Clara Rühle

Lake Brienz (1928)

Clara Rühle (born April 14, 1885 in Stuttgart ; died 1947 in Hayingen ) was a German painter , an early protagonist of abstraction and a companion of modernity .

Life

Rühle was a student of Bernhard Pankok , Johannes Joseph Vincenz Cissarz and Adolf Hölzel . She studied in the women's class at the Stuttgart Academy of Arts with Robert Poetzelberger and Heinrich Altherr and was chairwoman of the Württemberg painters' association for twelve years . When she was elected for the chair on May 16, 1934, she was, like her deputy Elise Daimler (1875–1956), a member of the NSDAP . Both often spent time painting in the association's summer house in Anhausen. In addition to portraits, she made decorative accessories such as embroidered pillows based on her own design patterns.

Exhibitions (selection)

• March 25, 1995 to May 28, 1995: Women on the move? Artists in southwest Germany 1800–1945 in the municipal gallery in the Prinz-Max-Palais in Karlsruhe and then from June 18, 1995 to August 6, 1995 in the municipal gallery "Lovis-Kabinett" in Villingen-Schwenningen.
• March 8, 2015 to July 5, 2015: The ladies' class - female artists conquer modern art in the Städtische Galerie in Böblingen (32 works by Ida Kerkovius, Maria Caspar-Filser, Margarete Oehm-Baumeister, Alice Haarburger, Clara Rühle, Erna Raabe and Maria Hiller-Foell).

literature

• Rühle, Clara . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 168 .

Web links

Commons : Clara Rühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rühle, Clara . In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 978-0-19-989991-3 , doi : 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00157817 (English, only the beginning of the article freely accessible).
2. ^ Edith Neumann: Artists in Württemberg: on the history of the Württemberg Association of Women Painters and the Federation of Women Artists of Württemberg. Klett-Cotta, 1999, Volume 1, p. 168.
3. ^ Edith Neumann: Artists in Württemberg: on the history of the Württemberg Association of Women Painters and the Federation of Women Artists of Württemberg. Klett-Cotta, 1999, Volume 1, p. 169.
4. ↑ Die Kunst - Monthly Bulletin for Free and Applied Arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899, p. 362 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Sylvia Bieber: Women on the move? Women artists in the German southwest 1800–1945 . Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe 1995, ISBN 3-923344-31-7 .
6. ↑ Corinna Steimel: The class of women: women artists conquer the modern age . Municipal Gallery, Böblingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-928754-56-9 .