Wilhelm Aurnhammer

My father, Wilhelm Aurnhammer (1907 - 1984), began as an expressionist artist in München working in oils, water colour, ink, chalk and also made etchings and woodcuts. He was part of a circle of young artists who were denied the right to exhibit by the Nazis. After the war he became a dedicated art teacher. He was inspired by the landscape of southern France and created hundreds of sketches of rocks and trees. The works on permanent loan at Alexandra House (in Tempera, Water colour, Pen and Ink, Collages) are representative of his later geometric style. Here are a few examples.