German landscape painter, restorer and church painter (1886 Lahr / Black Forest until 1968 Offenburg),

1900-03 apprenticeship as a room painter with his father, the master painter Johann Wilhelm Wickertsheimer, student of the Lahr trade school,

parallel 1900-05 painting lessons with August Burghardt,

1905 -07 pupil at the Kunstgewerbeschule Karlsruhe with Hans Thoma, during the semester break worked as a restorer or church painter for the Zurich art workshop Viktor Mezger,

1907 death of his father and takeover of the parents' business,

1909 master craftsman,

1914-16 military service and injuries in the 1st World War, After the First World War, continuation of the painting business, at the same time artistically freelance, from

1939/40 fully active as a painter, sent to the Great German Art Exhibition in

1942 and 1943 in the House of German Art in Munich, member of the Free Artists' Association of Baden, in the Reich Association of German Visual Artists and founding member the artists' association "The Black Forests ", Honorary member of the Black Forest Association and the choral society" Concordia ", active in Lahr in the Black Forest