Rudolf Gosekuhl

Rudolf Gosekuhl (* 1898 in Cologne , † 1951 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German portrait , landscape and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

From 1916 to 1921 Gosekuhl studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , then at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . He was friends with the painter Louis Ziercke , whose sister he married. Gosekuhl settled in his hometown of Cologne, where he attracted attention in April 1933 in the cathedral gallery with a portrait of Adolf Hitler , one of whose favorite artists he was. In the same year he created a portrait of the economist Eugen Schmalenbach . In October 1933 he was represented in the exhibition "The Cologne Cityscape" organized by the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (KfdK). In 1934 he took part in the “Mother and Child” competition advertised by the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Rheinische Blätter of KfdK, the results of which were presented in an atrium exhibition in the Cologne Museum of Arts and Crafts . In 1935 he exhibited in the first "Gauausstellung" of the Gaus Köln-Aachen . In a work exhibition at Stollwerck , which was included in the “Gau culture week” of 1938, he was also represented alongside other painters. From 1943 Gosekuhl lived in Bad Godesberg.

literature

Gosekuhl, Rudolf . In: General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . Volume 4: Gaci-Hodson . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-23914-9 , p. 292.
Rudolf Gosekuhl . In: Das Elegante Köln , No. 2, June 1929, p. 4 f.
The painter Rudolf Gosekuhl . In: Stadt-Anzeiger , issue No. 348, July 13, 1930.

Web links

Rudolf Gosekuhl , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Gosekuhl, Rudolf (self-portrait) , data sheet in the portal portraits.schumann-portal.de ( Stadtmuseum Bonn )

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ Louis Ziercke (1887–1945) , website in the portal treffpunkt-kunst.net , accessed on December 7, 2019
^ Henry Picker : Hitler's table talks in the Führer Headquarters 1941-1942 . Athenäum, Bonn 1951 (fully revised and expanded new edition with previously unknown personal testimonies from Adolf Hitler, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00425-3 Google Books )
↑ Erich Potthoff , Günter Sieben : Eugen Schmalenbach. The man - his work - the effect . Schäffer, 1984, pp. 154, 274
↑ Ute Haug: The Cologne Art Association in National Socialism. Structure and development of an art institution in the cultural-political landscape of the 'Third Reich' . Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, 1998, pp. 152, 191, 195 (footnote 1678), 222 (footnote 1916), 230, 288, 307 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Gosekuhl, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, landscape and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	1951
Place of death	bad Godesberg

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[2] Louis Ziercke (1887–1945) , website in the portal treffpunkt-kunst.net , accessed on December 7, 2019

[3] Henry Picker : Hitler's table talks in the Führer Headquarters 1941-1942 . Athenäum, Bonn 1951 (fully revised and expanded new edition with previously unknown personal testimonies from Adolf Hitler, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00425-3 Google Books )

[4] Erich Potthoff , Günter Sieben : Eugen Schmalenbach. The man - his work - the effect . Schäffer, 1984, pp. 154, 274

[5] Ute Haug: The Cologne Art Association in National Socialism. Structure and development of an art institution in the cultural-political landscape of the 'Third Reich' . Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, 1998, pp. 152, 191, 195 (footnote 1678), 222 (footnote 1916), 230, 288, 307 ( digitized version )