Ferdinand Roentgen
Ferdinand Röntgen (born December 30, 1896 in Barmen ; † January 27, 1966 in Bayreuth ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Ferdinand Röntgen studied under Gustav Wiethüchter at the Barmen School of Applied Arts in 1913 . Recruited for military service, he served as an aeronaut; He later describes the stays at an altitude of 800 to 1000 meters as “ unforgettable impressions that decisively influenced my artistic development ”. After the end of the war he resumed his studies in Barmen and lived there from 1924 as a freelance artist. Together with Walter Gerber, Kurt Nantke and Richard Paling, he was the founder of the artist group Die Wupper . Several study trips, including with Nantke and Paling, took him to Normandy, Brittany and Italy. He joined the Rhenish Secession . Ostracized in 1937 as degenerate, he found work as a set designer at the State Theater in Piła / Schneidemühl from 1941 to 1945 . In 1943 he came to Bayreuth for the first time during a two-month guest performance, where he and his family settled down after 1945. In the neighborhood of the Green Hill he improvised a barrack, the "Hundinghütte" as accommodation. This makeshift building became the meeting point for the Bayreuth artists and the nucleus of the Free Group Bayreuth , an artists' association that organized exhibitions of regional art every year from 1951 onwards.
From the time in Wuppertal, among other things, portfolios with illustrations of the “ Golem ” by Gustav Meyrink and ETA Hoffmann's novella “ The golden pot ” have survived , both of which are now in the Von der Heydt Museum .
Ferdinand Röntgen was a great-grandnephew of the discoverer of X-rays, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article in the Bayreuther Tagblatt: BT spoke Ferdinand Roentgen, December 1953.
- ↑ exhibition catalog BOHÊME on the Wupper, Walter Gerber, Kurt Nantke, Richard Paling, Ferdinand X, painting and graphics 1920-1933, Bergisches Museum Schloss Burg on the Wupper, edited by Erika Günther, Wuppertal 1992, p 87th
- ↑ Herbert Barth: On the trail of cosmic secrets. About the painter Ferdinand Röntgen, born in Barmen, who died in Bayreuth at the age of 70. Westdeutsche Rundschau Wuppertal from February 2, 1966.
- ↑ Gisela Schmoeckel: The Wupper, memories of Barmer Expressionism. In: Heimatgrüße, Bergischer Almanach. Wuppertal 1989, 5-106.
- ↑ 50 years ago in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of January 28, 2016, p. 10
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SURNAME | Roentgen, Ferdinand |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1896 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1966 |
Place of death | Bayreuth |