Adolf Roeder

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Adolf Röder (born November 5, 1904 in Barmen , † 1983 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld ) was a German painter , graphic artist and gallery owner .

Life

Adolf Röder was a student of his father Georg Röder . His brother was the painter Paul Röder . Adolf Röder studied at the arts and crafts schools in Barmen and Elberfeld with Jacob Bayer, Ludwig Fahrenkrog , Otto Schulze sen. and Hans Schreiber. In 1930 he founded his own studio.

In 1941, Adolf Röder traveled to Chiemsee to study , where he had contacts with the painter Willibald Demmel and the artists' association “Frauenwörther”. He experienced the Second World War as a medical sergeant and was awarded the Cross of Merit, 2nd class. The painter was a co-founder in 1946 and first chairman of the Ring of Bergischer Künstler from 1947 to 1983 . In 1948 he founded a painting school.

His house at Sedanstrasse 68 in Wuppertal-Barmen - interrupted by the war years - had increasingly developed into a popular meeting place for artists. His wife Eva Röder (married in 1949) cooked, and Adolf Röder was responsible for the drinks. After the destruction of World War II , the couple rebuilt the house on the Sedansberg . When a license was granted at the beginning of 1950, the Galerie Palette - Röderhaus finally became an "official venue", which for a few years was a "fixed point of the supraregional art scene".

From 1949 to 1970 he was a member of the Museum and Library Committee of the City of Wuppertal; from 1954 to 1971 he sat on the advisory board of the Art and Museum Association in Wuppertal .

In honor of his father Georg Röder, he donated the Georg Röder Medal for Honored Artists. Adolf Röder was the father of the painter and cook Helmut Röder .

Works (selection)

The focus of the motifs in Röder's pictures was the landscape, but pieces of flowers, still lifes and figure pictures can also be found. His painting techniques were gouache , tempera, and oil ; the graphic artist Röder preferred lithography and linocut .

  • View of the Winkelsmühle in the Neandertal, 1934
  • Forest interior with felled trees, 1936
  • View of the Watzmann, 1936
  • Heiligenblut, 1939
  • Chiemsee landscape, 1944
  • Baden village, 1946
  • Fish trap and lake, 1977
  • Female nude (monotype), 1980
  • City gate of Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Works by Adolf Röder are in the possession of the Osthaus Museum Hagen , the graphic library of the Remscheid City Library, the Solingen Art Museum and the Wuppertaler Von der Heydt Museum , as well as in the Rheinkalk company collection , formerly Rhenish limestone works . Numerous works are in private hands.

Honors

The Adolf-Röder-Gasse in Wuppertal-Barmen, 2012
  • Cross of Merit II. Class in World War II
  • Dr. Ludwig Lindner Prize, 1957
  • Amicus Poloniae Medal, 1967
  • Golden Medal of the Province of Anconi (Italy), 1967
  • Honorary member of the Hofgeismar art circle, 1970
  • Honorary member of the Hattingen Art Association, 1974
  • Federal Cross of Merit , 1971
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, 1979
  • The Adolf-Röder-Gasse in Wuppertal-Barmen was named after the artist.

literature

  • group rbk: Erich Kresse, Klaus Reimers, Adolf Röder ; Exhibition July 2 - July 30, 1967; Exhibition halls of the Art and Museum Association Wuppertal. 48S.
  • Adolf Röder 75: An exhibition of the Röderhaus. Verlag Galerie Palette, Röderhaus, Wuppertal 1979. 10S.
  • Bernd Fischer: The painters Paul and Adolf Röder: Two dissimilar brothers? In: Romerike Berge , 2000
  • Dagmar Klein, Sabine Fehlemann (ed.): The Röder family of painters. From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2004. 44S.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ barmen-200-jahre.de: Chronicle from 1900–1999 → online ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, artist portal: short biography of Adolf Röder → online
  3. ↑ a b c eArt.de: Short biography Adolf Röder → online
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Udo Garweg: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, pp. 319-320
  5. ↑ a b Florian Launus: They also wrote history: Other well-known Wuppertal people. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of December 30, 2012. → online
  6. ↑ a b c Regine Schulz: It all started with the artists' meeting point. The Röderhaus range on Sedansberg in Barmen. In: Uwe E. Schoebler (Ed.): Bergisches Almanach 1990 , Bergische Blätter , pp. 90 and 91
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH 1983
Place of death Wuppertal-Elberfeld