Diether Rudloff

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Diether Rudloff (born November 6, 1926 in Kiel , † January 19, 1989 in La Floresta , Lleida Province , Spain ) was a German art historian , anthroposophist and writer.

Life

Born in Kiel as the first of four children, he spent many days in the rooms of his father's art print shop and in his grandfather's gilding workshop. His school years lasted exactly from 1933 to 1945, and he finished them as an air raid detector and anti-aircraft helper with the war high school diploma . From childhood, due to his polio , Rudloff was tied to a body that could only be moved with a wheelchair and with great effort.

He started studying art history , history and archeology at the University of Kiel . In addition to his studies, he founded an anthroposophical student group with fellow students. In 1953 he completed his studies with a dissertation on the Preetz monastery church .

From 1954 to 1961 he set up a museum in Eutin Castle on behalf of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg , gave lectures and taught art history at various Waldorf schools . From 1962 to 1977 he worked as a feature editor for the anthroposophical journal Die Kommenden , with which he remained connected until his death.

In 1977 he founded his own publishing house for art and humanities in Gundelfingen im Breisgau , where he published his comprehensive - but only partially realized - art history in five "different colored" book series. In addition, he was a seminar leader and lecturer in various institutions; he also went on numerous art trips.

He and his wife Waltraud spent the last years of his life on his estate in Catalonia . Four months after her death, he slept there in his fireside chair.

Works

  • The building and art history of the Preetz monastery church in Holstein. With an excursus on the problem of the Stutz basilica . Dissertation Kiel 1953
  • Eutin Castle ( Large Architectural Monuments , Issue 151), Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 1957
  • Interior design. Plaster and stucco in old and new times, between purism and adornment . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1971
  • Will beauty save the world? The therapeutic mission of art . Jakobus-Verlag (Red Series 1), Gundelfingen 1977
  • Living with contradictions. Spain's contribution to the art and intellectual history of Europe . Jakobus (Blue Row 1), Gundelfingen 1977
  • Apocalypse and prophecy. Novalis and the art of the 20th century . Jakobus (Red Row 2), Gundelfingen 1977
  • The dismemberment of Dionysus. On the sense of the lack of style in the 20th century . Jakobus (yellow row 1), Gundelfingen 1978
  • Triumph of rationality - enchanting charm. France's contribution to the art and intellectual history of Europe . Jakobus (Blue Row 2), Gundelfingen 1978
  • Between vision and construction. The East-West Contrast in European Art . Jakobus (Blue Row 3), Gundelfingen 1978
  • From Edward Munch to Paul Klee . Jakobus (yellow row 2), Gundelfingen 1979
  • From Ernst Barlach to Henry Moore . Jakobus (yellow row 3), Gundelfingen 1979
  • Unity in diversity. Foundations and beginnings of European art up to the year 1000 . Jakobus (Violette Row 1), Gundelfingen 1979
  • Romanesque Catalonia. Culture - art - intellectual history . Urachhaus publishing house, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-87838-273-1
  • Magical darkness and eloquent silence. The era of Romanesque art from 1000 to 1250 . Jakobus (Violette Row 2), Gundelfingen 1981
    • New edition (with photos by Gerhard Schütz): Free Print Edition, Grünenmatt 1993, ISBN 3-906104-02-8
  • From Gabriel to Michael. On the cultural signature of the 19th century . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1982
  • Unfinished creation. Artist in the twentieth century . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87838-368-1
  • Heaven art - earth art. The change of beauty from antiquity to the Middle Ages . Jakobus (Green Row 1), Gundelfingen 1983
  • The birth of individual beauty. From the Renaissance to the present . Jakobus (Green Row 2), Gundelfingen 1983
  • Manfred Welzel . Sculptures, drawings, aphorisms . Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7725-0823-5
  • Freedom and love. Basis for an aesthetic of the future . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1986
  • The parable of the seven arts. About the connection between the arts and the human being. Understanding a Spiritual Aesthetic . Novalis Verlag, Schaffhausen 1987, ISBN 3-7214-0562-5
  • Cosmic imagery of the Romanesque. The church ceiling by Zillis (with Christoph Eggenberger). Publishing house Peter Hemann / Urachhaus, Basel / Stuttgart 1989

literature

  • Frank Meyer: On the virtues of modern art . Interview from the magazine info3 11/1983, in: Adventure of life and spirit. 13 interviews from the field of anthroposophy , pp. 92–101. Info-3-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-924391-02-5
  • Andreas Mäckler : Conversation with DR In Anthroposophy and Painting. Talks with 17 artists . DuMont (Taschenbücher 252), Cologne 1990

Documentaries

  • El Gran Somni d'en Rudloff (2011). Director: Andreas Strasser: cinematic portrait (original language: German and Catalan), broadcast on Catalan television TV3

Web links

  • Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
personal data
SURNAME Rudloff, Diether
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, anthroposophist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1989
Place of death La Floresta , Lleida Province , Spain