Self-Portrait, Walter Kurt Wiemken (1939)
Walter Kurt Wiemken was a Swiss painter. Walter Kurt Wiemken was born in Basel in 1907 to German parents who had gained Swiss citizenship in 1898. He became seriously ill with polio at the age of four months, which led to a lifelong disability.
In 1927, he spent the summer semester at the State University of Applied Arts in Munich, where he was taught by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Richard Klein. After his stay in Munich, he travelled to Paris with the painter Otto Abt, where he created his last Expressionist pictures. These were almost exclusively gloomy street scenes. After this, he turned to Impressionism.
