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Friedrich Wirnhier · Munich · 1907

The Waderé
Daughters

An artist’s world, painted by his peer.

Oil on canvas · 73 × 52.5 cmPrivate collection

Music · Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen — Am Kamin, 1838

Friedrich Wirnhier, The Waderé Daughters in Heinrich Waderé’s Studio, 1907

The sitters

Maria and Elisabeth Waderé

Friedrich Wirnhier, Maria and Elisabeth Waderé in their father’s studio, 1907
Friedrich Wirnhier · 1907
Maria and Elisabeth Waderé, historical photograph preserved with the Sammlung Waderé
H. Traut, Munich · c. 1902
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München
Armchair with the Waderé arms, designed by Heinrich Waderé, c. 1892–95
Armchair with the Waderé arms
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München. Foto: Bastian Krack

The Waderé household

A time capsule of Munich, 1900.

Furniture, painted glass, old-master copies and family photographs — now in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. The world Wirnhier painted in 1907.

From the family estate, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum holds the carved-oak living-room suite by the court furniture maker Otto Fritzsche, the family arms in painted glass, old-master copies in frames Waderé designed, and the family’s photographs. Together they preserve the working and domestic life of a Munich artist’s family — the world Wirnhier painted in 1907.

Munich · around 1905

Painters’ daughters — a genre?

Munich’s painter-princes portrayed their own daughters again and again — Lenbach, Uhde, Kaulbach, Stuck.

Franz von Lenbach, Franz von Lenbach mit Frau und Töchtern, 1903
Franz von Lenbach mit Frau und TöchternFranz von Lenbach · 1903Lenbachhaus, Munich
Fritz von Uhde, Die Töchter des Künstlers im Garten, 1906
Die Töchter des Künstlers im GartenFritz von Uhde · 1906Kunsthalle Mannheim
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, portrait of his daughter Hedda, 1907
Hedda, the artist’s daughterFriedrich August von Kaulbach · 1907Munich
Franz von Stuck, Mary Stuck, the artist’s daughter
Mary Stuck, die Tochter des KünstlersFranz von StuckBelvedere, Vienna

The painter

Friedrich Wirnhier · 1868–1952

Born in Munich in 1868, Wirnhier trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1904. He exhibited at the Glaspalast, and in 1908 sat on its jury alongside Waderé. His work is in the Lenbachhaus, Munich. He died in 1952.

Born in Munich in 1868, Wirnhier studied at the city’s Kunstgewerbeschule from 1888 to 1890 and returned there as a teacher in 1904. He worked as a painter, church decorator, restorer and graphic artist.

He exhibited at the Munich Glaspalast — in 1902 with Daheim and Abendandacht — and in 1906 Arthur Volkmann, reviewing the Munich annual exhibition for Die Kunst für alle, noted a “delikat gefärbte Bild eines im Stuhl sitzenden kleinen Mädchens” — a delicately coloured picture of a little girl sitting in a chair. In 1908 the Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft elected both men to the jury of the Glaspalast exhibition — Wirnhier for painting, Waderé, “Professor an der Kgl. Kunstgewerbeschule”, as first chair for sculpture. His work is represented in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. He died in Munich in 1952.

Friedrich Wirnhier, Ruhendes Mädchen, plate 106 of the 1913 Glaspalast catalogue
Ruhendes Mädchen · Friedrich Wirnhier
Glaspalast catalogue, Munich 1913, plate 106

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With thanks to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, for permission to reproduce photographs from the Sammlung Waderé.

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