Oskar Rosi

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Oskar Wladimir Rosi (born November 11, 1922 in Reval , Estonia , † January 8, 2010 in Aurich ) was a German artist . Since 1973 he lived in the East Frisian Zwischenbergen .

life and work

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Rosi grew up in the Crimea. His father came from the Baltic States and worked as a botany professor in Yalta . His mother was of German descent. In 1943 Rosi began studying art in Odessa. From 1943 he lived in Berlin. There he continued his studies with Professor Wilhelm Tank at the University of the Arts . During the war he also worked temporarily as a translator for the German defense .

After the end of the war he moved to Frankfurt. There he worked as a freelance painter and was particularly active as a portraitist . Rosi's artistic work originally comprised exclusively works of painting. Later he turned to working with natural materials such as wood, stone, metal and glass, which he transformed into pictures, reliefs and sculptures. He was particularly interested in the mosaic technique, in particular glass mosaics. In order to develop this technique further, he stayed temporarily in Ravenna. After his return to Frankfurt he founded a mosaic studio there and designed “numerous works, in particular mosaics and concrete-glass windows for churches, chapels and other public buildings with related, often religious and biblical themes”. Among other things, Rosi made church windows for the Christ Church in Spetzerfehn , for the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt-Sossenheim and for the chapel of the Evangelical Hospital in Oldenburg .

In 1973 he bought the house of a grocer in his adopted home, the East Frisian Zwischenbergen , and redesigned it according to his needs. The artist placed heavy boulders in the corners of the house, which he had pulled into the building by hand with the help of a friend. The artist built a concrete stained glass window into the former barn door. But he kept his studio in Frankfurt all his life.

Rosi was married to the Frankfurt painter Irma Rosi. He was considered a public shy. An artistic estate can be found in the Kunsthaus Leer - archive for art from East Friesland.

Exhibitions

Group exhibition
  • 2016 The collections of the Kunsthaus Leer, Part I , Leer

media

  • Life artist: Oskar Rosi, the East Frisian painter. Magazine article Hello Lower Saxony. Broadcast November 15, 2005 NDR .
  • Life artist. Documentary by Johann Ahrends, 2005, 60 minutes, first broadcast January 7, 2006 NDR. It contains a portrait of the 90-year-old Russian painter Oskar Rosi.

literature

  • Eva Requardt-Schohaus: Columns of people in the Dome of the Rock. Artist Oskar Rosi from Wiesmoor and his unique house . In: Ostfriesland Magazin issue 12/2000. P. 110 f.
  • Ingrid Mößinger : Catalog Oskar Rosi. Collection Dr. med Ernst Roscher . Frankfurt am Main no year

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth is unknown. The data here are based on entries in the marriage certificate of the registry office in Frankfurt am Main. According to Walter Baumfalk (see separate itemization of fine arts in East Friesland in the 20th and 21st centuries ), a birth in the years 1916, 1920 or 1921 is also conceivable. According to the information provided there, Rosi may have made herself younger so as not to become Soviet Army to be drafted.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Walter Baumfalk (Ed.): Fine arts in East Friesland in the 20th and 21st centuries. An artist lexicon . Aurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-940601-33-9 , p. 366 f.
  3. ↑ a b c d Gabriele Boschbach: Künstlerhaus is left to decay . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung of July 23, 2014.
  4. ^ A b c Barbara Delvalle: More light in the hospital chapel . Press release of the Klinikum Oldenburg dated February 9, 2007. Accessed January 4, 2015.
  5. ^ Parish of Spetzerfehn: About us . Retrieved January 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Irma Rosi and Horst Klärner: The stained glass windows. In memory of the Sossenheim artist Oskar Rosi, who died in his adopted home East Friesland . In: Evangelische Regenbogengemeinde Sossenheim: Gemeindebrief August - October 2010 edition. Retrieved on January 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Alexandra Flieth: Paradise lost. In: Highest circular sheet . December 4, 2015 [accessed June 24, 2016] (Irma Rosi retrospective).
  8. ^ District of Leer: Kunsthaus Leer [accessed June 24, 2016].
  9. ^ Kunsthaus Leer, previous exhibitions .
  10. ^ Entry in the artist film database on the website of the Institute for Foreign Relations .
  11. ↑ Life artist. In: Lexicon of International Films . Two thousand and one .
personal data
SURNAME Rosi, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosi, Oskar Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2010
Place of death Aurich