WINAND VICTOR
Courtesy of the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, photographer: Trinkhaus
Winand Anton Maria Victorin short: Winand Victor (* 13 January 1918 in Schaesberg near Aachen in the Netherlands - 27 April 2014 in Reutlingen) was a German painter and graphic artist who also created colored glass concrete windows and designs for tapestries in the post-war years. The transition from representational to more abstract painting is fluid in his work. His materials and techniques are diverse.
The gallery is showing cityscapes by Winand Victor, which he began at the end of the 1970s, with several examples also created in Frankfurt. Consumer coldness and anonymity are the motifs here, façade reflections and views through glass façades form a complex spatial architecture. Victor studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1937 until he had to go to war. After returning from Russian captivity as a prisoner of war, he worked as a freelance artist. In 1948, he joined the artists' community in the former Bernstein monastery, where Grieshaber also taught. Victor lived and worked in Reutlingen until his death.
Works in public collections and buildings
Albstadt Art Museum
Glatt, Glatt Castle Culture and Museum Center
Reutlingen (art museum, city library, district administration office, clinic)
Stuttgart State Gallery
Stuttgart Art Museum
Berlin Museum of Prints and Drawings
Albertina Vienna
Albrecht Dürer House, Nuremberg
Göttweig Monastery
Victor had his first solo exhibition in Reutlingen in 1951 and his second in 1956; further exhibitions followed, most recently sales exhibitions in the gallery of Reinhold Maas, who had paintings by the artist on commission.
Solo exhibitions abroad, e.g. in:
1959 Gallery Nierendorf, Berlin
1960 Milan
1961 Zurich, Stuttgart, Munich
1968 Vienna, Linz, Paris
1973 Florence (Villa Romana), Bremen, Berlin
1976 Frankfurt
1978/79 Albstadt, Municipal Gallery
1979 Berlin
1986 Basel, Frankfurt
1990 Aarau, Wetzlar, Giessen
1993 Albstadt, Municipal Gallery
1999 Reutlingen (Retrospective)
2003 Bremen
2006 Stuttgart ("A work in six decades")
2008 Mochental Castle
2014 Glatt Castle and Reutlingen ("Painting and graphics")
Honors
- 2006 Awarded the Maria Ensle Prize by the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
- 2008 Awarded the Citizens' Medal in Gold by the City of Reutlingen
- 2013 Award of the Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon