Fritz Rauh (painter)

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Fritz Rauh (born November 25, 1920 in Wuppertal ; † May 1, 2011 ) was a German painter who emigrated to California , USA, in 1954 .

Life

Rauh studied painting at the Braunschweig School of Crafts and Applied Arts (today: Braunschweig University of Fine Arts ). There he was the headmaster's favorite student, who took him into his home for the duration of his studies. In 1952 he came back from five years of Russian captivity. He had only survived there because he got an extra portion of food for every Stalin portrait he painted. Fritz Rauh first went to his parents Fritz and Millie Rauh, who at the time lived in Remscheid in the Bergisches Land. Both were against his doing painting. But he had good friends in Wuppertal in Karl and Emmi Küll, aunt and uncle, who gave him massive support in his desire to paint. Emmi was his father's sister. Both gave him the opportunity to set up his studio in a small workshop and to paint cinema posters for a printing company in Wuppertal. He finished his studies in Braunschweig, where he met his future wife Alexandra "Alix" Gmelin-Wilke. Alix came from the Braunschweig artist family Wilke ( Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke , mother of Alix, Rudolf Wilke , grandfather of Alix, Ulfert Wilke , uncle of Alix). In 1954 Fritz followed his future wife to California, USA. They initially settled in San Francisco .

Early years in California

To earn a living, Fritz worked for an energy supplier in the Rocky Mountains , but also painted intensively and successfully. His style is an evolution of tachism and was very popular on the west coast of the USA in the 1980s. Fritz Rauh perfected this type of color composition and remained loyal to it throughout his creative period. After a short time he found the interest of the art scene in San Francisco and was able to give large solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Two of his large-format paintings were exhibited in the American Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Osaka 1970 (Japan). During the whole time in California, Fritz Rauh had numerous solo exhibitions and took part in group exhibitions.

1980s to 2011

He joined the artists of the Lucid Art Foundation around Gordon Onslow Ford in the 1980s and made long-term friends among the artists in this group. He moved to San San Anselmo, an artists' village between Sausalito and San Rafael on the other side of the San Francisco Bay. In 1964 his daughter Philine was born, who later studied fashion design in New York and became a fashion designer at a young age. In 1985 Fritz Rauh retired. From then on he devoted himself only to painting. He died in 2011 at the age of 91 and left behind an extensive body of work that is documented in a catalog raisonné. Oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, watercolors and Japan Ink on paper.

Artistic success

Solo exhibitions in Californian museums and the collaboration with various galleries quickly made him known on the American west coast, particularly large solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the De Young Museum in San Francisco contributed to this. Two of his large-format paintings were exhibited in the American Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Osaka (Japan) in 1970. In Germany he was represented by Galerie Haasner in Wiesbaden until 2016. The artist has been represented in Germany by Müsse & Bahlinger Kunsthandel since 2016. His most recent major exhibition was in 2017 at the Peter Findlay Gallery, New York's Fifth Avenue.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1956: De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1959: David Cole Gallery, Sausalito, CA, USA
  • 1963: The Louvre Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1967: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1968: Trutton Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1971: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1972: Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
  • 1977: Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (1975, 1974, 1969)
  • 1980: Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
  • 1988: J. Noblett Gallery, Boyes Hot Springs, CA, USA *
  • 1992: Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA, USA
  • 2004: Fritz Rauh, 50 Years Revisited, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA, USA
  • 2009: Symphony of Colors, IONS Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, USA
  • 2010–2016: Galerie Brigitte Haasner, Wiesbaden, Germany, various solo exhibitions
  • 2016: Golfhotel Vesper, Wuppertal, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970: International Art Show at Expo'70 , Osaka, Japan
  • 1971: New Works Show, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA
  • 1978: Creation, Gallery Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland
  • 1982: Kennedy, Humble, Rauh; Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 2003: Poetic Abstractions, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA, USA
  • 2005: Modernism, Palm Springs, CA, USA
  • 2005: Art from California, B. Haasner Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany, various group exhibitions
  • 2006: Collaborations - Fritz Rauh and John Baxter, The 8 gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 2006: noir et blanc, The 8 gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 2007: Rose Rabow Galleries retrospective: 1958–1977, The 8 gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 2008: Weinstein Gallery: Landscape of Consciousness - A circle of artists at the beginning of Lucid Art
  • 2017: Fritz Rauh + Jack Wright, Points of View, Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, FL, USA.
  • 2017: Fritz Rauh + Jack Wright, Points of View, Findlay Galleries, New York, New York 10019, USA.
  • 2018: Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the SS Vallejo, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA.

Public collections

Films about rough

Web links

literature

  • Thomas Albright: Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980: An Illustrated History . University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA 1985, ISBN 0-520-05193-9 , pp. 307 .
  • Peter H Falk; Audrey M Lewis; Georgia cake; Veronika Roessler: Who was who in American art, 1564–1975: 400 years of artists in America . tape 3 . Sound View Press, Madison, CT, USA 1999, ISBN 0-932087-55-8 , pp. 2709 .
  • Jaques Cattell Press: Who's Who in American Art . Ed .: American Federation of Arts. RR Bowker, New York, NY, USA 1976, OCLC 867282046 , p. 633 .
  • Art Now Incorporated (Ed.): Art Now Gallery Guide: National & international . tape 21 , issues 9-10, 2002, pp. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Alexandra Rauh: A Look at Fritz Rauh - Painter . Bellagraphics Design, San Rafael, CA, USA 2013.
  • James Wills: Watercolors of Fritz Rauh . 2007, OCLC 852896380 .
  • The Art Gallery . tape 16 , no. 4-10 . Hollycroft Press, Ivoriton, CT, USA 1973, LCCN  67-032034 , p. 11 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • JSTOR (Organization) and Art Foundation New York: ARTnews . tape 58 . ARTnews Associates, New York, NY, USA 1969, LCCN  06-012267 , p. 24 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justus Lange: The Wilkes - A family of modern artists from Braunschweig . Ed .: City of Braunschweig, Städtisches Museum. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-91-0 .
  2. ^ Philine Rauh-Edwards. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ Gordon Onslow Ford: Creation . Ed .: Gallerie Schreiner AG. Basel 1978, OCLC 5724169 .
  4. ↑ a b c The 8 gallery - Past Exhibitions. The 8 gallery, accessed August 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Fariba Bogzaran: Landscape of Consciousness - A circle of artists at the beginning of Lucid Art . 1st edition. Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA 2008, OCLC 852908917 .
  6. ^ Findlay Galleries: Fritz Rauh + Jack Wright - Points of View. (PDF) In: https://www.findlaygalleries.com/ . Findlay Galleries, October 1, 2017, accessed August 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ David D. Keaton, Linda Keaton, Fariba Bogzaran, Elizabeth Leavy Stroman, Laura Whitcomb: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the SS Vallejo: 1949–1969 . Ed .: Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in collaboration with the Lucid Art Foundation. Sonoma, CA, USA 2008, OCLC 1037088471 .
  8. ^ Ship of Dreams - Exhibition. SVMA Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 2018, accessed August 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rauh, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2011