Willhelm Hambüchen (1869 - 1939)

Wilhelm Hambüchen, (Düsseldorf, August 8, 1869 - there, September 5, 1939), was a German painter. Düsseldorfer Schule, Impressionism.

Life and work: He often painted in the North Sea area and specialized in beach and seascapes. Hambüchen visited the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf and started his career as a decoration and theater painter. From 1895 he started to work as an independent artist, initially as a landscape painter. In 1898 he traveled to the Belgian coast with fellow painter George Hacker and since then specialized in beach and seascapes. Until the First World War you would return to the North Sea coast every year in the summers. In 1898 he was in Walcheren with his friend Max Clarenbach. At least in 1905, 1906 and 1908, he worked in Katwijk aan Zee and then regularly in Nieuwpoort until 1914.

Hambüchen is classified as part of the Düsseldorfer Schule and painted in an impressionist style. With broad and loose brushstrokes he painted the boats, the beach with large clouds and the fishermen in the surf, after the catch. The influence of Hendrik Willem Mesdag and thus of the Hague School is clearly recognizable.

Hambüchen's son Georg also became a painter. He died in 1939 at the age of 70. His work is in the possession of the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Katwijks Museum.