Fritz Ruoff

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Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter.

life and work

After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Alfred Lörcher until 1933 . In 1943 he married Hildegard Ruoff, b. Scholl (1919–2020), who until recently managed his artistic legacy in the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation. Until his death in 1986 he spent his working years in Nürtingen.

His early work, coming from abstract expressionism , is characterized by dynamism and expressiveness. In 1948 he met the journalist Peter Härtling and became his mentor. Fritz Ruoff participated as a full member of the German Association of Artists between 1956 and 1979 in fourteen annual DKB exhibitions.

In the 1960s his path led to the constructive, meditative image. As far as we know today, the entire oeuvre comprises more than 2,000 works.

Fritz Ruoff's work is supervised by the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation, founded in 2003. The foundation has a representative selection of works by Ruoff from all creative phases. The non-profit foundation is run in trust by the city of Nürtingen.

Works by Ruoff include a. in the Domnick Foundation (Nürtingen), the art collection of the Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen , the Esslingen district collection, the Stuttgart Art Museum and the Stuttgart State Gallery .

Honors

  • In 1977 the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart appointed Fritz Ruoff an honorary member. In the appraisal by the then rector Wolfgang Kermer it is said: "In summary, it can be said: From the sculptural beginnings about expressively set symbols, whose titles such as 'Apocalypse', 'Golgotha', 'Menetekel', 'Vision' alone the deep pessimism of one until 1960, the section devoted to painting, Fritz Ruoff more and more turned to a constructive-meditative world of images, to - as one is tempted to say - only the devotion of the individual inferred 'icons'.' We have pain and to serve beauty at the same time '- Fritz Ruoff quotes this sentence from Albert Camus in a letter of September 13, 1971. And he adds:' I would like this motto, at the risk of appearing arrogant, for all of my work up to now in Claim [...] '"
  • In 1982 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit
  • In 1986 the city of Nürtingen made Fritz Ruoff an honorary citizen .

literature

  • Binder, JP / Oertel H.-M. (Ed.): Fritz Ruoff. Catalog of prints. Stuttgart 1978.
  • Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation (ed.): Catalog raisonné Fritz Ruoff (1906–1986). [CD-Rom] Catalog of selected works. Editing and research: Michael Maile. Nürtingen 2007. ISBN 3-89298-141-8 .
  • Gallery Schlichtenmaier (Ed.): Fritz Ruoff. 1906-1986. From expressive to meditative [catalog no.103]. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, May 26th - June 22nd 1991. Grafenau. Grafenau 1991. ISBN 3-89298-063-2 .
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen. [Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer; Nicole Nix-Hauck] Neunkirchen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , p. 134
  • Wirth, Günther: Fritz Ruoff. Drawings 1958–1973. Stuttgart 1974.
  • Wirth, Günther: Fritz Ruoff. Monograph with catalog raisonné of the sculptures and sculptors' drawings. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt 1981. ISBN 3-922608-03-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.haertling.de/
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibition participation by Fritz Ruoff (accessed on December 31, 2015)
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Honorary member of the Art Academy: Fritz Ruoff . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, No. 150, July 4, 1977, p. 12, with ill.
personal data
SURNAME Ruoff, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Nürtingen
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1986
Place of death Nürtingen