Josef Wedewer

Josef Wedewer (born March 24, 1896, in Lüdinghausen; died December 28, 1979, in the same place) was a painter and art educator.

From 1916 to 1918, Wedewer served as a gunner in World War I, with a stay in a military hospital in Koblenz. After the war, he studied at the Kunstakademie Kassel from 1919 to 1923, initially with landscape painter Curt Witte and from 1922 with Ewald Düllberg. Following a brief expressive phase, he became a representative of the Neue Sachlichkeit style. He undertook study trips to Paris, Switzerland, and Italy, among other places. In 1924, he began working as a drawing teacher at the Schlaun-Gymnasium in Münster. He married his wife Thea in 1927. That same year, he co-founded the group "Junges Westfalen" along with fellow artists Theodor Hölscher and Hans Kraft, and became a member of the Westdeutschen Künstlerbund. Before 1933, he exhibited in galleries such as Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin; Galerie Neumann-Nierendorff, Berlin; and Galerie Bruno Cassirer, Berlin. From 1933 onwards, he primarily created dark-toned atmospheric landscapes and cityscapes. Beginning in 1947, he painted his first abstract works, which increasingly incorporated collage elements from the 1960s onward. In the later years of his life, he spent time in Ascona and returned to landscape painting.

Nationalgalerie Berlin
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall
Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum am Ehrenhof
Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum
Kultusministerium NRW
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich
Stadt Lüdinghausen
Museum der Stadt Lünen
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und
Kulturgeschichte
Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Stadt Soest, Wilhelm-Morgner Haus
Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten