Georg Harms-Rüstringen

Georg Harms-Rüstringen (born November 2, 1890 in the Oldenburg community of Heppens , then Rüstringen , later Wilhelmshaven; † October 14, 1955 in Rastede ) was a well-known German painter and etcher.

After successfully attending primary school, Harms became a painter's apprentice. One of his paintings of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg met with approval. Harms was given the stage name Rüstringen in honor (from then on he called himself Harms-Rüstringen) and made it possible to study art. Funded by the Oldenburg Chamber of Crafts and the State of Oldenburg, he began training at the Buxtehude School of Painting and later studied at the Art Academy in Weimar and temporarily in Munich . His teachers in portrait painting and etching included professors Max Thedy , Otto Rasch and Fritz Mackensen .

In 1916, after earning his diploma, he returned to his hometown and had studios in Grünstraße, later Hegel- / Gökerstraße and finally Göker- / Fritz-Reuter-Straße. The oil paintings and etchings created there met with great approval at exhibitions in Bremen, Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven. They were sold in art dealers in Wilhelmshaven, but also in Berlin , Oldenburg , Lübeck and other cities. Some of his works were also used as book illustrations. In addition to motifs from his near and far home, he increasingly erased maritime motifs in the 1930s and 1940s.

In Wilhelmshaven, Georg Harms-Rüstringen was one of the founders of the "Kaiser-Friedrich-Kunsthalle" and gained a lot of recognition and respect beyond the borders of Wilhelmshaven , especially through numerous oil paintings and masterful etchings .

So he came to property and prosperity, but Harms lost everything in the heavy bombing of British and American bombers in World War II .

Since then he has lived withdrawn from the public with his wife Käthe Harms geb. Bredlow in Rastede until his death . His widow died childless in 1965, the remaining property was dissolved and widely dispersed.