Friedrich August Weinzheimer


Friedrich August Weinzheimer was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist.

Life

He studied from 1900 to 1902 at the Düsseldorf Academy, from 1903 to 1907 at the Academy in Berlin. From 1908 to 1917 he was active in Cologne, where his works were mostly sold by the Cologne art dealer Abels, and from 1913 to 1914 in the United States. From 1918 to 1922 he lived again in Cologne, then in Florence.
In 1905 he received the Menzel Prize, 1914 a quarter of a year's residence as part of the Villa Romana Prize which he could no longer compete because of the outbreak of the First World War. At the art historical meaningful ArmoryShow 1913 Weinzheimer was represented next to Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and other representatives of the modern with two works. Weinzheimer 1909 co-founder of the Cologne Artists' Association, whose chairman he was until 1911. Later he was active in the secession, the Cologne Secession. His signature was F.A. Weinzheimer. Weinzheimer's main work is the cycle "Dante's Inferno".
In 1937 six of his works in Germany were demonstrably confiscated from public collections as part of the Nazi campaign “Degenerate Art”. However, he was allowed to continue exhibiting.
In 2013, two of his works were exhibited by the New York Historical Society.
Works confiscated from public collections in Germany as “degenerate” in 1937
  • Love / couple
  • Carrying the Cross
  • Two naked people
  • Mass grave
  • The Bolshevik
  • Dancing Couple
Other works

Exhibitions

1911, November - December: 23rd Exhibition of the Berlin Secession, Drawing Arts, Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kürfürstendamm 208/9
1912, May - September: International Art Exhibition of the Specialist Association of West German Art Friends and Artists at Cologne, Cologne, Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Aachener Tor
1912, November to December: 25th Exhibition of the Berlin Secession, Drawing Arts, Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kürfürstendamm 208/9
1913: Cölner Secession, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
1912: Kunsthütte Chemnitz
1913, April: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1913, February - March: International Exhibition of Modern Art, New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry
1913, March - April: International Exhibition of Modern Art, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago
1913, April - May: International Exhibition of Modern Art, Boston, Copley Hall
1913, October - November: Opening exhibition, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Gemäldegalerie des Kölnischen Kunstvereins
1914, February - March: International exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen,
1914, May, Collections: Schmidt-Rottluff / Alexander Kanoldt / F.A. Weinzheimer / L.L. Wulf. Sculptures, Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt
1921, March - October: Exhibition German Art in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
1914, July: "New Art" Hans Goltz, Munich
1940: Great German Art Exhibition, Munich, House of German Art

Literature