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Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels | |
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| Born | (1830-04-13)13 April 1830 |
| Died | 26 March 1904(1904-03-26) (aged 73) |
| Occupation | history painter |
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Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels ([ˈpʌu̯əls]; 13 April 1830,Ekeren – 26 March 1904,Dresden) was a Belgianhistory painter who lived and worked in Germany.
From 1842 to 1850, he studied at theRoyal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), underGustave Wappers andNicaise De Keyser, where he became an outstandingcolorist. In 1852 he won thePrix de Rome (Belgium) for his paintingCoriolanus at Rome and was able to spend four years studying in Italy.
From 1862 to 1872, he was the Professor of History Painting at theWeimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School.Leon Pohle,Max Liebermann andCarl Rodeck were among his students there. This period was especially productive for him and he completed seven large wall panels at theWartburg, depicting the life ofMartin Luther.
After a short stay in Belgium, he returned to Germany, where he became a professor at theDresden Academy of Fine Arts. His students there includedLudwig von Hofmann,Osmar Schindler,Paul Thumann andOskar Zwintscher. During this period he also executed six large historical wall panels at theFürstenschule inMeissen.
From 1870 to 1881, he produced what was considered his greatest work: twelve frescoes in the upper part of theYpres Cloth Hall, which had been left incomplete byCharles de Groux. They depicted scenes of Ypres' history from 1187 to 1383.[1] Unfortunately, these works (and most of the Cloth Hall) were destroyed during World War I. In 2000, the city of Ypres acquired six paintings by Pauwels for their Municipal Art Museum at a cost of 3,250,000Belgian Francs (approximately 80,565Euros)[2]
In 1930, Ekeren named a street in his honor and installed a memorial stone.[3]
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