Ernest Weiers

On Ernst Weiers (09/17/1909 Oespel – 06/03/1978 Bernried):

Painter, draftsman, graphic artist; 1926 acquaintance with Christian Friedrich Rohlfs

Weiers worked as a glass painter for Jan Thorn Prikker; friendship with 

Karl Friedrich Schmidt-Rottluff ; 1929-33 attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy (with Heinrich Campendonk), finally master student of Paul Ernst Klee   

In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland and initially lived in Bern, later in Ascona; In 1935 he was expelled to Germany, although Eduard Freiherr von der Heydt gave a bond for Weiers; until 1939 he lived in Berlin, Schapdetten and finally moved to Bernried; he restricted his artistic activities; 1936 marriage to the actress Grete Lange-Kosak; the couple lived in Bernried from then on; 26.12. 1937 birth of son Michael; In 1937, during the "Degenerate Art" campaign, a woodcut by Weier was confiscated from the inventory of the municipal art collections in Duisburg; 1940-45 military service; 1945-49 Russian prisoner of war; after 1949 he lived and worked in Bernried; after his return he was mainly supported and promoted by the gallery owners Günther Franke (Munich) and Alex Vömel (Düsseldorf); despite his numerous exhibitions and the attention they attracted, Weiers lived a secluded life; 1959 trip to Elba; in the late 1950s he was commissioned by the Faber-Castell family to furnish the family chapel with stained glass windows; in the following years he received increasing commissions for the design of churches and public buildings; in the 1960s/70s he mainly painted landscapes prisoner of war; after 1949 he lived and worked in Bernried; after his return he was mainly supported and promoted by the gallery owners Günther Franke (Munich) and Alex Vömel (Düsseldorf); despite his numerous exhibitions and the attention they attracted, Weiers lived a secluded life; 1959 trip to Elba; in the late 1950s he was commissioned by the Faber-Castell family to furnish the family chapel with stained glass windows; in the following years he received increasing commissions for the design of churches and public buildings; in the 1960s/70s he mainly painted landscapes prisoner of war; after 1949 he lived and worked in Bernried; after his return he was mainly supported and promoted by the gallery owners Günther Franke (Munich) and Alex Vömel (Düsseldorf); despite his numerous exhibitions and the attention they attracted, Weiers lived a secluded life; 1959 trip to Elba; in the late 1950s he was commissioned by the Faber-Castell family to furnish the family chapel with stained glass windows; in the following years he received increasing commissions for the design of churches and public buildings; in the 1960s/70s he mainly painted landscapes Weiers lived a secluded life because of his numerous exhibitions and the attention they attracted; 1959 trip to Elba; in the late 1950s he was commissioned by the Faber-Castell family to furnish the family chapel with stained glass windows; in the following years he received increasing commissions for the design of churches and public buildings; in the 1960s/70s he mainly painted landscapes Weiers lived a secluded life because of his numerous exhibitions and the attention they attracted; 1959 trip to Elba; in the late 1950s he was commissioned by the Faber-Castell family to furnish the family chapel with stained glass windows; in the following years he received increasing commissions for the design of churches and public buildings; in the 1960s/70s he mainly painted landscapes

Ernst Weiers ( born September 17, 1909 in Oespel / Westphalia; † June 3 , 1978 in Bernried ) was a German painter , glass painter , graphic artist , sculptor and lithographer . He is attributed to the " Lost Generation " and was a member of the New Group .

He emigrated to Switzerland with Paul Klee in 1933, but was deported again in 1936. In 1937, as part of the Nazi campaign “ Degenerate Art ”, his woodcut Prayer (24.5 × 27.7 cm) was confiscated from the Duisburg Municipal Art Collection and destroyed.

From 1939 to 1945 he served as a soldier in Poland, France, Italy and Russia and documented his impressions in numerous drawings, which he was allowed to send home thanks to an understanding regiment commander. In 1949 he returned from Russian captivity

In 2015 there was an exhibition "Ernst Weiers - A Great Artist of the Lost Generation " in the Faber-Castell Castle in Stein near Nuremberg, which presented 40 drawings and prints (from the National Socialist period, the war and imprisonment) and 20 oil paintings from the time after the war, arranged in two sections

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Weiers

https://kunsthandel-koskull.de/kunst-1900-1945/ernst-weiers/