Adolf Jutz

Adolf Jutz (born June 20, 1887 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † December 14, 1945 in Tegernsee ) was a German painter and draftsman .

Adolf Jutz was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1887. Even during his school days he wanted to become a painter; about him it is said to have been said: "He painted everything he saw." However, his father insisted that he do a commercial apprenticeship, which he completed in 1906. Only after the early death of his father in 1905 did he approach art professionally. A fellow student of his brother arranged for him to meet Hans Thoma , who confirmed that he had enough talent for admission to the art academy. He then studied in Karlsruhe a. a. with Professor Ludwig Schmid-Reutte , in Florence and in Paris at the Académie Ranson a . a. with Paul Sérusier (1908) and Maurice Denis (1909).

The First World War took him to the Western Front as a war painter. His first solo exhibitions in Munich and Freiburg in 1917 and 1919 were dedicated to his work as a war painter. What he had to experience during the war, as well as the early death of his first wife in 1920, left a streak of melancholy in him, which again and again shaped his other works, made him increasingly turn to religious topics and which never completely fell away from him. From 1924 he lived and worked in Munich until his death in 1945.

Adolf Jutz participated in many exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s, including a. 1934–1936 at the annual Great Art Exhibition in Munich. In 1930 he received the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg . In 1933 he became chairman of the Association of Fine Artists Munich's 2nd Secession. He remained a member of the board until 1937. In 1937 a collective exhibition was held at the Münchner Kunstverein on the occasion of his 50th birthday. He was no longer allowed to participate in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, which took place for the first time in the same year , because of an exhibition ban (professional ban) issued by the Reich Chamber of Art . At no time could he identify with the völkisch art concept of the Nazi rulers; in private circles he spoke out vehemently against the Nazi dictatorship. Then there were only isolated exhibitions of his Christian-influenced works. In December 1945 Adolf Jutz died of the long-term consequences of a bicycle accident in the summer of the same year.

Adolf Jutz's work includes a variety of graphics ( ink , red chalk , lithography ), works in oil as well as watercolor and tempera mixed media.

One of his main focuses was landscape painting; especially the lower Altmühltal , the Jura , the Allgäu and Upper Bavaria were his favorite landscapes. His other focus, especially after 1935, was religious (Christian) painting. So come z. B. the way of the cross in the parish church St. Josef (1937) in Memmingen as well as the way of the cross of the parish church Landsberied near Fürstenfeldbruck by him.

In January 1951 a commemorative exhibition (together with Engelhardt , Eichrodt-Schindler and J. Kaspar ) was held at the Kunstverein Karlsruhe , and in 1961 works were shown in the exhibition of the Way of the Cross and Resurrection of the German Society for Christian Art. In 1963 Adolf Jutz was represented with five works at the Great Art Exhibition in the memorial exhibition of the deceased members of the three artist groups. In 1987 and 1991 exhibitions on the artist's 100th birthday took place in Munich and Augsburg.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Jutz in the catalog of the German National Library
• The painter and graphic artist Adolf Jutz . In: Die Kunst für alle , issue 7 / April 1934, p. 202 ff.