.