(1889-1975)
威廉·盧德格爾·勃蘭登伯格1889年12月22日生于埃森,1975年1月8日卒于克雷費爾德,是出自杜塞爾多夫藝術學院的德國新客觀派畫家。
1908年,盧德格爾進入杜塞爾多夫藝術學院學習繪畫。著名畫家威利·斯帕茲(Willy Spatz)、阿道夫·明澤爾(Adolf Münzer)、朱利葉斯·保羅·約翰尼斯(Julius Paul Junghanns)、路德維希·凱勒(Ludwig Keller)和阿道夫·曼臣(Adolf Maennchen)都曾是他的老師。他還曾跟隨約翰尼斯出國深造。
1913年,盧德格爾成為杜塞爾多夫藝術家協(xié)會Malkasten的成員。第一次世界大戰(zhàn)期間,他中斷了藝術研究,并從1917年起擔任某輕騎兵團的軍官。兩年后,他回到學校繼續(xù)學習,成為了明澤爾的碩士研究生,并于當年完婚。
1921年,他完成了學業(yè)。然而畢業(yè)第二年他卻迎來了人生低谷--他的妻子和父親相繼離開人世。這一年心力交瘁的盧德格爾搬回了克雷費爾德,并且直到1945年一直生活在父親留下的住所。
所幸的是,盧德格爾并沒有就此一蹶不振、放棄對繪畫藝術的追求,直到20世紀40年代,他一直致力于運用印象派繪畫技巧探索新客觀派繪畫的創(chuàng)作。1934-1944的十年間,盧德格爾擔任了埃森福克旺德國工藝碩士學院的教師。
然而二戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)前夕,1937年盧德格爾加入了德國社會主義工人黨(NSDAP)。1945年,當第二次世界大戰(zhàn)結束后不久,他的住所“Wilhelmshof”被英國軍政府沒收,近一百幅畫作因此丟失。
據說盧德格爾曾在戰(zhàn)后加入“下萊茵藝術家協(xié)會(NiederrheinischeKünstlergilde)”。盧德格爾的繪畫作品題材豐富,包含靜物、肖像,而風景作品則取材于工業(yè)場景、河流、城市景觀以及日常的園林場景,但尤以靜物繪畫著名。
1920-1973年間,盧德格爾的作品曾在許多重要展覽展出,如定期參展Malkasten藝術家協(xié)會的展覽,多次參加杜塞爾多夫的大型藝術展覽和慕尼黑的大型德國藝術展覽。在他逝世以后,1976年他的作品被Paffrath畫廊、杜塞爾多夫、HP畫廊、Velbert-Langenberg等展出,2011年林恩城堡博物館中心也展出了他的作品。
Wilhelm "Willi" Ludger Brandenberg (born December 22, 1889 in Essen, ? January 8, 1975 in Krefeld) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School and the New Objectivity.
Brandenberg, son of the coal dealer Wilhelm Georg Brandenberg (1866-1922), moved in 1892 with his family to Krefeld, where it brought the father to some fortune. In 1906 he went to Dusseldorf. After futile attempts, he was admitted to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1908. Willy Spatz, Adolf Münzer, Julius Paul Junghanns, Ludwig Keller and Adolf Maennchen were his teachers. With Junghanns he undertook study trips abroad. In 1913 he became a member of the Dusseldorf artist association Malkasten. During the First World War, he interrupted the study of art and served from 1917 as an officer in a hussar regiment. In 1919 he continued his studies and became a master student at Münzer. In 1919 he married. In 1921 he finished his studies. His wife died in 1922, and his father died the same year. This year he moved back to Krefeld-Bockum, where he lived until 1945 the paternal "Wilhelmshof", then a house on a neighboring property. In 1934 he became a teacher at the Folkwang master school (Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks) in Essen. This activity he exercised until 1944. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. Shortly after the end of the war in 1945, the British military administration confiscated Brandenberg's residence, the "Wilhelmshof", whereby around one hundred of his paintings were lost. In the post-war period he is said to have become a member of the "Niederrheinische Künstlergilde".
Brandenberg created some still lifes, few portraits, especially landscapes, including many industrial images, river and city views and prosaic garden scenes in a style of New Objectivity influenced by Impressionist painting techniques, which he remained committed to well into the 1940s. Between 1920 and 1973, Brandenberg exhibited at many exhibitions, regularly at exhibitions of the artists' association Malkasten, at major Düsseldorf art exhibitions and at major German art exhibitions in Munich (1938, 1941, 1942, 1943). Posthumously, his works were on exhibitions in the years 1976 (gallery Paffrath, Dusseldorf, and HP gallery, Velbert-Langenberg) and 2011 (Museum Center Burg Linn) to see.