Paula Wimmer, Nymphenburg Palace Park (Munich), 1920s, Oil Painting on Canvas, Framed

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Paula Wimmer
1876 Munich-Solln - 1971 Dachau

'Nymphenburg Palace Park in Summer'
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas (trimmed), mounted … Read more Paula Wimmer
1876 Munich-Solln - 1971 Dachau

'Nymphenburg Palace Park in Summer'
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas (trimmed), mounted on canvas, framed
Size: 42 x 51.5 cm (without frame) or 51.5 x 60.5 cm (with frame)

Illustration: Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery (ed.) (2025): The Weimar Era. Arts of the Weimar Republic, Bielefeld, p. 167 [full-page color illustration]

This painting by Paula Wimmer was part of the exhibition "The Weimar Era. Arts of the Weimar Republic. 50th Anniversary Exhibition of the Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery," September 20–November 15, 2025, Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld.

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Paula Wimmer
Painter, draughtswoman, printmaker.

Around 1900, initial training with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts
Acquaintance with Franz von Stuck and Max Feldbauer
1900-1910 Study trips with her stepmother to Rome, Florence, Venice, and Paris
In Paris, she attended the Nabis' private school at the Académie Ranson for several months
1911 Return to Munich and attendance at Max Feldbauer's private painting school
Travels with Feldbauer to Griesbach and Brittany
1914-1916 Stay in Berlin with her stepmother, where she became acquainted with, among others, Paul Cassirer, Fritz Gurlitt, Paul Westheim, Alfred Kubin, and Else Lasker-Schüler
1916 Move to Dachau and subsequently worked there
1937 A work was confiscated during the "Degenerate Art" campaign

Exhibitions (selection):
from around 1906, participation in exhibitions of the Munich Secession, the Munich Art Association, and the "Jury-free."

Further exhibition participations include the Munich Glass Palace.

1953 Participation in the "Women's Biennale," Bolzano
1958 Participation in the important exhibition "Awakening to Modernism" (Haus der Kunst, Munich)
1976 Major exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth at the Dachau District and City Savings Bank
1994-95 Solo exhibition at the Association of Dachau Galleries and Museums, Dachau
2011 Represented in the exhibition "Me on the Move. 50 Painters of Expressive Realism. Portraits 1914-1979," Städtische Galerie ada, Meiningen
2019 Represented in the exhibition "Women Painters of Expressive Realism," Neues Schloß, Kißlegg
November 2024 – March 2025 Several works represented in the exhibition "Wishes Come True," Magda Bittner-Simmet Foundation, Munich
October 2025 – February 2026 Several works represented in the exhibition "Against All Resistance - Women Artists of Modern Art, Kirchner House, Aschaffenburg

Awards:

1918 Award of the Austrian Silver State Medal for the painting "Schleißheim"

Memberships:

1919 Co-founder of the Dachau Artists' Group

1946 Founding member of the Munich branch of GEDOK (Association of German Women Artists)

Collections:

Dachau Art Gallery
Museum of Sepulchral Culture, Kassel
Lenbachhaus Municipal Gallery, Munich
State Gallery Stuttgart
Joseph Hierling Collection, Tutzing
Frank Brabant Collection, Wiesbaden This piece has an attribution mark,
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