Friedrich August Weinzheimer
Friedrich August Weinzheimer (September 29, 1882 in Golzheim – 1947 in Florence) was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist. Life. He studied from 1900 to 1902 at the Düsseldorf Academy, from 1903 to 1907 at the Academy in Berlin. From 1908 to 1917 he was active in Cologne, where his works were mostly sold by the Cologne art dealer Abels, and from 1913 to 1914 in the United States. From 1918 to 1922 he lived again in Cologne, then in Florence. In 1905 he received the Menzel Prize, 1914 a quarter of a year's residence as  part of the Villa Romana Prize which he could no longer compete because of the outbreak of the First World War. At the art historical meaningful ArmoryShow 1913 Weinzheimer was represented next to Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and other representatives of the modern with two works. Weinzheimer 1909 co-founder of the Cologne Artists' Association, whose chairman he was until 1911. Later he was active in the secession, the Cologne Secession. His signature was F.A. Weinzheimer. Weinzheimer's main work is the cycle "Dante's Inferno". In 2013, two of his works were exhibited by the New York Historical Society . Exhibitions. 1911, November - December: 23rd Exhibition of the Berlin Secession, Drawing Arts, Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kürfürstendamm 208/9 1912, May - September: International Art Exhibition of the Specialist Association of West German Art Friends and Artists at Cologne, Cologne, Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Aachener Tor 1912, November to December: 25th Exhibition of the Berlin Secession, Drawing Arts, Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kürfürstendamm 208/9 1913: Cölner Secession, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum 1912: Kunsthütte Chemnitz 1913, April: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1913, February - March: International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show), New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry 1913, March - April: International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory  Show), Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago 1913, April - May: International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show), Boston, Copley Hall 1913, October - November: Opening exhibition, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Gemäldegalerie des Kölnischen Kunstvereins 1914, February - March: International exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 1914, May, Collections: Schmidt-Rottluff / Alexander Kanoldt / F.A. Weinzheimer / L.L. Wulf. Sculptures, Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt 1921, March - October: Exhibition German Art in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 1914, July: "New Art" Hans Goltz, Munich 1940: Great German Art Exhibition, Munich, House of German Art