Edmund Schuitz

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Edmund Schuitz (born August 12, 1913 in Wanne ; † 1992 in Herne) was a German artist .

Life

Schuitz was born in Amt Wanne, district of Unser Fritz. After his father's death on the Western Front in 1915, his mother raised him and her two years younger sister alone. From 1927 to 1929 Schuitz completed an apprenticeship as an upholsterer , saddler and interior designer in Bickern. During this time he received drawing lessons from the sculptor and commercial instructor Wilhelm Braun , who recognized his talent early on. He recommended him for a scholarship, with the help of which he could study at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund from 1930 to 1932 . From 1933 he lived in Italy and traveled the country. This resulted in lithographs , 20 of which were printed as a book in Palermo . From 1934 to 1935 he studied with a scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and worked from 1936 to 1939 as a restorer and church painter in Rome for the Vatican.

After military service from 1940, war injuries and American captivity until 1945, he opened a painting and arts and crafts studio on Hauptstrasse in Wanne-Eickel in 1946 and worked as a freelance artist and from 1947 to 1957 as a lecturer at the adult education center in Wanne-Eickel. Günter Dworak attended his painting class . In 1947 he married Leni Grafe, daughter Ingeborg was born in July 1948 and son Raimund in 1956.

Mosaic St. Laurentius Church Herne-Wanne, 1952–1954

To support the family financially, Schuitz worked as a commercial graphic artist and accepted poster orders , before he also received public art in construction contracts from 1950 . His wife ran the shop on Hauptstrasse until 1953, which also offered wooden figures and decorative objects carved by Schuitz, as well as watercolors and drawings. From the mid-1950s to 1965, Schuitz carried out work for the Ruhrknappschaft on 13 of their newly emerging pension and sanatoriums throughout Germany.

From 1956 to 1992 he ran a studio on Claudiusstrasse in Wanne-Eickel / Herne-Wanne. The focus of his work was art in architecture, using various techniques typical of the time such as mosaic , sgraffito and stained glass . His works can be seen in numerous public buildings. Edmund Schuitz has also completed art in building projects in America, Italy and Brazil. In 1961 he won a competition in Clifton, USA, for a large stained glass window with Saint Catherine. In the 1970s he turned increasingly to etching , cutting and printing techniques.

The devout Catholic Schuitz was an honorary member of the Herner Künstlerbund and was instrumental in setting up the Wanne-Eickel adult education center with painting classes, exhibitions and lectures on modern art .

Works (selection)

Friedenskirche, Herne-Wanne-Süd, 1966
Plaster mosaic on residential building Aschebrock 23, Herne, 1956
"Wilhelmsquelle" at the corner of Röhlinghauser Strasse / Harkortstrasse, Wanne-Süd, 1966
  • since 1950: posters for the Cranger Kirmes
  • 1950: Resurrection wall painting, altarpiece of the Luther Church in Wanne-Nord (not preserved, replaced by a choir window at the beginning of the 1990s)
  • approx. 1950: meeting room of the Eickeler Amtshaus, Richard-Wagner-Straße 10, today the department of surveying and cadastre, mural with miners, boatmen and railway workers
  • 1952–1954: Mosaic of the Crucifixion of Christ in St. Laurentius Church in Wanne, Hauptstrasse
  • 1954: Lead glazing Give us our daily bread in the Herne-Wanne handicraft house
  • 1954: Plaster mosaic in the Wanne-Süd indoor swimming pool, wedding procession of Amphitrite and Poseidon (in danger of being demolished)
  • 1955–1956: Mother and child sgraffito with gold mosaic on the outer wall, 12 signs of the zodiac cut sculpture Knappschaftskrankenhaus Essen-Steele
  • 1956: Wall painting and sgraffito in the entrance area and the three stairwells of the Steinstraße vocational school in Wanne
  • 1956: The miner and his hobby: the carrier pigeon , plaster mosaic on the Aschebrock 23 residential building, Herne
  • 1957–1960: Sgraffito with gold mosaic on the outer wall, plaster cuts in the interior, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Recklinghausen
  • 1958: Window of the Luther Church in Wanne-Nord
  • 1958: Ornamental fish , mosaic column, Crange municipal secondary school, Herne
  • 1958–1960: Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf
  • Exterior facade of the IHK Bochum
  • 1961: Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Bochum-Langendreer
  • 1961: Saint Catherine , concrete glass window, St. Catherine School, New Jersey
  • 1966: Ceramic wall relief Wilhelmsquelle of the Pluto -Thies colliery on the corner of Röhlinghauser Straße / Harkortstraße
  • 1966: Door and stained glass window in the Peace Church of the Evangelical Free Church Community, Hauptstr. 127, Herne-Wanne-Süd. Door: antique glass / lead / black solder / adhesive technology. Motive: homecoming of the prodigal son. Caption: AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBT HOW WE FORGIVE OUR DEBT.
  • 1970: Pillar mosaic with fish motifs in the arcade of the Crange secondary school
  • 1984: “Graphito” on the right side of the altar and stone carvings on the pulpit of the Cranger Church , depicting the four evangelists and John the Baptist
  • 1992: "Resurrection of Christ" window in the chancel of the Evang. Luther Church in Herne-Crange

