Gustav Rutz
Karl Gustav Rutz (born December 14, 1857 in Cologne ; † August 9, 1949 there ) was a German sculptor .
life and work
Gustav Rutz was first painting student of Julius Geertz in Düsseldorf . With his fellow students from Atelier Geertz, Franz Thöne and August Flinker , Gustav Rutz went on study trips within Germany. In Munich he then trained in sculpture with Anton Hess . From 1879, Rutz settled in Düsseldorf. His studio was located in 1888 directly opposite the south side of the art academy in Haus Hafenwall 7 (today Eiskellerstraße). He became known through cemetery and memorial sculptures as well as numerous fountains in German cities. His sculptures, some in the neo-baroque style, earned national fame at that time. Around 1899 he was a member of the 1st Art Association in Düsseldorf .
During the visit of the imperial couple Wilhelm II and Viktoria at the end of October 1900 in (Wuppertal-) Vohwinkel , the "Victory Fountain with Germania" was ceremoniously unveiled. Wilhelm II praised Rutz as its creator, and on January 27, 1901, on the emperor's birthday, the victory fountain became the property of the city of Vohwinkel.
In 1902 Rutz received first prize in the competition for a Kaiser Friedrich statue in Mönchengladbach , and he was entrusted with the execution. The statue was to be placed in the vestibule of the new town hall, the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle , inaugurated in 1903 .
Rutz was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . The Goethe - Herme made of stone was created by him on the occasion of the Düsseldorf Goethe Festival in 1899 and set up in 1903 in the Malkastenpark , the former Jacobigarten .
The architect Richard Hultsch built a three-story villa for Gustav Rutz on the property at Achenbachstrasse 24 in Düsseldorf-Düsseltal from 1905–1906 .
Rutz died at the age of 91 in the senior residence of the Riehler Heimstätten .
Works (selection)
- Graves in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery : Hermes family, Jean Louis Piedbœuf , Schlote family, Schütte family
- 1892: Grave of the piano maker family Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach in the Unterbarmer cemetery in (Wuppertal-) Barmen
- 1897: Statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Burgsteinfurt , Markt (melted down as a metal donation in 1942)
- 1895–1896: Düsselnixe fountain in Malkastenpark in Düsseldorf (given to the artists' association founded in 1848 for the upcoming 50th anniversary and set up in the park in 1897)
- 1899: Hohenzollern fountain in Rheydt , Marktplatz (The fountain was quietly dismantled after the First World War.)
- 1899: Kaiser-Friedrich-Brunnen in Krefeld- Uerdingen , Marktplatz (demolished in 1938/1939 when an underground bunker was built under the square)
- 1900: Siegesbrunnen with Germania figure in front of the former district building in (Wuppertal-) Vohwinkel , Gräfrather Straße (destroyed in World War II)
- 1900: Kaiser Wilhelm I statue in Montabaur (dismantled and melted down in 1944)
- 1903: Memorial for Count Arnold II. (IV.) Von Bentheim-Tecklenburg near Burgsteinfurt Castle
- 1903/1904: Bronze fountain figure water carrier for the grotto of garden architect Martin Reinhardt (1876–1935) at the International Art Exhibition and Great Horticultural Exhibition in 1904 in Düsseldorf
- 1904: Bronze plaque of the psychiatrist Carl Pelman (made on the occasion of his retirement from service, later attached to his tomb in the old cemetery in Bonn )
- 1905: Ludwig-Friedrich-Seyffardt- Monument in Krefeld, Ostwall
- 1905/1906: Monument to Gottfried Kinkel in (Bonn-) Oberkassel
- 1907: allegorical figure "Die Musik" in front of the town hall in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld, on the Johannisberg (destroyed in World War II)
- 1907: Tomb for Christine Becker in Wiesbaden, on the north cemetery
- 1911: Sculptures on the grave of the Piekenbrock family made of Carrara marble, at the Ostfriedhof in Essen
Tomb of the Hermes family in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery
Gottfried Kinkel monument in Bonn-Oberkassel
Tomb for Carl Pelman in the old cemetery in Bonn
Tomb for Christine Becker in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden
Seyffardt monument on the east wall in Krefeld
Kaiser-Friedrich-Brunnen in (Krefeld-) Uerdingen
Main piece of the grave monument of the Piekenbrock family in Essen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Death certificate no. 696 from August 10, 1949, registry office Cologne Nippes. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Mona Sabine Meis: Historical grave monuments of the Wupper region. Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-8381-0713-4 .
- ↑ entry port Wall 7 In: Address Book of Oberbürgermeisterei Dusseldorf for 1889 , p 104
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art in particular in the XIX. Century. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, 1902, p. 382 .
- ^ Members of the General German Art Cooperative in 1899 and 1890 , Wladimir Aichelberg: 150 Years of the Künstlerhaus Vienna 1861–2011
- ↑ Visit of the imperial couple on October 24, 1900. Siegesbrunnen with the Germania, a monument created by sculptor Gustav Rutz in Düsseldorf for a whopping 30,000 marks. at www.wuppertal.de , accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Die Kunst, monthly journals for free and applied arts , 18th year 1902/1903, no. 7 (from January 1, 1903), p. 174.
- ↑ Inventory list of the Malkasten artists' association , accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Die Kunst, monthly journals for free and applied arts , 18th year 1902/1903, No. 23 (from November 1, 1903), p. 555.
- ↑ Gustav Rutz: Goethe stele in the Malkastenpark. at emuseum.duesseldorf.de
- ↑ Gravesite of the Hermes family , on rp-online.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
- ^ Grave site of the Schütte family by Gustav Rutz , on rp-online.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Gravesite of the piano maker family Ibach by Gustav Rutz, picture Manfred Goergens , on fotofinder.com, accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ The changing market. The Düsseldorf sculptor Gustav Rutz created a bronze statue in 1897 showing Kaiser Wilhelm I in a general's coat and uniform. on heimatverein-burgsteinfurt.de , accessed on September 29, 2015
- ^ The art for everyone, painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture , year 1899/1900, p. 42.
- ↑ The Hohenzollern Fountain by Gustav Rutz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. was inaugurated on Sedan Day 1899.
- ^ Kaiser - Friedrich - Brunnen , Horst Peterburs: Kaiser Friedrich Brunnen, accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Well of Victory. The figure of the goddess of victory, with a winged helmet and the imperial orb on the right hand stretched towards the sky, was designed by the sculptor Gustav Rutz and made in electroplated bronze by the Galvanoplastische Kunstanstalt Geislingen-Steige. , from denkmal-wuppertal.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
- ^ Burgsteinfurt. Opposite the princely castle, to the left of the castle mill, is the monument to Count Arnold IV., A work by the sculptor Gustav Rutz from Düsseldorf, donated in 1903 by former students of the Arnoldinum high school. , accessed September 29, 2015
- ^ The Reinhardtgarten in the exhibition. In: Rhein und Düssel , No. 24 (from June 12, 1904), p. 2.
- ↑ Ludwig Friedrich Seyffardt monument by Gustav Rutz at www.bg-bismarckviertel.de , accessed on September 27, 2015
- ^ The music of Gustav Rutz , on denkmal-wuppertal.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rutz, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rutz, Karl Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1949 |
| Place of death | Cologne |