Josef Wedewer - Large naive oil painting "Black way" by famous artist - signed

• A typical, highly detailed, and naive painting by Josef Wedewer from the 1930s. The depicted street (Schwarzer Weg) leads through a city in a long curve, as seen by the viewer. The houses appear to be quite uninhabited, and the trees bear few leaves. Two people move independently of each other through the street. It seems as if the people don't know each other or don't want to get to know each other.

ARTIST

Josef Wedewerer (* 24 March 1896 in Lüdinghausen; † 28 December 1979 there) was a painter and art teacher.

From 1916 to 1918, Wedewer served in World War I as a soldier, spending a period in the hospital in Kobenz. He then studied at the Kassel Art Academy from 1919 to 1923, initially with the landscape painter Curt Witte and, from 1922, with Ewald Dullberg. After a brief period of expression, he became a representative of De Stijl New Business. He made study trips to Paris, Switzerland, and Italy. In 1924, he began working as an art teacher at the Schlaun Gymnasium in Münster. In 1927, he married his wife Thea. In the same year, he was co-founder of the "Junges Westfalen" group together with the Halle artist Theodor Hölscher and Hans Kraft and a member of the West German Arts Association. Before 1933, he had exhibitions at the Alfred Flecheim Gallery, Berlin; Neumann Nierendorff Gallery, Berlin; and Galerie Bruno Cassirer, Berlin. From 1933 onwards, he mainly created dark, atmospheric landscapes and cityscapes. From 1947 onwards, he painted his first abstract works, which from the 1960s onwards were increasingly supplemented with collage elements. In the last phase of his life, he remained in Ascona and was again concerned with landscape painting.



Museums

National Gallery Berlin
Bielefeld Art Gallery
Dortmund, Museum am Oostwal
Düsseldorf, art museum in Ehrenhof
Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum
Minister of Culture NRW
Leverkusen, Castle of the Stedelijk Museum Morsbroich
City of Lüdinghausen
Lünen City Museum
Urban Kunsthal Mannheim
Münster, Westphalian Museum of Art and Cultural History
Urban Art Gallery Recklinghausen
City of Soest, Wilhelm Morgner House
Witten's Arctic Museum