Aloys Röhr
Aloys Röhr (born December 18, 1887 in Münster , † March 1, 1953 in Albersloh ) was a sculptor of German post-war expressionism. Since he mostly had his works paid for in kind and in kind, he earned his living working in a plaster foundry.
Life
Aloys Röhr was born in Münster as the first of six children of photographer Carl Albert Röhr and his wife Gertrud Johanna Röhr. His school career is unknown.
Between 1904 and 1907 he trained as a sculptor with Anton Rüller in Münster. During this time he made replicas of Gothic sculptures and clay works for the Munster art dealer Max Heimann. As a result of this activity, he was involved in a lawsuit involving the art dealer Max Heimann for art forgery in 1911, which he survived unscathed.
The completion of the voluntary one-year military service enabled Röhr to study at an art academy, which he completed from 1909 to 1910 under Professor Erwin Kurz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His apprenticeship and traveling years - what he called it - took him back to Münster via Berlin , Cologne and Düsseldorf between 1910 and 1914 .
During the First World War , Röhr served on the fronts in the Vosges and Macedonia , then he was deployed as a member of the provisional Reichswehr in 1918/19 in the Eastern Border Guard in Silesia , from where he returned to Münster in 1919. He sent out numerous self-designed postcards from the war, including mostly ink and pencil drawings.
In 1919/20 he was - together with Albert Mazzotti, Friedrich Liel , Bernhard Bröker, Ernst Hermanns and Bernhard Peppinghege - co-founder of the Münster free artist group "Schanze" and occasionally worked as a wood carver in Max Fischer's cabinet making . In 1929 the Christian “Münster Church of St. Luke” was founded, of which he also became a member.
From 1921 he worked in the plaster molding shop Peter Mazzotti in Münster, which he remained loyal to under his successor Albert Mazzotti until 1944. During this time he carried out numerous commissioned works based on Mazzotti's and his own designs. In the same year he moved into a room on Ostmarkstrasse, which also served as a studio until it was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944.
From 1924 to 1926 he made the figures of the seven lazy people and some reliefs of the interior in the house of the seven lazy people and the house of St. Petrus in Böttcherstraße in Bremen on behalf of the merchant and patron Ludwig Roselius .
In 1928 he received his first commissions for sculptures and reliefs in churches and chapels, and in 1935 and 1938 he undertook study trips to Greece , Italy and North Africa . After his room was destroyed in 1944, he moved to the Bernhard Rose carpenter's workshop in Albersloh.
On January 1, 1945, the 57-year-old was drafted into the Reichswehr as a draftsman and stationed in Xanten . Before the end of the war he was able to return to Münster and take part in an exhibition in the Clasing Gallery with other Münster artists.
After the Second World War , Röhr lived with relatives in Albersloh on the Rüschoff farm after a stopover in the Anton Holle joinery. He lived very withdrawn and carried out various orders for the reconstruction of the cathedral and the town hall in Münster, such as the gable figures on the town hall in Münster and various columns, capitals and reliefs on the commercial buildings of the Prinzipalmarkt and Salzstrasse .
On March 1, 1953, Aloys Röhr died of complications from cancer in Albersloh.
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At first, Röhr, who was still in the Art Nouveau style, turned to Expressionism in 1919, before turning to New Objectivity in the mid-1920s . His numerous woodcuts, graphics and sculptures show religious depictions, depictions of animals, female nudes and tropical landscapes. Bernd Thier from the Stadtmuseum Münster has this to say about Röhr: "His work is of high quality, he is considered one of the best wood carvers of his time" .
- Yearbook "Der Sternring" of the Free Artist Community Schanze with twelve woodcuts
- Graphic folder with six woodcuts
- Models for brass casting work
- Stations of the Cross for the Konrad Church in Münster, the Nikolaus Church in Münster-Wolbeck and for a chapel on the Freudenberg near Kleve
- Woman's head from 1921
- 46 relief sculptures for the chapel of the dormitory at Breul 23 in Münster
In 2017, the wooden relief angel with trumpet from 1928, which shows a scene from the Last Judgment, was originally shown in the chapel of the student dormitory on Breul and was believed to have been lost in a bombing after a Household liquidation rediscovered in a local second-hand shop and handed over to the city museum.
Exhibitions
- Solo exhibition "Kleiner Raum Clasing", Münster 1935
- Group exhibition in the "Galerie Heinrich Clasing", Münster 1945
- Participation in the first exhibition of the Münster Secession Association
- Post-war retrospective, Münster 1952
- Aloys Röhr - sculptor and graphic artist from Münster. Münster City Museum, May 12th to September 20th, 2009.
- Aloys Röhr - field postcards from the First World War. Münster City Museum, September 15, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
literature
- Bernd Thier: Aloys Röhr: sculptor and graphic artist from Münster. Edited by Barbara Rummy. City Museum, Münster 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Stadtmuseum shows postcards from Röhr , Münster, December 20, 2017
- ↑ a b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Relief thought to be lost emerged: Valuable chance find at "Rümpelfix" , Münster, December 29, 2017
- ↑ wolbeck-muenster.de: Stadtmuseum Münster brings the sculptor and graphic artist Aloys Röhr back from oblivion , Wolbeck, May 8, 2009
- ↑ stadt-muenster.de: Exhibitions: Aloys Röhr - Field postcards from the First World War: September 15, 2017 to January 7, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Röhr, Aloys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1953 |
| Place of death | Albersloh |