Paul Wallat


Paul Wallat was a German landscape artist, draftsman and sculptor.

Life

Paul Wallat was the son of the shoemaker Gustav Wallat and brother of the sculptor. He graduated from a painter's apprenticeship in Rostock and from 1899 to 1902 studied painting at the School of Applied Arts Hamburg. Between 1902 and 1909 he attended the Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin at the history painter and the marine- and landscapepainter Carl Saltzmann.
In 1905 and 1906 Paul Wallat undertook a world tour on the MS "Charlotte", later he often was in Holland and Belgium. On December 29, 1906 he received the award of the Ginsberg Foundation of the Berlin Academy. By 1917, he had his residence in Berlin, in 1918 he came to Gehlsdorf, a small village near Rostock, after 1949 he went to Sønderborg in Denmark.

Works (Selection)

Sculptures

Paul Wallat was regularly represented with his works at the well known "Great Art Exhibition Berlin" since 1904.
In 1939 an exhibition was devoted to Paul Wallat for occasion of his 60th birthday. This took place into the exhibition of Contemporary Mecklenburg painters at the Mecklenburg State Museum Schwerin. The following pictures were shown: