01 Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #212

Adolf Heinrich Wriggers

Port Of Hamburg

Oil on board

15-1/2 x 22 in. (39.3 x 55.8 cm.)

Private Collection

The Port of Hamburg is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. The port is almost as old as the history of Hamburg itself. Founded on 7 May 1189 by Frederick I for its strategic location, it has been Central Europe's main port for centuries and enabled Hamburg to develop early into a leading city of trade with a rich and proud bourgeoisie. More on Hamburg Harbor 

Adolf Henry Wriggers (born April 27, 1896 in Hamburg , † November 30, 1984 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist , who worked mainly in the style of impressionism .

n 1913 he received a scholarship for the School of Applied Arts Hamburg. Because of a hearing damage, he was used in wartime service as a coachman in East Prussia from 1915 to 1918 and then continued his education at the now so renamed Landeskunstschule with Carl Schroeder. From 1919 he lived freelance in Hamburg.

During the period of National Socialism , he was repeatedly imprisoned and temporarily taken into protective custody. Wriggers supported the resistance activities of the White Rose Hamburg . In 1949 he founded the Kleiner Hamburger Künstlerring with a number of other artists .

In 1956, he lost an eye during an operation, increasingly blinded until he was completely blinded in 1968. During this time, the forms and motifs of his works were increasingly coarsened. Already in the 1920s and then again from 1950 he had dealt with woodcuts and etchings, but mainly painted in impressionist style, even in small-format works. His subject was often the Port of Hamburg, which earned him the epithet "port painter", also industrial landscapes and landscape painting in oil and watercolor.

Adolf Wiggers died in November 1984 in his hometown Hamburg. More on Adolf Henry Wriggers

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