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Walter Kurt Wiemken
Walter Kurt Wiemken

Walter Kurt Wiemken

Swiss, 1907 – 1940
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Walter Kurt Wiemken was a Swiss painter.

Walter Kurt Wiemken was born in Basel in 1907 to German parents who had gained Swiss citizenship in 1898. He became seriously ill with polio at the age of four months, which led to a lifelong disability. He lived in his parents' home until his death and also built his art studio there. His father owned a lithography business.

He studied at the vocational school in Basel from 1923 to 1927, where his graphics teacher was the painter Fritz Baumann, the founder of the Expressionist art group Das neue Leben (The new life). Accordingly, Wiemken's illustrations from this time show a clear Expressionist influence, and he associated with the Gruppe Rot-Blau [de], which had been founded by students of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

In 1927, he spent the summer semester at the State University of Applied Arts in Munich, where he was taught by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Richard Klein. After his stay in Munich, he travelled to Paris with the painter Otto Abt, where he created his last Expressionist pictures. These were almost exclusively gloomy street scenes. After this, he turned to Impressionism. In 1928 and 1929, he travelled to the artists' colony of Collioure in Roussillon and to Ticino with lifelong friends Abt and Walter Bodmer. During these trips he painted fantastic landscapes. He and his friends visited Collioure several times until 1939.

In 1933 he co-founded the Gruppe 33 with his friends Abt and Bodmer, as a protest against conservative trends in Swiss art and architecture (especially in Basel). Gruppe 33 were also staunchly anti-fascist. From 1936 to 1937 he was influenced by his friend Bodmer's constructivist art. He travelled to Belgium in 1937 and became interested in the surrealist art of James Ensor.

On 30 December 1940, he was reported missing after he went out alone for a walk. He had died from falling into the Breggia Gorge near Castel San Pietro and his corpse was not found until 23 January 1941.

He was internationally praised and exhibited and was one of the artists whose works were displayed at documenta 1 in Kassel (1955).

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Sanatorium

Sanatorium (1930)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
View of the ‘Batterie’ toward Basel

View of the ‘Batterie’ toward Basel (1940)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Landscape
View from Fort Miradou in Collioure

View from Fort Miradou in Collioure (1932)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Landscape
Girl in the Garden

Girl in the Garden (1929)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Landscape
Evening on the Seine

Evening on the Seine (1930)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Landscape
Cycle

Cycle (1940)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Landscape
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (1939)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Figurative
Black Flags

Black Flags (1939)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Figurative
Still Life with Lemon and Grape

Still Life with Lemon and Grape (1929)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Skelette

Skelette (1932)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Coherences (Study for Wallpainting)

Coherences (Study for Wallpainting) (1935)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Old Woman in Greenhouse

Old Woman in Greenhouse (1936)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Morning

Morning (1939)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Life

Life (1935)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Liebespaar

Liebespaar (1933)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Harlequin

Harlequin (1925)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Greenhouse

Greenhouse (1939)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Gegensätze II (Danse)

Gegensätze II (Danse) (1934)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Die Frau des Gehenkten

Die Frau des Gehenkten (1931)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract
Cross Section of a House

Cross Section of a House (1931)

Walter Kurt Wiemken (Swiss, 1907 – 1940)
Abstract

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