Rolf Retz-Schmidt

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Rolf Retz-Schmidt (born June 16, 1928 in Stavanger as Rolf Retz Schmidt, † September 22, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a Norwegian - German painter and graphic artist of the modern age .

life and work

Rahlstedter Strasse 49 in Hamburg. It was here that Rolf Retz-Schmidt set up his first studio in his parents' apartment in 1952. The house no longer exists today.

Rolf Retz-Schmidt was born in Stavanger , Norway , the son of a Norwegian and a German . He grew up in a Protestant home. In 1939 the family moved to Germany, initially to Berlin . Further stations were Dresden , Lübeck and finally from 1946 Hamburg-Rahlstedt , which became his second home. There he completed his school education in 1949 with the Abitur. From 1949 to 1952 an apprenticeship took place at the Hamburger Baukreis . Arnold Fiedler , Walter Siebelist and Hans Martin Tibor were among his teachers . During his training and, subsequently, Retz-Schmidt worked as household and commercial artist worked.

In his early phase as a freelance artist, influences from Impressionism , Cubism and Expressionism as well as Wassily Kandinsky and Ernst Wilhelm Nay can be seen . Since around 1953 and throughout his subsequent creative period, the cosmos has always been a fascinating topic for him. From 1955 he exhibited works on this topic. His works in the period from 1955 to 1958 can be assigned to Informel or Tachism . Rolf Retz-Schmidt is one of the few abstract painters in Northern Germany in the 1950s and one of the few representatives of Tachism in Hamburg during this period. From 1957 a special type of abstract pen and ink drawings was added, which he called dynamic graphics or linear graphics . From the end of the 1950s, representational elements found their way into his painting. Since 1960 he has created numerous picture cycles, a. a. on the topics Towering Towers (1960), Apocalypse (1962) and Circle Meditations (1963). In 1963 he created a picture cycle Cosmic Parable with pen drawings in a circle format. These drawings were printed in a reduced scale in 1983 and presented as a cassette on the occasion of the Cosmic Parables exhibition in the City Museum Ratingen in 1984, together with in-depth texts. Further picture cycles were created on the topics of light dances (from 1967), 8 big brothers (from 1970), a central theme (from 1970), world formula (from 1974), cosmic icons (from 1977) and horizons (from 1981).

Family grave in the Rahlstedt cemetery

Retz-Schmidt's work reflects philosophical and scientific ideas, but also social developments and political events. Christian religion and mysticism influenced the work as well as ancient cultures, e.g. B. the Aztecs and Buddhists . His numerous study trips, among others, had a great influence on his work. a. to Norway , Greece , Israel , Austria , Hungary , Romania , France , Bulgaria , Tunisia , Italy and Switzerland .

Between the mid-70s and mid-80s, Retz-Schmidt lived and worked temporarily in Ratingen and exhibited mainly in Düsseldorf . Since 1985 he has been based in Hamburg again , where his works include: a. with the city and its port and began with the cycle world theater . As he got older, his work became more and more a visual expression of his cosmic and Christian religious ideas. A large number of his works are in private collections at home and abroad. In addition, a number of his works were acquired by the Hamburg cultural authority and the Hamburger Kunsthalle in the 1950s. Rolf Retz-Schmidt died on September 22, 2006 in Hamburg and was buried in the Rahlstedt cemetery .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Painting 1957 , Stadtpark-Wasserturm Hamburg (oil, tempera, graphics)
  • 1957: Painting - graphics , club house of the Deutsche BP , Hamburg (tempera, oil, linear graphics)
  • 1960: Painting by Rolf Retz-Schmidt , Clubhouse of the Deutsche BP , Hamburg (oil, oil pastels)
  • 1960: Oil paintings - oil pastels , Hamburger Kunsthalle (tower cycle)
  • 1962: Painting - Graphics , Centrale Roth 7, Hamburg (triptych Golgatha / apocalyptic signs / spherical sounds)
  • 1963: Participation in the graphic exhibition , Centrale Roth 7, Hamburg (linocuts)
  • 1965: Cosmic parable , Stadtpark-Wasserturm Hamburg (30 pen drawings in round format)
  • 1966: Circle meditations , Bauzentrum Hamburg (oil paintings, watercolors, pen drawings)
  • 1967/68: Transfigurative pen drawings 1967 , Galerie Latin, Hamburg
  • 1969: Participation in the exhibition 7 × Outside , Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1970: A central theme , Rahlstedt-Ost community center, Hamburg (oil pastels 1970 in serial form)
  • 1974: Participation in the exhibition 6 × Impulse , Kunsthaus Hamburg (oil, metal foil)
  • 1975/76: Participation in the 1st international exhibition Painting - Graphics - Sculpture . EP gallery, Düsseldorf (oil paintings)
  • 1978: Rolf Retz-Schmidt 1978 , EP gallery, Düsseldorf (oil paintings, oil pastels, watercolors, drawings; cosmic icons, II stage of the world formula, nuclear fusion fragments, Mediterranean impressions)
  • 1984: Cosmic parables , Ratingen City Museum
  • 1985: Cosmic Painting 1974 - 1984 , Ernst-Deutsch-Theater, Hamburg (Weltformel 1974–1984, Cosmic Icons 1978–1982)

