4126 - Paul Wilhelm, Summer Flowers

Paul Wilhelm, Summer Flowers Composition of various summer flowers, watercolour on Japanese paper, first half of the 20th century, signed ‘P. Wilhelm", some signs of wear, framed under a mat and behind glass, mat dimensions approx. 39.5 x 34 cm. Artist’s biography: 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 awarded 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.