Emil Rudolf White

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Emil Rudolf White

Emil Rudolf Weiß (also Weiss , born October 12, 1875 in Lahr , Baden, † November 7, 1942 in Meersburg ) was a German typographer , medalist , graphic artist , painter , teacher and poet .

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Jury for the exhibition of the Berlin Secession, 1908, with Emil Rudolf Weiß (standing, second from right). Also from left: Fritz Klimsch , August Gaul , Walter Leistikow , Hans Baluschek , Paul Cassirer , Max Slevogt (sitting), George Mosson (standing), Max Kruse (standing), Max Liebermann (sitting), Lovis Corinth (standing)

Weiß grew up in Breisach and Baden-Baden . From 1893 to 1896 he studied at the Grand Ducal Badische Akademie in Karlsruhe with Robert Poetzelberger , created his first book artistic works in 1895 and published his first volume of poetry. Four more volumes of poetry followed by 1900. In 1896/97 there was a guest study at the Académie Julian in Paris. Weiß got to know Julius Meier-Graefe and Edvard Munch . With Félix Vallotton , Weiß equipped the calendar book The Colorful Bird . From 1897 to 1903 he continued his studies in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart with Hans Thoma and Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth and made friends with fellow students Karl Hofer , Konrad Ferdinand Edmund von Freyhold and Wilhelm Laage . In 1899 he traveled to Paris with Karl Hofer. In 1902 the patronage of the Swiss wholesale merchant Theodor Reinhart began , which ended in 1909. In 1903 he finished his studies and married the singer Johanna Schwan.

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Karl Ernst Osthaus engaged Weiß from 1903 to 1906 at the painting school of the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, which he founded . In Hagen, Weiß was extremely versatile artistically. As early as 1902 he had designed collecting pictures for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck . In addition, he was intensively active in book design, including a. for the publishers S. Fischer and Schaffstein. In 1904 he took part in the first exhibition of the German Association of Artists in the Royal Art Exhibition Building on Königplatz , which was then organized by the Munich Secession with a painting. In the same year the children's book "Der Buntscheck", edited by Richard Dehmel, was published for which u. a. White created illustrations. In 1907 Bruno Paul Weiß was appointed to the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. Admission to the Berlin Secession . Journey to Karl Hofer in Rome .

Renée Sintenis, portrayed by Emil Rudolf Weiß (1915)

In 1910 he became a professor at the Berlin School of Applied Arts (later the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art ), where he headed the specialist class for decorative wall painting and pattern drawing until 1933. In 1914 they divorced Johanna Schwan. In 1917, Weiß was drafted into military service, but was discharged after a short time due to heart problems. In the same year he married the sculptor Renée Sintenis , whose portrait von Weiß was acquired in 1929 by the art collector Alfred Flechtheim . In 1922 he was accepted into the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin. On the 50th birthday of Emil Rudolf Weiß, an extensive commemorative publication was published in 1925 on behalf of numerous publishers , honoring his book and font design work. He designed the value sides of the 1, 2, 3 and 5 Reichmark coins as well as the centenary cup . In 1927, Weiß co-founded the Baden Secession . In 1928 he designed the Weiß-Antiqua font family for the Bauersche Foundry , which is still used today. In 1929 he took part in the DKB annual exhibition in the Cologne State House with three oil paintings, including a double act .

In 1933, the National Socialists withdrew Weiss from teaching. From then on he lived exclusively from his book and lettering artistic activity and withdrew more and more often to his home in Baden. As a full member of the German Association of Artists, he took part in the last annual exhibition in 1936 at the Hamburger Kunstverein , which was forcibly closed by the Reichskunstkammer . In 1937 he was expelled from the Academy of Arts.

After his death in Meersburg, Weiss was buried in Bernau in the Black Forest at his request . A first commemorative exhibition took place in 1944 at the Freiburg Art Association .

White fonts

Among other things, White created the following fonts : White Fraktur (1913), White Antiqua (1928), White Gothic (1936) and White Gothic Gothic (1937) belonging to the French Renaissance Antiqua category .

Artistic works

  • 1899: The beggar , the farmer's wife (woodcuts), each 21 × 25.6 cm
  • 1904: apple plate
  • 1928: two girls
  • 1929: R. Sintenis with dog
  • Self-portrait , oil on canvas, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • Studio still life , oil on canvas, Städelmuseum , Frankfurt a. M.

literature

  • Know, Emil Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 325-326 .
  • Know, Emil Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 103 .
  • Barbara Stark: Emil Rudolf Weiss 1875–1942 . Monograph and catalog of his work. Lahr 1994
  • Barbara Stark: Emil Rudolf Weiss in Meersburg . Marbach aN 2003
  • Barbara Stark (Ed.): Ernst Kreidolf and the history of art. Children's book and art around 1900 . Municipal Wessenberg Gallery, Constance 2002
  • Exhibition catalog: Eros, Dream and Death. Between symbolism and expressionism. The early graphics by Karl Hofer, Wilhelm Laage and Emil Rudolf Weiß . City Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz and Städt. Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen. Constance / Reutlingen 2012
  • Barbara Stark: The ex-libris of the book and type artist Emil Rudolf Weiß. In: DEG yearbook. Bookplate art and graphics, DEG, Frankfurt / Main 1996, pp. 56–57.

Web links

Commons : Emil Rudolf Weiß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Emil Rudolf Weiß  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz, Detlef: Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures, Reimer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-496-01220-7
  2. ↑ s. Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 32: Weiss, Emil Rudolf, Hagen i. Wstfalen. Cat.no . 171: Apple plate. )
  3. ↑ alfredflechtheim.com: Emil Rudolf Weiss: Portrait of Renée Sintenis
  4. ↑ s. DKB exhibition catalog: Deutscher Künstlerbund Cologne 1929. May – September 1929 in the State House , M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1929. (p. 33; Fig. Two girls p. 108)
  5. ↑ s. List of participants 1936 in the DKB exhibition catalog of the German Association of Artists: 34th Annual Exhibition in Bonn. Pictures forbidden in 1936 , Berlin 1986 (p. 98/99: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists, 1936 )
  6. ↑ s. Emil Rudolf Weiß , in: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century , Fifth Volume (VZ), Supplements (AG), page 103
  7. ↑ Illustration on artnet.de
personal data
SURNAME Know, Emil Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiss, Emil Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer, graphic artist, painter, teacher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr , Baden
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1942
Place of death Meersburg