Christian Friedrich Rautenberg

Christian Friedrich Rautenberg (born October 28, 1906 in Hamburg ; † June 1, 1979 there ) was a German painter and draftsman .

Life

Christian Rautenberg was the third of four children from the marriage of the Hamburg State Council and Senate Syndicate Ernst Otto Rautenberg (1876–1961) with his wife Charlotte Adolphine Rautenberg, née Voigt (1876–1967). His eldest brother Heinz Otto (1904–1994) was a historian at the Schleswig-Holstein State Library and his youngest sister Hulda Rautenberg (1913–2002) was a teacher, artist and author in South West Africa. His grandfather Ernst Theodor Rautenberg (1842–1913) was a high school professor and headmaster, headed the state collection of prehistoric antiquities in Hamburg from 1880 to 1890 and from 1890 was a member of the commission of the Museum of Ethnology .

From 1925 to 1927 Rautenberg completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, which he completed with a journeyman's examination. From 1927 to 1932 Christian Rautenberg studied together with his Bergedorf artist friend Frithjof Matthiessen at the Kassel Art Academy under Georg Burmester and then at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin . His main occupation was from 1932 until his retirement in 1968 as a drawing teacher at a grammar school in Hamburg-Bergedorf and lived in Wentorf near Hamburg .

Rautenberg was a member of the Hamburger Kunstverein . At the beginning of his work he turned to the New Objectivity . His objective conception of the world found particular expression in the sharpened eye for dwindling handicrafts and rural cultural life. In addition to atmospheric depictions of fishermen amid their boats and nets, there are motifs of carpenters on the building site, of circus life and fairs. Carousel horses and gypsy wagons were his motifs up to harvest scenes, farm work and the rural house slaughter with the associated chores.

Rural scenes, again and again half-timbered and thatched roof farms, horses, cows, farm wagons are depicted lively, lightly and sensitively. During the war , rather gloomy works emerged in the German eastern regions . Already in the late 1930s he turned to landscape painting, in which he achieved visible mastery, led Rautenberg through the landscape of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony . The Elbe and adjacent landscapes ran like a ribbon through his work.

Rautenberg exhibited in Berlin and Hamburg. Two of his etchings are in the State History Collection of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library .

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions:

• 1933: Fritz Duigkuhn, Christian Rautenberg, Eberhard Rüter - caricatures of the 18th and 19th centuries , Kunstverein in Hamburg
• 1938: Hamburg artist , Kunstverein in Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg
• 1939: The Port of Hamburg , Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
• 1939: German painting and sculpture of the present , art association in Hamburg
• 1941: Autumn exhibition of Hamburg artists , art association in Hamburg
• 1977: Paul A. Weber, Frithjof Matthiesen and Christian Rautenberg , Wentdorf, church

posthumously:

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Institution, title of the exhibition, relevance?

• 1980: Wohltorf
• 1981: Hamburg
• 1981: Reinbek
• 1982: Erika Kerstein, Frithjof Matthiessen, Christian Rautenberg. Three Schleswig-Holstein art teachers from the youth movement, special exhibition of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Schauenburgerhalle, Kiel Castle
• 1983: Hamburg-Bergedorf
• 1986: Lauenburg
• 1986: Reinbek Castle

literature

• Rautenberg, Christian. In: Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's who in the Arts. A Biographical Encyclopedia Containing Some 13,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2, Who's Who-Book & Publ., 1978, p. 87.
• Rautenberg, Christian. In: Paul Schmaling: Künstlerlexikon Hessen-Kassel 1777-2000. Jenior Verlag, Kassel, 2001.
• Renate Paczkowski: Erika Kerstein, Frithjof Matthiessen, Christian Rautenberg: 3 Schleswig-Holstein art teachers from the youth movement . Catalog of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library for the exhibition in Kiel Castle, Kiel, 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Otto Rautenberg in Kalliope
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Otto Rautenberg. woydt.be; Retrieved February 25, 2017.
3. ↑ Hulda Rautenberg. Namibiana Book Depot; Retrieved February 25, 2017.
4. ↑ 622-1 / 217 Rautenberg, 1802-1969 (inventory). ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburg State Archives .  
5. ^ ^{A b} Rautenberg, Christian. In: Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's who in the Arts. A Biographical Encyclopedia Containing Some 13,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2, Who's Who-Book & Publ., 1978, p. 87.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Erika Kerstein, Frithjof Matthiessen, Christian Rautenberg. In: Schleswig-Holstein. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund , 1982, p. 190.
7. ↑ Flat landscape. Digicult .
8. ↑ Riverside landscape with boats. Digicult.
9. ^ Christian Rautenberg at Artfacts; Retrieved February 25, 2017.
10. ↑ Martin Papenbrock (Ed.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions. An annotated bibliography. Exhibitions of German contemporary art during the Nazi era. VDG, 2000. ISBN 978-3-897-39041-6
11. ↑ Exhibitions 1858–2010. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Art Association in Hamburg.