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1933: Art exhibition, Kurhaus Wanne-Eickel
  • 1948: Art exhibition, Hotel Fürst Bismarck Wanne-Eickel
  • 1949: Local artists , Wanne-Eickel town hall
  • 1951: Wanne-Eickel artists exhibit , Wanne-Eickel town hall
  • 1952: Steel and iron , Ehrenhof Düsseldorf
  • 1955: picture and book , Wanne-Eickel town hall
  • 1969: Edmund Schuitz: New forms and design in building , VHS Wanne-Eickel, Grüner Ring
  • 1977: Exhibition by the district government in Arnsberg
  • 1979: Edmund Schuitz: glass, ceramics, watercolor , VHS Wanne-Eickel, house on the Green Ring
  • 1982: Schuitz / Kuberka, watercolors, Herten town hall
  • 1982: House Ennepetal, City of Ennepetal (April 25 - June 27, 1982)
  • 1982: Municipal Tower Gallery in Walkenbrückentor , Coesfeld (June 6th - October 11th 1982)
  • 1982: Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus , Soest (September 5 - October 11, 1982)
  • 1983: Exponata, Münster, Professional Association of Visual Artists, catalog, p. 162 ff.
  • 1983: Edmund Schuitz: Etching, drawing, watercolor, glass , VHS Wanne-Eickel, house on the Green Ring
  • 1984: Volksbank Borken
  • 1985: Edmund Schuitz: Kirmes , milieu studies, Sparkasse Herne, Wanne branch
  • 1986: Edmund Schuitz: Retrospective, VHS Wanne-Eickel, House on the Green Ring
  • 1986: Exponata, Münster, Professional Association of Visual Artists, catalog p. 236 ff.
  • 1989: Herne Culture Days: Views of Herne , Municipal Gallery in Strünkede Castle Park of the Emschertal Museum Herne
  • 1990: Mixture of contrasts , Herner Künstlerbund, Pavillon Herne, September (Gad Astar, Manfred Leyh, Edmund Schuitz)
  • 1990: Edmund Schuitz: Recultivation of the heaps in Herten, Der Hoppenbruch: nature on the doorstep , RAG headquarters in Essen
  • 1991: Edmund Schuitz: sketches, drawings, watercolors , vocational college for economics and administration , Westring, Herne
  • 1997: Review: Five Herne artists , municipal gallery in the Strünkede Castle Park of the Emschertal Museum Herne
  • 2010: Herne Once upon a time. The history of the Cranger Kirmes in Herne , Künstlerzeche Our Fritz
  • 2013: Exhibition of his collected works for the 100th birthday, VHS-Galerie Herne
  • 2018: Head section , memories of mining, Schollbrockhaus Herne
  • 2018: Traces, Herne artists from the years 1893 to 1945 , Flottmann-Hallen Herne

