Fritz Reusing

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Fritz Reusing (born December 25, 1874 in Mülheim am Rhein , † December 1956 in Haan ), was one of the last classic portrait painters at the Düsseldorf School of Painting at the beginning of the 20th century.

life and work

Richard Friedrich Reusing, called Fritz, born in Mülheim am Rhein, today Cologne-Mülheim , studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Arthur Kampf , Heinrich Lauenstein , Peter Janssen and Hugo Crola . He became a member of the academic association "Laetitia", an influential student association at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (founded around 1879), was a member of the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists and belonged to the Malkasten artists' association from 1897/1898 until his death in 1956 .

Although still a master student of Claus Meyer , Reusing made his big breakthrough at a young age. For his female portrait of "Mira", daughter of Karl Rudolf Sohn and later wife of his fellow student Werner Heuser , he was awarded a gold medal in 1901 at the International Art Exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace in Munich .

As one of the last portrait painters of the Düsseldorf School sought after nationwide, commissions took him to Berlin, Munich, Paris, Holland and Belgium, among others. However, he stayed in Düsseldorf for the rest of his life. Around 1909 he had Wilhelm Kreis build a residential and studio house in Düsseldorf on Venloer Strasse, which is no longer preserved today. In 1918 Fritz Reusing was made an honorary member of the art academy, where he was professor of the portrait painting class .

He was known for his casual, powerful portraits, in which he always successfully captured the lively characteristics of the subject. His painting style was characterized by a loose, broad brushwork, effective compositions with a virtuoso play of colors.

Fritz Reusing portrayed numerous famous contemporaries, including artist colleagues, musicians, including Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky , actors and writers, to be mentioned here Joachim Ringelnatz and Hans Carossa , as well as great scientists such as Albert Einstein and Max Planck were painted by him and industrialists and business greats like Gustav Krupp , August Thyssen , Carl Duisberg and Friedrich Carl Hermann Heye , the first president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, let himself be painted by him. For GeSoLei he created a painting of the board in 1925, on which the then leading architect for the overall urban design Wilhelm Kreis is shown. He also created representative portraits of rulers, including the Kaiser Wilhelm I. , Friedrich III. and Wilhelm II. During the First World War and the Second World War , numerous portraits of general and officers were made: 1915 Colonel General Alexander von Kluck in uniform sitting in a chair with a wound, in 1916 the group portrait with Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and his Chief of Staff Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , In 1919 Erich Ludendorff and around 1942 General Field Marshal von Reichenau , as well as the General of the Panzer Troops Friedrich Paulus .

The monumental sculpture Flora by the sculptor Carl Vilz from 1944, which was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Art Exhibition in 1947, was cast in stone for Fritz Reusing and found its place in his park in Haan, on the street later named after him, the Fritz-Reusing-Weg . The sculpture was destroyed by a beech tree in a storm.

Documentation on the portraits he created can be found in the holdings of the “Rhenish Archive for Artists' Legacies” in Bonn.

Works (selection)

Wilhelm II. , 1905

Group exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Fritz Reusing: Great men - beautiful women. Foreword by Otto Brües . Bagel Verlag, Düsseldorf 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog for the exhibition of the Academic Association "Laetitia", June 21 - July 30, 1914
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955) selection of works
  3. ↑ Portrait of Friedrich Carl Hermann Heye (1870–1937)
  4. ^ Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian (Hrsg.): Düsseldorfer Kunstmappe third series Gauleiter luxury edition, Düsseldorf Völkischer Verlag GmbH, 1942
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ^ RAK inventory list: Fritz Reusing
  7. ↑ Velhagen & Klasings Monthly Issues, Volume 42, Issue 7, March 1928, p. 88
  8. ^ Die Kunst, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1911, Great Berlin Art Exhibition, p. 479
  9. ↑ Schloss Wahn, portrait of Bjørn Bjørnson ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-wahn.de
  10. ↑ Dieter Storz: `` Monarchs and their military '', Military Society Research Office, 2010, ISBN 3-941571-07-9 , illustration on p. 56
  11. ^ Artists portray Erich Ludendorff
  12. ^ Carl Bosch, etching by Fritz Reusing, 1924
  13. ^ Fritz Reusing (1874–1956): Arthur Schloßmann pediatrician was the initiator and one of the three main organizers of Gesolei in 1926.
  14. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 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. Schloss Wahn, role portrait Werner Krauss @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-wahn.de
  15. ^ The portrait of Emil Rahmede , article from January 1, 2018 in the come-on.de portal , accessed on September 3, 2018
  16. ^ Fritz Reuter in the exhibition catalog of the participating artists of the association for the organization of art exhibitions in Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Reusing, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reusing, Friedrich; Reusing, Richard Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH December 1956
Place of death Haan