Karl Rüter

Karl Rüter (born October 21, 1902 in Limmer , † February 18, 1986 in Bremen ) was a German painter.

biography

From 1920 to 1923 he attended the Hanover School of Applied Arts . He was a student of Richard Schlösser and Carl Wiederhold . He later became a member of the Neue Sachlichkeit group in his hometown. Her work has only been publicly recognized in recent years, for example through an exhibition in the Sprengel Museum and through some book publications.

Rüter made numerous trips to Italy , Spain and Prague . In 1943, his studio in downtown Hanover was bombed out, so that only six paintings from his pre-war work remained. In 1964 he moved to Bremen, where he died in 1986.

Honors

In 2003, the state capital Hanover honored the artist by naming Karl-Rüter-Strasse in the List district .

Literature (selection)

Ludwig Zerull (red., Layout), Günter Barz, Michael Herling (photos): Hanoverian painter of the New Objectivity , accompanying document to the (traveling) exhibition of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hanover , the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation and the Sprengel Museum Hanover , Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, self-published, Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1991, passim

Web links

Article in Die Welt about the exhibition in the Sprengel Museum

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Zimmerman : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277–286; here: p. 277

personal data
SURNAME	Ruter, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Limmer (Hanover)
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1986
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Helmut Zimmerman : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277–286; here: p. 277