Heinrich Rüter

Heinrich Rüter (born April 22, 1877 in Bergedorf near Hamburg, † October 20, 1955 in Hilden near Düsseldorf ) was a German painter.

Life

Rüter completed an apprenticeship as a painter and house painter before joining the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His teachers were Eduard von Gebhardt , who was close to the Düsseldorf Nazarene school , and the fresco painter Peter Janssen . He experienced the First World War as a soldier in the Balkans and Turkey . A number of paintings were created here. Rüter was married and had children. His studio was in Düsseldorf and was taken over by his pupil, the church painter Walter Putfarken , after his death .

plant

Rüter was very successful in his time and lived from orders that were given to him as a result of competitions, such as B. 1915 the mosaic decoration of the baptistery of the Krupp family in Essen and in numerous Protestant churches in the Rhineland and Westphalia . His wall paintings, frescoes and mosaics were representational and met the conservative expectations of his clients. Much of his work was lost due to the destruction caused by the war, but also due to changes in contemporary taste.

Still largely preserved in the original:

1910/1920 Bielefeld , Martini Church, representation of Luther - 1911 Bochum , Luther Church, Last Supper painting - 1912 Haltern am See , Church of the Redeemer, Fresco Consoling Christ - approx. 1920 Bielefeld, Johannes Church, glazing - 1924 Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , Church of the Resurrection, Assumption - 1925 Kamen , Luther Church , Ascension - 1931 Bochum, Christ Church, mosaic war ceremony - 1934 Lügde , Transfiguration of Christ - 1951 Hiltrop , Christ Church, Ascension - 1951 Langedreer , Luther Church, Resurrection

literature

• Rüter. In: Willy Oskar Dressler: Dressler's art manual . 2nd volume, Berlin 1930.
• Ulrich Bartels: Who created the mural in the Erlöserkirche? Traces of the church painter Heinrich Rüter. In: Halterner Jahrbuch. Haltern am See 1994.
• Kinga Luchs: the artist Heinrich Rüter. In: Hans H. Hanke (Ed.): Mosaic of the world. The Christ Church in Bochum-Mitte and the Place of the European Promise . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0116-2 .