Arnold Rönnebeck

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Fireplace at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Arnold Heinrich Rönnebeck , after emigrating to the USA mostly Arnold Ronnebeck (born May 8, 1885 in Nassau (Lahn) , † November 7, 1947 in Denver ) was a German-American sculptor , lithographer and museum director.

Life

Arnold Rönnebeck was the son of the architect and Prussian government builder Richard Oskar Rönnebeck and his wife Anna. Soon after his birth, his father was transferred to Berlin, where he resigned from the civil service in 1898 and started his own business. He later became an assistant at the Technical University of Berlin and in 1908 a professor.

Arnold Rönnebeck graduated from the Dorotheenstädtische Realgymnasium in Berlin and began studying art and architecture at the Berlin Academy . He spent the winter of 1907/08 in Munich, where he studied sculpture. In 1908 he went to Paris to study with Aristide Maillol and Émile-Antoine Bourdelle . Here he found connection to the circle of artists around Gertrude Stein . In 1912 he met Marsden Hartley and made a portrait of him in bronze, which he exhibited in the Salon d'Automne . In the following year Hartley came to Berlin, where he stayed until December 1915 and built up an intense friendship with Rönnebeck and his cousin Karl von Freyburg .

During the First World War , Rönnebeck, who had done his military service in Queen Elisabeth's Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 , initially served as Vice Sergeant in the Reserve and as a deputy officer in the 2nd Guard Brigade Replacement Battalion . He was wounded in autumn 1914 and was awarded the Iron Cross II and I Class and the Hanseatic Cross in the course of the war .

In 1918 he returned to Berlin. In 1920/21 he undertook an extensive journey through Italy with Max Sidow and Theodor Däubler . A characteristic work of this time is his Ecstatic Dancer . After Marsden Hartley visited Berlin again in 1923, Rönnebeck decided to emigrate to the USA. He arrived in New York City on November 23, 1923 with Mongolia from Hamburg . He first lived in Maryland and New York and became known for his lithographs with views of New York. In October 1924 he was guest of Alfred Stieglitz in his summer house on Lake George (New York) and in 1925 guest of Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos (New Mexico) .

On March 18, 1926 he married the painter Louise, b. Emerson (1901-1980). The couple, who resided in Denver , had a son, Arnold (February 10, 1927 - August 11, 2007) and a daughter, Ursula (May 6, 1929 - February 2, 2006).

In the late 1920s he worked on the interior design of the Hotel La Fonda in Santa Fe (New Mexico) . At the same time he directed the Denver Art Museum from 1926 to 1931 . He then worked as a freelancer and was in great demand for his portrait busts.

Works in public space

  • The History of Money : Colorado Business Bank, Denver
  • Reredos (back wall): Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, Denver
  • The Ascension ( Ascension ) 1929 altar screen for the Church of the Ascension , Denver
  • Trio and Tone Shapes , 1939: Robert and Judi Newman Center for Performing Arts, Denver

Fonts

  • Through the Eyes of a European Sculptor. In: Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans: 159 Paintings, Photographs & Things, Recent & Never Publicly Shown, by Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz. New York: Anderson Gallery 1925

literature

  • Patricia McDonnell: "Portrait of Berlin": Marsden Hartley and Urban Modernity in Expressionist Berlin. In: Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser: Marsden Hartley. New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2002 ISBN 0-300-09767-0 , pp. 39-68

Web links

Commons : Arnold Rönnebeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So according to the tombstone ( memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , according to other sources November 14 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / image2.findagrave.com
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 28 (1908), p. 333
  3. ↑ Apparently private, it is not listed in the register books of the Academy of Fine Arts .
  4. ^ German loss lists of November 4, 1914, p. 2210, accessed on ancestry.com on June 15, 2013
  5. ↑ Shown in German Art and Decoration. 48 (1921), p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Rönnebeck, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rönnebeck, Arnold Heinrich (full name); Ronnebeck, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American sculptor, lithographer and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Nassau (Lahn)
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1947
Place of death Denver