Georg Röder (painter)

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Georg Röder (* 1867 in Gießen ; † September 7, 1958 in Wuppertal ) was a German painter of the German landscape.

Life

Georg Röder showed his talent for drawing at a young age and received painting lessons as a pupil. He left school at the age of 14 and completed an apprenticeship in lithography in a lithographic printing company in Giessen from 1881 to 1885. After that, Röder went on a journey as a craftsman and moved to the then thriving industrial city of Barmen . Here he worked from 1885 to 1890 as a draftsman and lithographer's assistant at the Hyll & Klein company and further developed his art of painting. As part of this activity, he specialized in the representation of industrial plants and landscapes from a bird's eye view, which among other things served as templates for posters, advertising slips and wine bottle labels.

From 1890 he had his own graphic studio in Barmen. Study trips took him to the Rhine and the Netherlands. In 1895 he attended the Barmen School of Applied Arts , where he was a student of Gustav Wiethüchter and Ludwig Fahrenkrog in 1911 . He later worked with his two teachers. In 1901 he acquired the house at Sedanstrasse 68 , the place of origin of the Galerie Palette - Röderhaus .

After the First World War , he increasingly shifted his work to book illustrations, for example in numerous commissioned works for Bertelsmann Verlag and the dialect magazine Dä Pottkieker , which was published by Barmer Staatsverlag. At the same time he devoted himself to an intensive painting activity during numerous trips through Central Europe. From 1934 to 1938 he received orders from the Reich Ministry of Post in Berlin.

After his studio was destroyed in the course of the air raid on Wuppertal-Barmen at the end of May 1943, Röder temporarily moved to the island of Reichenau , where he again ran a studio. As a result, the Lake Constance landscape found its way into his painting. In 1950, at the age of 83, he returned to Wuppertal, where he died in his studio in 1958.

Georg Röder was the "progenitor" of the Röder family of artists . He married Selma Lauer in 1891. Her first son Helmut died in World War I, the other two sons Paul Röder (1897–1962) and Adolf Röder (1904–1983) were also visual artists, as was their grandson Helmut Röder (1938–2012).

Works (selection)

The themes of Röders included depictions of landscapes and Bergische motifs.

  • Choir ruins of Heisterbach Monastery, 1908, painting
  • View from Schönaugasse to the cathedral, 1943, watercolor, city of Bad Säckingen
  • Early Spring, 1943, oil on panel
  • View of Niederzell and the Hegau with fishing boats and fishing nets in the foreground, 1948, watercolor, Museum Reichenau
  • High mountain landscape with a towering massif, wooded slopes and a mountain lake with figure staffage, oil on canvas
  • Am Steinhuder Meer, oil on canvas
  • Game of Dice / Merry Tune, oil on canvas
  • View of the machine shop Rheinwerk, oil on canvas
  • At the Wadden Sea in Munkmarsch, oil on canvas
  • Variastilleben with fruits, jug and cyclamen, oil on canvas

Works by Georg Röder can be found in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , in the Oberhessisches Museum and Gailsche Collection (Gießen), in the Rosengartenmuseum (Konstanz), in the Hohhaus-Museum (Lauterbach), in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Munich), in the Remscheid Municipal Art Collection , in the Art Museum Solingen , in the Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal), and in the Rheinkalk company collection , formerly Rheinische Kalksteinwerke .

Memberships

In 1922 Röder became a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists in Germany and in 1927 a member of the Association of German Graphic Artists . He was also an honorary member of the Oberhessischer Künstlerbund and the Ring of Bergischer Künstler (also group rbk ).

Awards

  • The sculptor Harald Schmahl created a bronze bust in 1941 showing Röder's head. It is owned by the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal. Another example is in the Röder collection of the Röderhaus in Wuppertal.
  • 1953 honorary citizen of Giessen, entry in the city's Golden Book. The "Georg-Röder-Ring" in Giessen named after the artist.
  • 1957 Dr. Ludwig Lindner Prize from the rbk group.
  • In 1977, on Röder's 110th birthday, the Wuppertal gallery Palette-Röderhaus donated a prize named after him, the Georg Röder bronze medal.

rating

Art critics refer to Röder as a “late bloom of Romanticism”. Bernd Fischer called him a “painter of the German landscape who hated speculative experimentation”.

Special exhibitions entitled “German and Italian Landscapes by the Röder Family of Painters” were shown in the Wiesbaden State Museum and the Folkwang Museum in Essen . Röder, who never let himself be tied to the landscape genre, showed his particular versatility with his bizarre musician portrait "Game of Dice / Merry Tune", which was auctioned in 2007 at Christie's London auction house .

Georg Röder: “What I am not aiming for is to reproduce nature in all its details. I am looking for the characteristic and harmonious structure and the atmospheric of a landscape. "

literature

  • Ludwig Lindner: Georg Röder, painter of the German landscape. Published for the 80th birthday. Wuppertal 1947. 48S.
  • Dagmar Klein, Sabine Fehlemann (ed.): The Röder family of painters. From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2004. 44S.
  • Sepp Schüller: Georg Röder, 1867–1958: painting, hand drawings, graphics . For the exhibition from March 17, 1968 to May 30, 1968 Gruppe Rbk, Galerie Palette, Röderhaus. Wuppertal 1968. 12S.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Von-der-Heydt Museum Wuppertal, Eva Rowedder: Skulpturensammlung , Wuppertal 1987, ISBN 3-89202-004-3 , p. 174
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Evangelical Thomas Congregation Gießen: Who was the painter Georg Röder? → online
  3. ^ Michael Zeller auction house: artist index. Lindau → online
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Udo Garweg: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, pp. 319-320
  5. ↑ a b Regine Schulz: It all started with the artists' meeting point. The Röderhaus range on Sedansberg in Barmen. In: Uwe E. Schoebler (Ed.): Bergisches Almanach 1990 , Bergische Blätter , pp. 90 and 91
  6. ^ A b Tourism Untersee eV: Art Route Untersee. Experience the landscape - discover art. → online
  7. ↑ Elke Pies (Ed.): No limits: group rbk - art and artists 1946–1996. With a foreword by Johannes Rau . Brockhaus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-930132-06-0 .
  8. ↑ Kulturpreise.de: Georg Röder Medal from the Galerie Palette Röderhaus. → online
  9. ↑ The conversation lexicon, Günter Könke. → online
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the German landscape
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1958
Place of death Wuppertal