Rudolf Löw (painter)
Rudolf Löw (born June 2, 1878 in Basel ; † December 16, 1948 there ) was a Swiss painter and writer .
Life
Löw completed his Matura at the Humanist Gymnasium and studied German and art history at the University of Basel , before going to the Knirr School in Munich in 1898 . Further autodidactic training in Paris and back in Basel followed.
At the beginning of his career, Löw developed his style from impressionism to symbolism , with Ferdinand Hodler being an important influence. Löw initially painted figure pictures and portraits, later mainly landscapes and seascapes inspired by his travels . In addition to painting, he also repeatedly worked as an eraser . In 1910 he published his first literary work with the Rascher Verlag with the Breton Diary , followed in 1914 by the Diary of Lake Siljan . From June 3 to 24, 1928 , an exhibition in the Kunsthalle Basel was dedicated to him, together with Wilfried Buchmann and Fred Stauffer . In the same year he published the autobiographical book Mein Weg zur Kunst . From 1930 Löw devoted himself to arts and crafts, including wall paintings in the Basel SBB train station .
Between 1938 and 1943 he published the three-part artist novel Houses over the Rhine ( Dieter Basilius Deifel , Marie Louise Burckhardt , Achilles Kern ), the first part of which received a lot of attention; In 1988 this was reissued.
literature
- Christof Wamister: A Basel “Doctor Faustus”? Rudolf Löw and his novel "Dieter Basilius Deifel" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 2./3. March 1983, p. 53.
- Loew, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 325 .
Web links
- Loew, Rudolf. In: Sikart
- Rudolf Löw on artnet
- Rudolf Löw at mural.ch
- Rudolf Löw at unibas.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilfried Buchmann, Rudolf Löw, Fred Stauffer: June exhibition 1928: June 3 to 24. Wilfried Buchmann, Rudolf Löw, Fred Stauffer . Kunsthalle, Basel 1928, OCLC 603280546 .
- ↑ Rudolf Löw: My way to art . In: At the domestic stove . 31st year, no. 17 . Müller, Werder & Co, Zurich June 1, 1928, p. 397–402 ( e-periodica.ch - with images of the works Badende Mädchen , Aufgang zur Volla , The Aare near Muri , The White Cloud and a portrait study).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loew, Rudolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1878 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1948 |
Place of death | Basel |