Franz Ruffing

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Franz Ruffing (born October 12, 1912 in Cologne-Kalk , † April 20, 1989 in Meerbusch-Büderich ) was a Rhenish artist, painter and graphic artist.

Life

Franz Ruffing was the first of the four children of the master blacksmith at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz Friedrich Ruffing and his wife Caroline, b. Müller, born.

Franz attended elementary school in Kalk and after the fourth grade went to Middle School for Boys II in Kalk. He left this in 1928 after the tenth grade to learn a practical profession. Together with his friend Erich Potthoff, he visited the art work group of the art educator Fritz Griebel , where they were instructed to work and design artistically “without inhibitions” . Franz Ruffing began an apprenticeship as a printer in 1930 at the Kölnische Zeitung in the M. DuMont Schauberg publishing house , which he completed in 1934; until 1935 he worked in this company. During this time, Ruffing painted privately and attended courses in the Cologne factory schools . Here he met his classmate Anny Laugomer, whom he married in 1936. The couple moved to Bonn , where their daughter Jeanette was born in 1938. Franz Ruffing worked at the Peter Ohlef paper processing plant in Bonn. A certificate issued on June 18, 1947 states that he built up and expanded the gravure printing department in this company and during this time successfully passed the master craftsman's examination - probably in 1937/1938 - in the subjects of photography , retouching, etching, single and multi-color printing . When Ruffing was drafted as a soldier in 1942 and was stationed first in Germany and Austria, then in France, his wife and daughter first moved to their parents in Düsseldorf and, after the bombing, to the family of her brother and parents in Büderich .

Franz Ruffing was taken prisoner by the French after the Second World War. At the instigation of the worker Gaston Paul from Gannat , who worked for the Ohlef company, Ruffing was "conscripted" to Gannat. Although he lived there as a prisoner of war, he had family connections and was able to paint in his free time. After his release from captivity in 1947, he moved to Meerbusch-Büderich to live with his wife and daughter. He met Erich Potthoff again, who was initially able to win him over to design the union's youth magazines. At the beginning of the 1950s, he started advertising at Mannesmann in Düsseldorf. He worked there for 25 years, most recently as a department head.

After his retirement in 1977 Franz Ruffing stayed in Italy in Chiappa or in Germany. He continued to make drawings, including with Büderich motifs. Two of these works are included as prints in the annual folders “Meerbusch seen by artists”, which were published by the city of Meerbusch: 1978 “Der Fronhof” and 1987 “Der Röttgenhof”.

Awards and memberships

In 1950 he received the art prize of the city of Krefeld. He was a member of the Young West artist group , the German Association of Artists and the New Rhenish Secession .

Works

  • Franz Ruffing: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld. Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics. Exhibition in the Studio for Modern Art, March 13 - April 18, 1949. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 1949
  • Cologne. Published by the City of Cologne, design: Toni Feldenkirchen, Franz Ruffing, Walter Dick, DuMont Schauberg, 1951.

literature

  • Contribution by Gert Höffmann in: Meerbuscher Geschichtshefte. Issue 3. Meerbusch 2003, pp. 100–118.
  • Colored graphics 1955. November 16, 1955 - January 5, 1956, exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Bremen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ diss.fu-berlin.de: The Art dispute over modernity in German Artist Union. Chapter 4: The analysis of the annual exhibitions from 1951 to 1955 (p. 172; accessed on December 31, 2015)
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Ruffing, Franz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 31, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ kunsthalle-bremen.de: Exhibition catalogs 1950-2004 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 31, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Ruffing, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Kalk
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1989
Place of death Meerbusch-Büderich