Oswald Römer

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Old farmhouse in Schwarzenau, oil painting, 54 × 40 cm, Oswald Römer, 1987.

Oswald Römer (born May 11, 1938 in Berghausen ; † June 27, 1998 in Schwarzenau ) was a German draftsman , animal and landscape painter .

Live and act

Oswald Römer was born on May 11, 1938 as the eldest son of August and Emmi Römer. Busch, born in Berghausen, Wittgenstein district. As a child and youth he made drawings and first oil paintings of local game. He soon received professional support: The animal painter Renz Waller from Mettmann, who was evacuated during the Second World War because of the Allied air raids, lived in his birthplace . Römer was inspired by the motifs of the hunt and for hunting depictions in Waller's painting and drawing technique.

After primary school in his hometown and a three-year apprenticeship as a painter and house painter from 1954 in Berleburg, he moved to Cologne in 1957 , where he worked as a designer for wallpapers and fabrics. As early as 1959 he ran a wallpaper design studio in Cologne and designed numerous landscape and natural wallpapers.

After obtaining his hunting license , he combined hunting ambitions with his artistic passion. Stalking and sitting , observing the game in wind and weather, the changing moods of the seasons, Romans faithfully reproduced in a large number of paintings and drawings. His view of the anatomy of animals and their behavior enabled him to translate his observations into a personal artistic representation. After 25 years in his learned profession, he gave up his studio and ventured into artistic independence. In 1984 Römer bought an old farmhouse in Schwarzenau and moved back to Bad Berleburg a year later . In Schwarzenau's Upper Hüttental he renovated his half-timbered house and set up his studio there. After that, he devoted himself exclusively to animal and hunting painting, including a variety of realistic portraits of people, and the hunt itself.

Oswald Römer's tomb

Oswald Römer was awarded the Culture Prize of the German Hunting Protection Association in 1995 as part of his exhibition in the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich . The award ceremony was carried out by then DJV President Gerhard Frank . Römer created numerous paintings and drawings, numerous illustrations in hunting magazines, books and calendars. His life's work was documented in the illustrated book Meine Bilder, published in 1995 , to which the animal filmmaker and television presenter Heinz Sielmann wrote a two-page introduction.

Ten years after his death, on the initiative of the Düren District Hunters' Association in Heimbach / Eifel, a commemorative exhibition was held on the occasion of his 70th birthday and 10th anniversary of his death, in which 70 exhibits by the artist were shown.

Oswald Römer died on June 27, 1998 at the age of 60.

honors and awards

  • 1995 DJV culture award

family

Oswald Römer was married for the second time and had a daughter from his first marriage.

literature

  • Rolf Kröger: Oswald Römer hunts with a brush and pen. In: Wild and Dog . 11/1987.
  • Wolfram Martin: Oswald Römer †. His passions: painting and hunting. In: Wild and Dog. 15/1998.
  • Knut Pezus / Hubertus Zander: Oswald Römer, commemorative exhibition for his 70th birthday, April 20, 2008 - May 18, 2008, Heimbach / Eifel 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst-Otto Pieper: Oswald Römer on the 70th birthday and 10th anniversary of his death. https://www.wildhueter-st-hubertus.de/oswald-roemer Last accessed: March 16, 2019, 11.00 a.m.
  2. ↑ Oswald Römer: My pictures. Bad Berleburg 1995, pp. 6-7
  3. ↑ editorial: 70 works of hunting painting. In: German hunting newspaper. April 1, 2008, accessed on March 16, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ By Wolfram Martin: Roman admirers angry. June 9, 2008, accessed on March 16, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Rolf Kröger: Oswald Römer hunts with a brush and pen. In: Wild and Dog . 11/1987, pp. 48-49
  6. ↑ Wolfram Martin : Oswald Römer †. His passions: painting and hunting. In: Wild and Dog. 15/1998, p. 11
  7. ↑ DJV Culture Prize - German Hunting Lexicon - Knowledge about hunting, nature, nature conservation, dogs and the outdoors. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Römer, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, animal and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berghausen
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1998
Place of death Schwarzenau