Hubert Ritzenhofen

Hubert Ritzenhofen (born October 3, 1879 in Amsterdam , † April 7, 1961 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .

Life

After his first training at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , Ritzenhofen studied from 1896 to 1907 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Heinrich Lauenstein , Willy Spatz , Eduard Gebhardt and finally as a master student of Claus Meyer . Since 1903 he had his own studio in the academy building. In 1904 he lived at 8 Dammstrasse.

From 1926 to 1961 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . Ritzenhofen stayed in Düsseldorf and worked as a landscape , marine , genre and portrait painter . He went on study trips to the Netherlands , Belgium and France . He mainly chose motifs from Düsseldorf and the surrounding area.

His oil painting White Sunday in St. Lambertus can be seen on permanent loan from the Ritzenhofen family in the Düsseldorf City Museum . His son Walter Ritzenhofen, born in Düsseldorf in 1920, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Wilhelm Schmurr and also became a painter.

Exhibitions (selection)

Works by Ritzenhofen were shown in several exhibitions:

1904: The monastery cook and May devotion in the annual exhibition in the royal glass palace in Munich

1907: On White Sunday or White Sunday in St. Lambertus Large art exhibition in Düsseldorf

1912: La Panne spring exhibition in Düsseldorf

October 17 to November 21, 1979: Hubert Ritzenhofen - a painter and draftsman from old Düsseldorf in the Düsseldorf City History Museum

January 16 to March 31, 1984: Hubert Ritzenhofen (1879–1961); Hand drawings, Düsseldorf motifs in the G. Paffrath Gallery in Düsseldorf

literature

The Rhineland . A. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1906, p. 187 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Figure: Moon night in the dunes ).
Ritzenhofen, Hubert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 392 .
Gisela Cursiefen: Hubert Ritzenhofen 1879–1961: Life and Work. Tenea, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932274-48-2 .

Web links

Hubert Ritzenhofen in the virtual catalog art history
Hubert Ritzenhofen , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

↑ Ritzenhofen, Hubert . In: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition ... in the royal glass palace . Artists' cooperative, Munich 1904, p. 90 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 438.
↑ Die Kunst - Monthly Bulletin for Free and Applied Arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899, p. 462 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustration of the painting).

personal data
SURNAME	Ritzenhofen, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1961
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Ritzenhofen, Hubert . In: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition ... in the royal glass palace . Artists' cooperative, Munich 1904, p. 90 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 438.

[3] Die Kunst - Monthly Bulletin for Free and Applied Arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899, p. 462 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustration of the painting).