Alfred Renz
Alfred Renz (born July 15, 1877 in Saulgau , † September 29, 1930 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and illustrator.
Life
Renz first learned and practiced the profession of decorative painter. Around 1904/1908, building on this, he completed his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart. He was a student of Robert von Haug and Christian Landenberger . He was awarded a gold medal for his academic performance. He taught until 1922 at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart . Erich Zeyer and Walter Strich-Chapell as well as his son Walter Renz, born in 1908, were among his students . He also worked as a book illustrator. As a freelance artist, he went on long painting trips through Germany - with a focus on Hamburg -, Holland and Italy.
He developed a particularly fluid tempera painting technique early on, which allowed a lively depiction of moving street scenes. His oil paintings also take up this spontaneous painting style. In addition to painting landscapes, street and harbor paintings were the main focus of his work. During his extensive painting trips to Hamburg and Rotterdam he created numerous tempera pictures, which later served him as a template for large-format oil paintings in his studio. a. in the Blohm and Voss shipyard, in the Vulkan shipyard, in the port of Hamburg with elevated railway, and on the ship Cap Pololonio, the largest ship in the German merchant fleet at the time. These images capture the very impressive events and the atmosphere in two ocean ports.
In 1925 Alfred Renz founded the family business Renz Bilderrahmen in Stuttgart together with his son Erich Renz . The company was u. a. worked for well-known art houses such as Ketterer and Schaller and existed until 2017.
Exhibitions
- 1927 Participation in the anniversary exhibition of the Württemberg Art Association , Stuttgart
- 1990 Alfred Renz exhibition , Städtische Galerie Saulgau
- 1990/91 Participation in an exhibition of paintings from Italy from the 17th to the 20th centuries , Städtische Galerie Saulgau
Book illustrations
- Homer's Odyssey based on the German translation by Johann Heinrich Voss , reworked by J [akob] Bass. With 12 etchings and 20 text images by Alfred Renz, Loewe, Stuttgart 1913
- Nuremberg. Its picturesque-architectural appearance and its color value in ten pictures by Alfred Renz. Foreword by Max Diez (Renz-Mappe Städtebilder), Stuttgarter Kunstverlag, Stuttgart 1900
- Gustav Schwab , The most beautiful sagas of classical antiquity. According to its poets and storytellers . Edited by Jakob Baß. With 5 full color images and 50 text images by Alfred Renz, Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1911
literature
- Dressler's art manual . 9th edition, Curtius, Berlin 1930, 2nd volume, sv
- Renz, Alfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 176 .
- Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon - from the baroque to the present. Stuttgart 1986, pp. 98 and 466 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Schnerring: The painter Friedrich corner fields. A Munich impressionist paints his Swabian homeland , Theiss 1984, ISBN 978-3-8062-0337-0 , p. 128.
- ^ Günther Wirth: Verbotene Kunst 1933-1945. Hatje 1987, p. 322.
- ^ Gert K. Nagel: Schwäbisches Künstlerlexikon. Stuttgart 1986, p. 98.
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung. No. 232, October 6, 1990, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renz, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saulgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1930 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |