Erich Rein

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Friedrich Erich Rein (born February 13, 1899 in Mitwitz , Upper Franconia ; † May 26, 1960 in Stockburg , Baden) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Erich Rein studied, interrupted by his participation in the war in 1917/18, at the academy in Leipzig (1915–1917) and at the art academy in Karlsruhe (1919–1921). In the early 1920s he became a member of the Gutacher painters' colony founded by Curt Liebich . There he made friends with the Black Forest painter Karl Kühnle , who was at times his student. In 1926 he moved to Stockburg, today a district of St. Georgen in the Black Forest .

In his first creative phase, Rein was stylistically strongly influenced by Hans Thoma . The focus was on landscape painting and portraits, among others: Allegory of Innocence (1920), Virtus (1920), Early Spring Evening (1923), Self-Portrait (1923), Girl on the Meadow (1923) and The Duftige Wiese (around 1925). In the 1930s and 1940s he lived mainly from commissioned work. He painted portraits, created tombs and was involved in church restorations.

In the 1950s, Erich Rein had several, sometimes very extensive, stays in Westphalia, where he had contact with the painter Ida C. Ströver . He made drafts for the painting of the Margaretenklus Chapel on the Wittekindsberg near Minden ( Porta Westfalica ), but these were not carried out. Other, predominantly sculptural, orders are also documented from this period. In the course of his life as an artist, Erich Rein created over 250 paintings (landscapes, portraits, figurative, partly religious motifs, allegorical representations), some with references to the southern Black Forest.

He was also active in literature. In 1953 he wrote down his “memories of childhood”, wrote advertising texts and (unrealized) film scripts. Erich Rein was a brother of the physiologist and university professor Hermann Rein .

Erich Rein was buried in Villingen .

Works (selection)

Public commissioned work
  • Triberg (Black Forest): pilgrimage church Maria in der Tanne: war memorial (large altar with Madonna) in 1929
  • Villingen: formerly the Old Town Hall, now the Franciscan Museum: Carnival scene (group portrait), 1949/50
  • Mitwitz (Obfr.), Town Hall: Lindenverein (group portrait), around 1950
  • St. Georgen (Black Forest): City arms (St. George on horseback), undated
  • Göttingen, foyer of the University's Physiological Institute, bust Hermann Rein (1953)
  • Wages (Westphalia), Evang. Parish church Löhne-Mahnen, so-called Floating Christ (1959)
Private commissioned work
  • Triberg (Black Forest): Altar (1933). Originally privately owned, today Black Forest Museum
  • Triberg (Black Forest), district of Schonachbach: former Kurheim Haus Sonneneck , pictures
  • Villingen, Dechanei des Liebfrauenmünster: Madonna portrait (lost)

literature

  • Klaus Peter Schumann: A successor to Hans Thomas? An epigone of Ernst Barlach? On the biography and work of the painter and sculptor Erich Rein (1899–1960). In: Westphalia. Hefte für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde 89, 2011, pp. 301–349 (with numerous colored illustrations).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Bürger (Ed.): Erich Rein. Memories of Childhood, Mitwitz 1993 (partial print); unpublished complete manuscript, approx. 1953 (family property)
  2. ↑ Klaus Peter Schumann: A successor to Hans Thomas? An epigone of Ernst Barlach? On the biography and work of the painter and sculptor Erich Rein (1899-1960) . In: Westphalia. Booklets for history, art and folklore 89, 2011, p. 347.
personal data
SURNAME In, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rein, Friedrich Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitwitz , Upper Franconia
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1960
Place of death Stockburg , Baden