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Wilhelm Morgner

Paintings

Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

Wilhelm Morgner (27 January 1891, Soest - 16 August 1917, near Langemark) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist.

Biography

His father was a former military band musician who later became a railroad worker.

His mother was artistically inclined and would publish a small book of poetry in 1920. After his father's death in 1892, she struggled to support Wilhelm and his sister.[1]

Despite her inclinations and his talent, she wanted him to become a Protestant minister. After only a brief time at the local gymnasium, he began to enquire about art classes.

In 1908, on the advice of Otto Modersohn, he moved to the artists' colony in Worpswede, where he studied with the Expressionist painter, Georg Tappert (de), who introduced him to modern art and assigned numerous painting expeditions en plein aire.[2] Tappert and he would continue to correspond regularly for the rest of Morgner's short life.
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