Carl Roesch (painter)
Carl Roesch (born May 9, 1884 in Gailingen am Hochrhein , † November 27, 1979 in Diessenhofen ) was a Swiss artist.
Life
Roesch was the older of two sons of a carpenter and his wife and grew up with his grandmother in Diessenhofen, Switzerland . Due to the family financial situation, he was denied the desire to become a drawing teacher. He first attended secondary school, but his father sent him to apprentice to a carpenter. Roesch changed after a year and began an apprenticeship as a locksmith; He broke off both teachings for health reasons.
At the Technikum Winterthur he first learned machine drawing, but then switched to the arts and crafts department. After five semesters in Winterthur, Roesch went to the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe and moved to Munich in 1904 with the intention of becoming a graphic artist . There he attended the Heinrich Wolff private school for graphic arts. During his stays in Diessenhofen he worked as an amateur actor in the open-air theaters and was soon won over to design the advertising posters and the backdrops.
In 1910 Roesch met Margrit Tanner, the daughter of the St. Gallen embroidery manufacturer August Tanner, who he married in 1911 and with whom he moved to Diessenhofen. There he worked as a craftsman. Roesch traveled several times to Italy and Paris , where he came into contact with the works of Cézanne , which inspired him artistically. In 1917 Roesch turned away from working as a commercial artist in order to become a freelance artist.
Since 1945 he suffered from an eye disease that led to right-sided blindness in 1960. As a long-time member of the «Thurgau artist group», he supported the development of the art museum of the canton of Thurgau in the last decades of his life . Roesch was friends with well-known Swiss painters of his time, such as Cuno Amiet , Max Gubler , Adolf Dietrich and Ernst Morgenthaler . In 1979 he died in Diessenhofen.
Work and reception
Roesch used various techniques in his work. So far 93 oil paintings as well as around 200 watercolors , 150 pastels , etchings and 1000 drawings have been recorded from his life's work . Then there were the cardboard boxes for stained glass and from 1923 also for the 14 mosaics , which, in addition to painting, was a focus of his work.
His work is characterized by figure compositions and landscape painting , but at an advanced age he also increasingly turned to the abstract and color. Roesch also devoted himself to the design of church windows and wall paintings; in this he won several competitions.
Works (selection)
painting
- Stations of the Cross pictures in the Catholic Church of Amriswil .
- Adoration of the Shepherds. Oil painting in the reformed parish hall in Amriswil.
Frescoes
- Reconstruction of the frescoes by Tobias Stimmer on the " Haus zum Ritter " in Schaffhausen , which earned Roesch great recognition.
- In the chapel of the Schaffhausen forest cemetery .
- Christ enthroned between four angels and groups of saints. In the Catholic Church in Oberuzwil .
- In the Zwinglihaus in Zurich .
- At the Schwabentor in Schaffhausen.
Mosaics
- Dead Christ : In the church in Oberuzwil.
- At the post office in Rapperswil SG .
- At the "Haus zur Krone" in Schaffhausen.
- At the military school in Kreuzlingen .
- In the Swiss pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 .
Stained glass window
- In the churches of Amriswil (Protestant), Kölliken , Oberuzwil and Rüschlikon .
- In the rectorate of the University of Zurich .
Exhibitions
- 1906: Winterthurer Kunsthalle (first solo exhibition)
- 1939: Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen (collective exhibition)
- 1979: Thurgauische Kunstsammlung, Villa Sonnenberg: «Honor and thanks to Carl Roesch. Exhibition of works from the public domain for the artist's 95th birthday. "
- 1979: Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen: "Works on paper"
- 2006: Thurgau Art Museum in the Ittingen Charterhouse : «idiosyncratic - adapted»
- Permanent exhibition of the Roesch Collection in the Museum Oberes Amtshaus in Diessenhofen
literature
- Roesch, Carl . 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. 497 .
- Erwin Brüllmann: The painter Carl Rösch. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 16, 1940, pp. 36–38. ( e-periodica.ch )
- Carl Roesch . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 89 .
- Tyldi Hanhart: Carl Roesch: Symbolic everyday life. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 56, 1981, pp. 9-17. ( e-periodica.ch )
- Markus Landert (Ed.): Carl Roesch, idiosyncratic - adapted. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Thurgau 2006. Niggli, Sulgen 2006, ISBN 3-7212-0592-8 .
- Stefan Borchardt (Ed.): Carl Roesch. A Swiss painter. Catalog for the exhibition at the Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation from March 29 to July 19, 2015. Belser, Stuttgart 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Roesch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christoph Vögele: Roesch, Carl. In: Sikart
- Carl Roesch website
- Carl Roesch in the Thurgau Art Museum
- Carl Roesch - holdings in the Schaffhausen City Archives
- Carl Roeschs ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - Ex-libris
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the older literature the - wrong - place of birth Diessenhofen is often mentioned, cf. on the other hand the latest publications: Markus Landert (ed.): Carl Roesch, idiosyncratic - adapted.
- ↑ Willi Scholars House: Carl Roesch mosaic on Wehrlischulhaus in Kreuzlingen . In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . tape 28 , 1953, pp. 12-14 ( e-periodica.ch ).
- ^ The new Reformed Church Amriswil (PDF) on the website of the Protestant parish Amriswil-Sommeri.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roesch, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gailingen on the Upper Rhine |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1979 |
| Place of death | Diessenhofen |