Hellmuth Raetzer

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Hellmuth Raetzer , also Rätzer (born September 9, 1838 in Neutornow , Brandenburg province , † March 29, 1909 in Weimar ), was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Bodekessel in the Harz Mountains , illustration in the journal Die Gartenlaube , 1885

Raetzer studied landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Hans Fredrik Gude and Oswald Achenbach . He was taught in the landscape class of Achenbach from 1862 to 1867. In 1872/1873 he stayed in Rome . Together with the Gude student Carl Irmer he visited the Harz several times . Among other things, he created the oil painting Bodekessel im Harz , which appeared in 1885 as a wood engraving in the Modern Art portfolio in master woodcuts and in the same year as an illustration in the journal Die Gartenlaube . Raetzer lived and worked for a time in Karlsruhe , then again in Düsseldorf , where he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1881 he exhibited in the Künstlerhaus Vienna .

Works (selection)

Chorin Cistercian Abbey , drawing, 1859
  • Chorin Cistercian Abbey , drawing, 1859
  • Louis Henry Fontane , drawing, before 1867
  • Italian Landscape, in the Background a City on a Rock , 1872
  • Märkischer Pine Forest , 1876
  • Bodekessel in the Harz Mountains , around 1880
  • Chalk cliffs on the island of Rügen , until 1881
  • Scenic mood to Schäfer's lament , until 1881
  • Motif from Drei Annen Hohne , around 1885
  • Lot from the Okertal , around 1885
  • Waldsee , 1889
  • Mountain stream in the Ramsau
  • On the Dachstein
  • The Hohe Göll near Berchtesgaden
  • The Obersee near Berchtesgaden

literature

  • Rätzer, Hellmuth . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 431
  • Konrad Gründler: Hellmuth Raetzer, an Freienwalder painter (1838–1909). In: Local calendar for the Bad Freienwalde district , 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 470
  3. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 22, 2016
  4. ↑ 1881: List of the works of art in the depot on December 31, 1880 and received for the exhibition from January 1, 1881 to December 31, 1881 , website in the portal wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on June 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Raetzer, Hellmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rätzer, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Neutornow
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1909
Place of death Weimar