Adolf Riedlin

Adolf Riedlin (born April 3, 1892 in Laufen near Sulzburg , Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district , † September 9, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter.

Life

Born into a family of farmers and winegrowers, the middle of three brothers, Adolf Riedlin first completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Freiburg after finishing school , which he completed in 1910 with a journeyman's examination. From 1911 he attended the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe . This was followed by two semesters at the Grand Ducal Art School in Karlsruhe in 1912/13 as a student of Professor Walter Georgi . Then Adolf Riedlin worked as a self-employed church painter .

In 1914 Riedlin became a soldier, in September 1914 he was seriously wounded, until the end of the war he returned to the front.

From 1919 to 1920 he was a student of Adolf Hölzel at the Stuttgart Art Academy . Riedlin was impressed by Hölzel: Today he is considered one of the pioneers of abstract painting and dealt with abstract designs even before Wassily Kandinsky .

From 1921 Riedlin gained experience as a freelance painter and moved to Baden-Baden in 1924, where he devoted himself to portraiture. In 1926 he returned to Laufen. During a five-month stay in Paris in 1928, he was influenced by the Surrealists and Cubism .

From 1930 he lived in Basel , Switzerland , only to return to Laufen in 1933. In 1937 he moved to Freiburg i. Br. About. In 1940 he had to do military service again and was taken prisoner by the Americans. After his release in 1946, he returned to his residence in Freiburg i. Br., Where he died in 1969. Riedlin was a member of the Badische Secession artist group .

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Adolf Riedlin was one of the first painters in Baden who did not paint representationally : his depictions of Markgräfler landscapes and people in the style of expressive realism earned him the ostracism of National Socialist cultural policy; In Freiburg in 1937, the Reich Chamber of Culture confiscated and destroyed five of his pictures from the Augustinian Museum that were considered degenerate . On the other hand, a fresco he created in 1937 in the common room of the Freiburg gas works , which showed a column of workers with a Hitler salute, was changed after the war for denazification so that the raised hands were brought into a normal position by overpainting. The wall paintings preserved in the Lortzing School in Freiburg, built in 1953/54, amaze today's viewer with the typical Nazi motifs used by the horse tamers, naked men riding wild horses in the stairwell of a primary school.

Unprotected exposed to the elements and now freely accessible is under preservation standing fresco Riedlins over the orifice of a former iron ore lug at the Freiburg Schoenberg, illustrating two miners. Here, too, his ingratiation to the Nazi regime emerges in the motif, only the then presumably courageous choice of colors and the resolution of the image still somehow remind of the once presumed pioneer of Baden abstraction .

Exhibitions

• 1962, Freiburger Kunstverein : Solo exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday
• 1972, Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, retrospective
• 2012, Sulzburg-Laufen, Kulturkreis Arkade eV, exhibition "The artist Adolf Riedlin - a son of Laufens" for his 120th birthday
• 2016/2017, Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, retrospective for the 125th birthday

Commemoration

Riedlin room in his parents' house in Laufen , part of Sulzburg .

literature

• Paul Ibenthaler : Adolf Riedlin . In: Our Lörrach, a border town in the mirror of time . Lörracher Chronik 1970, p. 13 ff. Lörrach-Tumringen, Kropf & Herz 1970.
• Adolf Riedlin 1892-1969 . Exhibition catalog, Augustinermuseum Freiburg im Breisgau; Museum am Burghof Loerrach, 1992.
• Antje Lechleiter: The artist group "Badische Secession". History, life and work of their painters and sculptors . Frankfurt et al., Lang 1994. ISBN 3-631-47034-7
• Heike Lemm: lateral thinker with stamina . In: badische-zeitung.de, Lokales, Sulzburg , April 3, 2012 (April 14, 2012)

Web links

• The artist Adolf Riedlin - a great son of Laufens . In: haus-am-altenberg.de (April 14, 2012)
• Exhibition for the 120th birthday: The artist Adolf Riedlin - a son of Laufens on www.markgraefler.de; accessed on December 10, 2016
• Collection of South Baden painting Adolf Riedlin , website of the Dreiländermuseum. Retrieved December 10, 2016
• Objects by Adolf Riedlin in the Dreiländermuseum collection database
• Adolf Riedlin. Pioneer of Classical Modernism in Baden , brochure from the Dreiländermuseum Lörrach on the Riedlin exhibition from December 14, 2016 to March 19, 2017; PDF; accessed on December 10, 2016
• City of Sulzburg Advisory template for the public GR meeting on October 20, 2016, No. 47/2016, Item III / 10 Allocation and dedication of a street name in Adolf-Riedlin-Weg in Laufen, PDF 175 kB, accessed on December 10, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bernd Michaelis: Discover a deeper reality . In: badische-zeitung.de, Lokales, Sulzburg , September 9, 2009 (April 14, 2012)
2. ^ Adolf Riedlin . In: badische-zeitung.de, Infobox , April 3, 2012 (April 14, 2012)
3. ↑ das freischüßler 1-2005: continuity vs. New beginning ; P. 18: Denazification of pictures: Simply paint over! . In: hakj.rewi.hu-berlin.de (April 14, 2012; PDF file; 2.31 MB)
4. ↑ Exposed to the weather - ore . In: badische-zeitung.de, Lokales, Müllheim , April 13, 2012 (April 14, 2012)
5. ↑ The St. Georgen iron ore mine . In: kartan.de (April 14, 2012)
6. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection and Energy : Ore Mine in Freiburg - St. Georgen . themenpark-umwelt.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved August 12, 2012.