literature

  • Deutscher Künstlerbund: 7th exhibition in Berlin . Exhibition catalog. Berlin, 1957.
  • Heydorn, Volker Detlef: Painter in Hamburg, Volume 2: 1945–1966 . Hamburg: Christians, 1974, p. 57. ( ISBN 3-7672-0277-8 )
  • Otten, Marie-Luise (Ed.): Art after 1945 in the Museum of the City of Ratingen. An inventory . Cologne: Wienand, 2011, p. 180. ( ISBN 978-3-86832-059-6 ).
  • Retz-Schmidt, Rolf: Cosmic Parables, Ratingen City Museum, January 29 - March 4, 1984 . Exhibition catalog. Ratingen, 1984.
  • Retz-Schmidt, Rolf: Oil paintings - oil pastels . Hamburger Kunsthalle. Exhibition catalog. Hamburg, 1961.
  • Retz-Schmidt, Rolf. In: Cultural Authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Hrsg.): Artists in Hamburg . Hamburg: Christians, 1982. ( ISBN 3-7672-0749-4 )
  • Retz-Schmidt, Rolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 51 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Retz-Schmidt, Rolf. In: Cultural Authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Hrsg.): Artists in Hamburg . Hamburg: Christians, 1982
  2. ↑ a b c A Madonna in an unfamiliar view . In: Deine Brücke, No. 8, 1968, p. 5
  3. ↑ a b c d e 7 × OUTSIDE. Three painters from Rahlstedt at an exhibition of the "old boys" in the Hamburger Kunsthaus . In: Deine Brücke, October 17, 1969
  4. ↑ a b c Hofmann, Will: Cycle "Cosmic Parable" . In: Harburger advertisements and news, September 4, 1965
  5. ↑ a b c Retz-Schmidt, Rolf: Cosmic Parabolas. City Museum Ratingen, January 29 - March 4, 1984 . Exhibition catalog. Ratingen, 1984
  6. ↑ Schoop, Uta: Arnold Fiedler (1900–1985): An artist monograph. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 2011, p. 435 ( PDF file , accessed April 16, 2020)
  7. ↑ Heydorn, Volker Detlef: Painter in Hamburg, Volume 2: 1945–1966 . Hamburg: Christians, 1974, p. 57
  8. ^ Luft, Werner: Painting in Northern Germany . In: The artwork 10, 1956/57, no. 3, Baden-Baden: Agis, pp. 6–8
  9. ↑ a b Frenzel, CO: Rolf Retz-Schmidt exhibits in the city park water tower . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, August 16, 1957, p. 6, ( PDF file of the newspaper page , accessed on April 16, 2020)
  10. ↑ a b Young artist exhibits . In: Die Welt, November 4, 1957
  11. ↑ a b c Frenzel, CO: Towards New Objectivity? . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, October 13, 1960, p. 15, ( PDF file of the newspaper page , accessed on April 16, 2020)
  12. ↑ Picture gallery in the backyard . In: Deine Brücke, No. 49, 1967
  13. ↑ Captured the triad of life . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung, January 31, 1984
  14. ↑ a b c Baumann, Heinz-Peter: Rolf Retz-Schmidt shows "Cosmic Parables" in Ratinger City Museum. Spirals and distant primal horizons . In: Rheinische Post, January 31, 1984
  15. ↑ Act of creation forced into a circle. Rolf Retz-Schmidt with ancient symbols in the museum . In: City panorama Ratingen, February 8, 1984
  16. ↑ a b Flemming, Hanns Theodor: Six different impulses . In: Die Welt, July 27, 1974, p. 27
  17. ↑ Primordial Landscape and Cosmos . In: Deine Brücke, No. 38, September 24, 1965
  18. ↑ a b Pictures from Baroque to Cubism . In: Ratinger Wochenblatt, November 4, 1982
  19. ↑ Pictures from the cosmos . In: Ratinger Wochenblatt, January 26, 1984
  20. ↑ Painting exhibition in Rahlstedt . In: Deine Brücke, August 31, 1962
  21. ↑ a b voluntary disclosure . In: Die Welt, November 11, 1969
  22. ↑ Impressions from three cultures . In: Deine Brücke, No. 31, August 2, 1968
  23. ↑ Modern picture exhibition in the library . In: The Rahlstedter Bridge, November 1958
  24. ^ The work of art, Volume 11, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1957, p. 56
  25. ^ Frenzel, CO: Symphony Orchestra of Color . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 12, 1960, p. 7, ( PDF file of the newspaper page , accessed on June 8, 2020)
  26. ^ Flemming, Hanns Theodor: Sphärische Klänge . In: Die Welt, November 1962
  27. ↑ Hamburg events . In: Die Welt, March 13, 1963, p. 10
  28. ^ Flemming, Hanns Theodor: Hamburg exhibitions . In: Die Welt, September 4, 1965
  29. ^ Frenzel, CO: Painting with Weltanschauung . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, July 29, 1966, p. 11, ( PDF file of the newspaper page , accessed on April 16, 2020)
  30. ^ Frenzel, CO: Drawings, watercolors and paintings . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, December 1, 1967, p. 37, ( PDF file of the newspaper page , accessed on April 16, 2020)
  31. ↑ Flemming, Hanns Theodor: World made of plush and pleureuses . In: Die Welt, December 7, 1967
  32. ↑ Hofmann, Will: Cultivated pen drawings . In: Harburg Ads and News, December 8, 1967
  33. ^ Seven outsiders in the Kunsthaus Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, 18./19. October 1969, p. 24, ( PDF file from the newspaper page , accessed on April 16, 2020)
  34. ^ Frenzel, CO: News in Hamburg galleries . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 11, 1970, p. 9, ( PDF file of the newspaper page , accessed on April 16, 2020)
  35. ^ Exhibition archive 1970 - 2013 . Kunsthaus Hamburg, accessed on April 16, 2020
  36. ↑ Mösch, Inge: Six impulses - six temperaments . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, 3./4. August 1974, ( PDF file from newspaper page , accessed April 16, 2020)
  37. ↑ Painting - graphics - sculpture . Exhibition catalog. EP gallery, Düsseldorf, 1975
personal data
SURNAME Retz-Schmidt, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Retz Schmidt, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian-German painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavanger
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2006
Place of death Hamburg