literature

  • Peter Wittenberg; Alexander von Knorre; City of Herne: Review. Five artists from Herne: Wilhelm Imhof, Heinrich Wurm, Edmund Schuitz, Robert Imhof and Günter Senge . Emschertal Museum, Volume 52, 1997.
  • The German stucco trade . Verlag Carl Maurer, Geislingen (Steige), published in cooperation with the German Stucco Trade Association, Copyright: 1960, Editor: Dipl.-Ing. Franz Halt, Baden-Baden, 1960.
  • Exhibit 83 . Exhibition catalog, Art from Westphalia in Münster, publisher: Professional Association of Visual Artists Westphalia South / North eV, Dortmund, 1983, pp. 162–163.
  • Manfred Bourée: Herne - Great cultural and leisure guide Ruhr area . Volume 9, ed. v. Municipal Association of the Ruhr Area, 1985, pp. 30–31.
  • Exhibit 86 . Exhibition catalog, Art from Westphalia in Münster, publisher: Professional Association of Visual Artists Westphalia South / North eV, Dortmund, 1986, pp. 236–237.
  • Society for local history Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Sacred buildings and religious art in Wanne-Eickel and Herne . Der Emscherbrücher 2000. Herne, 2000, p. 12, p. 27, p. 42.
  • Alexander von Knorre: 100 objects in Herne - an art and cultural history guide through the city. PubliCreation publishing house, Herne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813266-0-4 , p. 70.
  • Society for local history Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Murderers, sausages and a people's house (= Der Emscherbrücher. 16). Herne 2013, pp. 57-68.
  • Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. Herne 2016, ISBN 978-3-936452-23-5 .
  • maz, employee newspaper of Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See, July – August 2017, no. 53, pages 38–39

Web links

Commons : Edmund Schuitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Angelika Mertmann: Edmund Schuitz (1913 - 1992). A Wanne-Eickeler painter of the "lost generation" . In: Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.), Pp. 12–13
  2. ↑ Edmund Schuitz - biography . In: Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. P. 134
  3. ^ Gabriele Heimeier: The Unknown Artist . In: WAZ of December 25, 2012.
  4. ^ Peter Wittenberg; Alexander von Knorre: Review. Five artists from Herne: Wilhelm Imhof, Heinrich Wurm, Edmund Schuitz, Robert Imhof and Günter Senge. Pp. 9-10.
  5. ^ Ingeborg Müller-Schuitz: father, mother, art and child . In: Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.), Pp. 58–59
  6. ↑ Sunday News Herne: Memories of Edmund Schuitz: Masterful painter ( Memento from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Falko Herlemann: Pictures tell the story of Wanne-Eickel . In: WAZ of September 12, 2013.
  8. ^ Ingeborg Müller-Schuitz: father, mother, art and child . In: Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.), Pp. 72–73
  9. ↑ inHerne the city magazine. City of Herne, No. 4, November 2013, p. 31. (PDF).
  10. ↑ Eickel SPD parliamentary group wants to save mosaics in the indoor pool . In: WAZ of December 12, 2017
  11. ↑ wanne-eickel-historie.de
  12. ^ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV: Herne-Wanne-Süd, Evang. Free Church Peace Church .
  13. ↑ wanne-eickel-historie.de
  14. ↑ Peter Neumann: The oldest church in Wanne-Eickel: the Evangelical Church in Crange from 1854. In: Society for local history Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Sacred buildings and religious art in Wanne-Eickel and Herne. The Emscherbrücher 2000. Herne 2000, p. 12 f.
  15. ^ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV: Herne-Wanne-Eickel, Evang. Luther Church .
  16. ^ Ingeborg Müller-Schuitz: father, mother, art and child . In: Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.), Pp. 76–77
  17. ↑ Video of the exhibition opening halloherne / tv. on youtube.de, accessed on September 15, 2013.
  18. ↑ Exhibition directory . In: Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Father, mother, art and child, childhood as the daughter of the painter Edmund Schuitz. Pp. 136-138
personal data
SURNAME Schuitz, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel
DATE OF DEATH 1992
Place of death Wanne-Eickel