Ferdinand Roentgen

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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

  1. ↑ Article in the Bayreuther Tagblatt: BT spoke Ferdinand Roentgen, December 1953.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Gisela Schmoeckel: The Wupper, memories of Barmer Expressionism. In: Heimatgrüße, Bergischer Almanach. Wuppertal 1989, 5-106.
  5. ↑ 50 years ago in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of January 28, 2016, p. 10
personal data
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