Illo von Rauch-Wittlich

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Glass concrete sculptures as a frieze under the revelation altar of the Anchark Church (Neumünster)

Illo von Rauch-Wittlich (born September 3, 1935 in Swinoujscie as Illo Wittlich) is a German painter and glass painter. She also creates sculptures out of glass and concrete.

Life

Illo von Rauch-Wittlich is one of four children of the graphologist Bernhard Wittlich from Reval and his wife Grace nee. Trautmann from Riga . The parents had moved to the island of Wollin in 1927, where the father had a teaching position at the Baltic School in Miedzyzdroje . In 1945 the family fled to Schleswig-Holstein and after 1946 lived in close contact with the Carl Hunnius boarding school in Wyk auf Föhr .

From 1955 to 1960 Illo studied free and applied painting, graphics and mosaic technology at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Ortner, Grimm and Garve. Then she worked as a freelance painter and glass painter in Hamburg and Kiel. She worked in Berlin from 1974 and also in 1968/69. She had solo exhibitions in Schleswig , Hamburg and Kiel ; She also took part in the exhibitions of the State Show of Schleswig-Holstein Artists in Kiel and other cities in Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1966 she married Georg von Rauch (1947–1971), with whom she has a daughter.

Works

Color-intensive glass paintings with predominantly religious motifs. In addition, panel paintings with figures, portraits, landscapes, building and beach motifs in oil and watercolor. Compositions and drawings, material pictures, book covers and posters also developed primarily from color.

Windows and sculptures in public spaces

  • Church in Heikendorf: 9 windows.
  • Church of St. Maria in Grasleben: 2 altar windows.
  • Church of St. Petri (Altona) : three-part altar window.
  • Simonsberg / Husum church: 2 windows.
  • Church of the community center Husum-Nord: altar window.
  • Church of the Resurrection in Schleswig: altar window.
  • Neukirchen / Holstein cemetery chapel: 27 small windows.
  • Eddelak / Dithmarschen cemetery chapel: sculpture.
  • Braunschweig Medical Center: 6 windows.
  • Scholars' School Kiel: Sculpture.
  • Bauzentrum Esplanade in Hamburg: Sculpture.
  • Anschar Church in Neumünster: 7 sculptures made of glass concrete.

literature

  • Kuno Hagen: Lexicon of Baltic German visual artists. 20th century. Published by the Georg Dehio Society. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1983. ISBN 3-8046-0101-4
  • Irmgard Muenk, Illo von Rauch-Wittlich: Weaving with paper and wool. Verlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1974 ISBN 3473456047 (1977 in Portuguese: Tecelagem com papel e lã )
  • Luciano and Übers .: Illo v. Rauch-Wittlich: Colored glass pictures: technology and design. Ravensburger Verlag 1978, ISBN 3473423181

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hagen, page 107.
  2. ↑ a b Graphologie News, March 2012 : The graphologist Bernhard Wittlich (1902–1975) , presented by his daughter Renate Kümmell (PDF)
  3. ^ Gerhard Brugmann: Misdroy, Wyk, Hemmelmark. Three Christian conservative boarding schools . Chronos Verlag, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-931054-07-1
personal data
SURNAME Rauch-Wittlich, Illo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittlich, Illo (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie