page_title: Wilhelm Kimmich
section_title: The years of artistic maturity
hierarchical_section_title: Wilhelm Kimmich / Biography / The years of artistic maturity
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilhelm Kimmich's painting: Der Oberbauer David (1972) Deutsch: Gemälde Wilhelm Kimmichs:Der Oberbauer David (1972)
context_page_description: Wilhelm Kimmich, was a German painter and is considered one of the most important Black Forest painters of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Since 1956  Wilhelm Kimmich, together with his painter friend Professor Hermann Anselment 
  (1905-1981), had travelled to  Ticino and to Italy. 
  
  Although, as a result of these trips, he created landscapes depicting  those southern areas Kimmich soon returned to his proper motifs, i. e. the Black Forest and its people. Since the middle of the 1950s he "completely refurbished"  Black Forest painting from a stylistic point of view. This accomplishment determines Kimmich's standing in the history of art in the southwest of Germany.
  
  As for his stylistic influences, Kimmich stuck to traditional values. He admitted to influences of Impressionism as well as Expressionism and in his works the influence of Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne are visible as well as that of Henri Matisse and Emil Nolde.
  In 1970 Kimmich moved to his new house on Lauterbach's Fohrenbühl, where he had his own studio. He was awarded an honorary citizenship of his birthplace Lauterbach in 1977 
  His wife Hildegard Lutz from Munderkingen, whom he had married in 1949, died in 1980. For the last four years of his life Wilhelm Kimmich lived together with Elisabeth Sandfort.
caption: Der Oberbauer David (1972)
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