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 .

Cover design by Carl Spitteler : Imago (1906)

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

Commons : Rudolf Löw - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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
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

[1] Wilfried Buchmann, Rudolf Löw, Fred Stauffer: June exhibition 1928: June 3 to 24. Wilfried Buchmann, Rudolf Löw, Fred Stauffer . Kunsthalle, Basel 1928, OCLC 603280546 .

[2] 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).