Hubert Rüther

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Hubert Rüther (born April 11, 1886 in Dresden ; † September 16, 1945 there ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

Hubert Rüther self-portrait (1916)
Rüther's signature on one of the Wittichenau windows
Hubert Rüther's grave in the Loschwitz cemetery

Life

Hubert Rüther began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in 1900 and from 1904 attended the royal drawing school in Dresden. Further years of training followed at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . From 1911 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , where he was among other students at Oskar Zwintscher and 1914 master student at Gotthardt Kuehl . Rüther volunteered for service as a nurse in World War I and suffered a serious head injury. After the war he continued his artistic work in 1919 and worked in Otto Gussmann's master workshop .

In 1921 the Catholic Rüther married the Jew Irena Rabinowicz , who at that time was the first woman to be enrolled at the Dresden Art School. Brokered by the Dresden architect Robert Witte , he was commissioned with the redesign of the glass paintings of the Catholic parish church of Wittichenau . While the work on the windows in Wittichenau, which Rüther was carrying out in the Beier and Walther company in Dresden, the reprisals against Rüther and his wife began. Their art was considered degenerate by the National Socialists . Irena Rüther-Rabinowicz was arrested and committed to forced labor . Because Rüther refused to break up the so-called mixed marriage with a Jewish woman, he too was harassed and banned from working. In 1944, Rüther was also obliged to do forced labor in order to make his hands unusable for further artistic work.

Against the background of years of reprisals, Rüther, who suffered from a nervous problem, committed suicide on September 16, 1945. He was buried in the Loschwitz cemetery .

literature

  • Rolf Jessewitsch u. a. (Ed.): Expressive objectivity. Fate of figurative painting and graphics in the 20th century: Works from the Gerhard Schneider Collection , Kettler Kunst 2001
  • Holger Fischer: Hubert Rüther - a forgotten painter? in: Fine Arts 1988 No. 12

Web links

Commons : Hubert Rüther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Irena Rüther-Rabinowicz on juden-in-mittelachsen.de
personal data
SURNAME Rüther, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1945
Place of death Dresden