Amelie Ruths

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Marie Amelie Ruths (born April 28, 1871 in Hamburg ; † April 3, 1956 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist who was best known as a painter of the Vierlande and Halligen .

Life

Amelie Ruths came from a middle-class Hamburg family and was at a secondary school for girls during her school days. Already in her youth she received drawing and painting lessons from her uncle, the landscape painter Valentin Ruths . After the death of her father, she trained as a drawing teacher on the advice of her uncle in order to be able to earn a living. She attended the Hamburg trade school with the exam as a drawing teacher. After that she worked as a teacher in school from 1890; from 1892 she was in the Hamburg address books as painting u. Drawing teacher listed.

Grave slab in
the women's garden

After her uncle's death in 1905, she took life drawing lessons with Carl Rotte at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . For several summers she visited the Belgian landscape painter Henry Luyten (1859-1945) in his Antwerp Institute des Beaux Arts Henry Luyten and also in Brasschaat for outdoor studies. Further study trips to Belgium and Italy (Florence, Rome, Naples) followed. In 1910 she was listed as a painter in the Hamburg address book, although she was teaching.

Amelie Ruth visited the Halligen for the first time in 1920, after which she returned annually. Pictures of the Halligen, alongside those from the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea coast and the Vierlanden, formed the focus of her work, even after she left school after a serious illness in 1929. In addition to these landscapes, she created architecture, interiors, still lifes and portraits.

Amelie Ruths was a member of both the German Association of Artists and later of the GEDOK as well as of the Hamburg Art Association , since 1950 as their honorary member. The Ruths family stuck together closely; since her father's death, Amelie Ruths has always shared the respective apartment with her younger siblings Frieda and Rudolph, who both worked in school. The uncle had also lived with them until his death. Amelie Ruths died in 1956 shortly before the age of 85.
In the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg there is a grave slab for members of the Ruths family, including Marie Amelie Ruths and Johann Georg Valentin Ruths.

Works (selection)

  • Still life with a bouquet of tulips (1911); Still Life (1911); Large Autumn Flower Still Life (1926); Large bouquet of flowers (1938); Bouquet of roses in a ball vase (1944); Still life with flowers with zinnias.
  • Hinterm Deich (north beach) (1927); Coast Scene (1933); Hallig at low tide (1938); Lonely Terp (1942); Hallig landscape (1946); Halligkante (1946); Terps with lighthouse on Langeness (1950); Hallig landscape in the evening light (1952); Sylt coast ; Bremen, view from the Teerhof to the Schlachte ; North German homestead in autumn ; View of Sylt ; Dike landscape.
  • Rural living interior ; Hall in East Frisia ; Frisian interior.
  • Gleaners (1918); Water carrier ; Portrait of a blonde girl ; Portrait of an old lady.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg address book 1892, part III, p. 438 - Ruths, Amelie, Mal- u. Drawing teacher, Borgfelde, Mittelweg 33.SUB Hamburg, State Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Hamburg Address Book 1910, Part II, p. 648 - Ruths, Amelie, Miss. Kunstmalerin, Heinrich-Hertz-Str. 98th SUB Hamburg, State Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Ruths, Amelie ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 31, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Ruths, Amelie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruths, Marie Amelie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1956
Place of death Hamburg