Elisabeth Ruest

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Elisabeth Ruest (also: Else Ruest and Else Rust ; and Elisabeth Rust ; born April 19, 1861 in Hanover ; † March 28, 1945 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Etching of a landscape, around 1910;
from magazine for fine arts

Ruest was born in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover . She was the daughter of David Rüst , the physician, medical officer and ornithologist at the Provincial Museum in Hanover , which according to the address book of the royal residence and capital city of Hanover for 1862 as a medical assistant and assistant to the general staff physician Louis Strohmeyer at that time in the Emmer Street 3A lived where he also had his office hours from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. For her father, for example , the " Miss Elisabeth Rust" drew the panels for his articles on the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from chalk rocks published in the journal Palaeontographica in 1888 . The very fine drawings of the Mademoiselle also found attention in French-language specialist publications.

Armor later wanted to deepen her knowledge of painting, but for decades it was not possible to accept women at the Düsseldorf Art Academy due to the gender segregation. Therefore, Ruest attended the painting school in Karlsruhe and the arts and crafts school in Zurich .

Presumably at the suggestion of the artist circles of Düsseldorf, Ruest was one of the first artists to visit Schwalenberg in Lippe for the first time in 1908 , which she then visited regularly in the summer months as a member of the Schwalenberg artists' colony. As early as 1909, at her suggestion, her Hanoverian painter colleague Emil-Werner Baule followed her to Schwalenberg for art stays. Soon Ruest with her long black dress was a familiar figure in the town's streets.

Ruest created numerous etchings , lithographs , watercolors and oil paintings in Schwalenberg, which she then exhibited in her hometown of Hanover. In this way she did her part to make Schwalenberg in Lippe known in artistic circles. Some of her pictures were also exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1911 and 1912 . The accompanying publication published by the women's rights activist Hedwig Heyl and others to the exhibition “The Woman in Home and Work” in Berlin in the exhibition halls at the Zoological Garden in 1912, which was sponsored by Empress Auguste Viktoria , listed “Else Arm” at Sedanstrasse 19 in Hanover.

During the Second World War , the address book of the city of Hanover recorded the residence of the painter “Else Rust” as head of the household and the pensioner Emmy Rust as the owner at Sedanstraße 16 in Hanover's Oststadt in 1943 .

She died a little later in the air raids on Hanover , in the great bomb attack on March 28, 1945. Most of her pictures were presumably destroyed in the process.

Well-known works (selection)

  • David Rust: Contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from the rocks of the chalk . In: Karl Alfred von Zittel (Ed.): Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the prehistoric world . tape 34 (1887-1888) , fifth through sixth supplies. Theodor Fischer, Kassel May 1888, p. 181–214 , panel XXII – XXIX ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustration of your drawings).

literature

Web links

Commons : Else Ruest  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Frank Jahnke: Elisabeth Ruest (1861–1945) on the page malerkolonie-schwalenberg.de [ undated ], last accessed on April 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Hedwig Heyl et al. : Exhibition “The woman in home and at work” under the very highest protectorate of Her Majesty the Empress and Queen. Berlin, February 24 to March 24, 1912, exhibition halls at the Zoological Garden. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Rudolf Mosse, 1912, p. 28 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b c David Rust: Contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from rocks of the chalk . In: Karl Alfred von Zittel (Ed.): Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the prehistoric world . tape 34 (1887-1888) , fifth through sixth supplies. Theodor Fischer, Kassel May 1888, p. 181–214 and Plate XXII – XXIX , here p. 186 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ o. V .: Rust, David in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of November 7, 2012, last accessed on April 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ Compare the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1862, Section I: address and apartment gazette, alphabetical list of residents. P. 260 ( dfg-viewer.de ).
  6. ^ Annuaire géologique universel. Volume 9, Comptoir géologique de Paris, 1894, p. 926 (French, limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ Compare the address book of the city of Hanover for 1943, Part I: Heads of household, companies registered by the commercial court and tradespeople sorted by name. P. 465 ( dfg-viewer.de ).
  8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Sedanstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Ruest, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruest, Else; Armor, Else; Armor, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1945
Place of death Hanover