Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff

Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff (born January 27, 1886 in Neuwied ; † October 28, 1947 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

life and work

Coat of arms of the Neuwied district designed by Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff

Born as the son of a Neuwied master painter, Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff grew up with nine siblings. After finishing elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Wiesbaden . 1906–1907 he did his military service in Trier and then worked in his father's painting business.

After his talent in the interior design of the Neuwied Synagogue was discovered, Rüschhoff went to the painting school in Buxtehude near Hamburg . He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1912 to 1913 under Professor Heinrich Knirr .

During the First World War , Rüschhoff served as vice sergeant , but was dismissed from military service after a serious injury. After his recovery, at the end of 1918, he first moved back to his parents' house at Bahnhofstrasse 8 (Neuwied). But in the following year, Rüschhoff moved into his own house with a studio at Heinrichstrasse 44 Neuwied .

Rüschhoff quickly made a name for himself as a portrait , landscape and still life painter , and in 1925 as a designer of the coat of arms of the Neuwied district . He painted u. a. Today no longer preserved large portraits of four German musicians and poets each for the Städtische Oberlyzeum Neuwied (today Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium (RWG) ).

As a commercial artist, Rüschhoff u. a. many certificates, letters of honor, greeting cards, tourist brochures and advertisements for local companies. In addition, in the twenties and thirties he designed the title page of the Neuwied Heimatkalender (now the Heimatjahrbuch).

He also gave drawing and painting lessons for a while at the Neuwied vocational school. Rüschhoff even taught Dutch princesses several times in the same skills at Monrepos Castle near Neuwied, who were visiting their princely-wied aunts there.

From 1937 he was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and in 1938 he took part for the first time in the annual Great Art Exhibition at the House of German Art in Munich .

Two years after Rüschhoff's death, the Neuwied District Museum (now the Roentgen Museum) organized a large memorial exhibition. There are pictures of him. a. in the Roentgen Museum in Neuwied.

family

Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff was the brother of the Neuwied architect Curt Karl Rüschhoff (1887–1969).

literature

• "Honorable memory of Gustav Rüschhoff" in: "Neuwied district: home calendar for the Neuwied district", 1950, p. 17
• Friedel-Wulf Kupfer: "A gifted artist: The Neuwied painter and graphic artist Gustaf Rüschhoff died 60 years ago" in: Rhein-Zeitung, edition AN. - 62 (2007), 253 of October 31, p. 14. - Ill;
• Friedel-Wulf Kupfer: "70 years ago the artist Gustav Rüschhoff died" in: Rhein-Zeitung, Ausg. NW. - (2017), 251 of October 28, page 12. - Ill.

Web links

• Short biography of Gustav Rüschhoff in the "Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography"