Eduard Herterich

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Eduard Herterich (born May 30, 1905 in Pulheim , Cologne district ; † July 3, 1994 in Bielefeld ) was a graphic artist and watercolor painter and lived in Bielefeld from an early age.

Life

During the First World War , Herterich belonged to a Bielefeld group of the Wandervogel , where he met the painter and sculptor Peter August Böckstiegel .

His artistic career began in the early 1920s at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts . Ludwig Godewols , mentor of well-known artists such as Böckstiegel, Wilhelm Schabbon (1890–1962), Erich Lossie (1886–1944) and Hermann Freudenau (1881–1966) taught him as a guest student there . From 1928 to 1934 he was able to study at this facility. During this time, the glass painter Karl Muggly was his teacher. Since then, his influence can be found in many of his works.

In 1944, Eduard Herterich was drafted into military service despite a severe congenital disability. He survived the captivity of war only through his artistic talent. A French clergyman noticed him. He commissioned him to make murals in various chapels in northern France.

After the war, Herterich found an important advocate in Emil Groß . Groß was a publisher of the social democratic newspaper Freie Presse , a member of the state parliament of the SPD and a member of the entire executive committee of the SPD. Don't forget Eduard , Groß is said to have always said about planned art purchases by the Bielefelder Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) or the Bielefeld housing association Freie Scholle . "Wherever you came to an AWO house, a Herterich was guaranteed to hang on a wall," Grube later recalled.

From 1956 to 1970 Herterich taught art education and local history as a part-time teacher at many elementary schools in Bielefeld . In 1979 he received the Bielefeld City Art Prize. In 1985 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Eduard Herterich died on July 3, 1994, one month after his 89th birthday in Bielefeld. Many of his works are in the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld , the Bielefelder Kunstverein or in private ownership.

Herterich's art spans the range from Romanticism to Realism to Expressionism and even to abstraction . His works were spacious, wide landscapes with detailed tree and root studies. Nature can be found in his works from the coasts of Northern Germany via Teutoburg Forest , Senne down to Munich and Tyrol .

Literature and Sources

  • Jörn Rüdiger (edit.): Eduard Herterich. Watercolors and drawings . Kulturhistorisches Museum, Bielefeld 1979 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Bielefeld, November 4, 1979 to January 6, 1980).
  • Neue Westfälische Zeitung , No. 153 of July 5, 1994.
  • Neue Westfälische Zeitung , No. 58 of March 9, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiko Bockstiegel: The alpine landscape in view . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from October 25, 2010 (accessed October 14, 2015).
  2. ↑ How it began in Greten Venn. Erich Waßer remembers.
personal data
SURNAME Herterich, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulheim , Cologne district
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1994
Place of death Bielefeld