Rudolf Hesse

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Rudolf Hesse (born July 13, 1871 in Saarlouis , † May 22, 1944 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist. Hesse preferred oil painting and watercolors , for drawings he worked with pen, pencil, charcoal and chalk, in his graphic work he used etching , drypoint and vernis mou .

Life

Hesse was the son of the businessman Michael Hesse and initially received a commercial training. From 1896 to 1901 he studied with Nikolaus Gysis at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Together with painters, lawyers, officers and business people, Hesse belonged to the district of The Dutch and called itself "Van der Huye" in the usual variation of the name there. In 1901 and 1905 he studied in Paris. There, Hesse wrote in May 1901, the Louvre in order Le Christ au tombeau by Jusepe de Ribera to copy. In 1906 he returned to Munich. On August 8, 1908, Hesse married the painter Felicitas Tillessen (* April 16, 1886), and the marriage had three children, Lilly (* 1909), Werner (* 1910; † 1945; painter and illustrator) and Renate (* 1912 ). After moving to Koblenz in 1910, Hesse opened a painting school there. In 1912 the family moved back to Munich, where Hesse lived with his family until his death.

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Hesse had been a full member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative since 1916 and a member of the group "48" that belonged to it. During the Nazi era, initially valued for his portraits, his socially critical pictures aroused displeasure, the picture "Death as a chess player" was confiscated and destroyed, his caricatures banned.

In cooperation with the printer Heinrich Graf, graphic portfolios were created. Also, commercial graphics, bookplates , advertising designs are part of his work. Caricatures take up a large part of his work. Hesse works for magazines ( Fliegende Blätter , Die Jugend , Kladderadatsch , Simplicissimus , Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte) and book publishers, for which he creates illustrations. In 1903 the children's book "Fritz und Heinrich" by Georg Friedemann , illustrated by Hesse, was published, and in 1912 "Fun must be" (Piper & Co-Verlag Munich), an album with 80 pen drawings, which established his reputation as a draftsman and caricaturist. Some pictures are a bow to Van Dyck or Rembrandt , like in a picture of the crucifixion, in which light shines around the crucified, surrounded by darkness, but they are own creations. Genre scenes are reminiscent of Dutch genre painting.

Memorial plaque for Hesse in his hometown Saarlouis

In his works, Hesse concentrated on people, creating portraits, genre scenes, rococo scenes, religious images (crucifixion, Last Supper, processions) and time-critical representations as well as still lifes .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1905: Art Association Augsburg (1905)
  • 1916: Glass Palace Munich
  • 1917: Art Association Munich
  • 1922: Galerie Heinemann Munich
  • 1928: Silesian Museum Gleiwitz
  • 1980 and 1988: Saarlouis Municipal Museum
  • 2009 Museum Haus Ludwig for art exhibitions in Saarlouis
  • 2010 Art Museum Bayreuth, exhibition in the New Town Hall under the motto "Fun must be"

Group exhibitions

  • 1912: Art Association Munich
  • 1913: Kunsthalle Leipzig
  • 1916 and 1918: Munich artists' cooperative in the Glaspalast Munich
  • 1979: Munich City Museum

Works in public collections

Works by Rudolf Hesse are exhibited in Bautzen in the Städtisches Museum, in the Berlin Nationalgalerie , in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe , in Ludwigshafen in the Wilhelm Hack Museum and in Munich in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung , in the Lenbachhaus and in the Stadtmuseum. Further pictures can be found in the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken, in the Saarlouis Municipal Museum and in the Museum at the Cathedral in Würzburg.

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personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1944
Place of death Munich