Life Wilhelm Tank

1 life

1.1 family provenance , years
1.2 teaching
1.3 beyond teaching

life
family provenance , years

tank s came traditional east prussian family close links protestant churches union. father, emil tank, superintendent (senior church administrator) based, time of wilhelm s birth, not in east prussia in village of kuschlin, @ time in prussian province of posen. on leaving school embarked on apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. switched berlin university of arts.

it @ berlin university of arts professional career began. studied anatomy hans virchow (de). pupil of prof. paul richer, academic artist-anatomist reputation @ time extended far beyond borders of france. during , after student years tank undertook study tours africa, western asia, southern russia, england, france, italy , spain along german-speaking part of central europe, in order study form.

teaching

tank began own teaching career in 1912. accepted appointment teacher of anatomical , nude drawing @ charité (teaching hospital) in berlin. assignments @ secondary schools , arts colleges followed. between 1925 , 1936 had teaching contract german academy body exercises ( deutsche hochschule für leibesübungen / dhfl). in 1929 appointed berlin university of arts. first associate professor , later full professor. subsequently, giving lectures both @ berlin university of arts and, latterly, @ free university of berlin in 1962. in retirement tank continued lecture @ 3 education establishments.

beyond teaching

tank worked artist , illustrator. anatomical drawings appear in books, , on posters in exhibitions of work such 1 first staged in 1920. tank featured in great german arts exhibition held in munich annually between 1937 , 1944. posthumously presented displays include @ galerie edition marco in bonn (1978), museum of european arts (1985) , schloss nörvenich gallery (2003).

he applied scholarship ib political film , radio work. in 1928, radio producer arthur holz, developed radio gymnastics , published booklet of illustrations in support of first series. film producer wilhelm prager (1876–1955) instigated , collaborated on first in series of body culture films, ways strength , beauty, designing elaborate poster advertise launch.