trained as a painter; art studies at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (w. Julius Wohlers);
Germany
topographical, technical, and industrial drawing and watercolour painting ;
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Wriggers ;
ThB 36: 277 ; Vollmer 5: 172 ; 100 Jahre A. W. Bilder aus sechs Jahrzehnten, in: NA Intern 91 (1996): 6f.; Adolf Wriggers Aquarelle ; Ausstellung im Hamburg-Haus (1976); Dorothy von Hülsen (ed.) A.W. 1896-1984. Gemälde, Aquarelle und Graphiken aus dem Nachlass und aus Hamburger Privatsammlungen, Hamburg 1986; Eva Mayring (ed.) Bilder der Technik, Industrie und Wissenschaft (Munich 2008): 90-91, 290 ; Maike Bruhns: Kunst in der Krise vol. 2: Künstlerlexikon Hamburg 1933–1945 (Hamburg 2001): 429–432; A.W. in: Kay Rump & Maike Bruhns (eds.): Der Neue Rump. Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung, 2nd ed. Neumünster 2005: 522–523.
A. W. had been active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. He was mostly known as landscape artist painting in an impressionistic style, but occasionally also worked for the Deutsches Museum and industrial clients. In 1949, he founded the fine art union "Kleiner Hamburger Künstlerring"
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