Paul Wallat

Paul Wallat
Born (1879-06-01)1 June 1879
Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany
Died 24 November 1964(1964-11-24) (aged 85)
Sønderborg, Denmark
Occupation landscape artist, draftsman and sculptor

Paul Wallat (June 1, 1879 – November 24, 1964) was a German landscape artist, draftsman and sculptor.

Life

Paul Wallat was the son of the shoemaker Gustav Wallat and brother of the sculptor Gustav Wallat. He graduated from a painter's apprenticeship in Rostock and from 1899 to 1902 studied painting at the School of Applied Arts Hamburg. Between 1902 and 1909 he attended the Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin at the history painter Otto Brausewetter (1835-1904) and the marine- and landscapepainter Carl Saltzmann.[1]

In 1905 and 1906 Paul Wallat undertook a world tour on the MS "Charlotte" ("by the grace of the Wilhelm II, German Emperor"), later he often was in Holland and Belgium. On December 29, 1906 he received the award of the Ginsberg Foundation of the Berlin Academy. By 1917, he had his residence in Berlin, in 1918 he came to Gehlsdorf, a small village near Rostock (today a city district),[2] after 1949 he went to Sønderborg in Denmark.

Works (Selection)

Sculptures

Paintings

Paul Wallat was regularly represented with his works at the well known "Great Art Exhibition Berlin" since 1904.[3]

In 1939 a exhibition was devoted to Paul Wallat for occasion of his 60th birthday. This took place into the exhibition of Contemporary Mecklenburg painters at the Mecklenburg State Museum Schwerin. The following pictures were shown:[4]

Further reading

References

  1. Grewolls, Grete (2011). Wer war wer in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Das Personenlexikon (in German). Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag. p. 10503. ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6.
  2. Rostocker Adressbuch (address book) 1949/50: Artists und Portrait-painter: Wallat, Paul, Rostock-Gehlsdorf, Kaulbachstrasse 3.
  3. Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Kataloge (in German). GBK, today: Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (Joint Library Network).
  4. Zeitgenössische Mecklenburgische Maler, verbunden mit Paul-Wallat-Geburtstagsausstellung. Schwerin, 29. Oktober bis 19. November 1939. (in German). Museum am Alten Garten (Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum) (Ed.), Schwerin. 1939. (Contemporary Mecklenburg painters attached to a Paul Wallat birthday-exhibition)
  5. All titles included in catalogs and were freely translated from the German.

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