Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff

Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff (* 28. September 1900 in Rostock , † 12. June 1971 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) was a German painter of Expressionism .

He first studied painting with Max Thedy in Hamburg, Franz Bunke in Weimar and Oskar Kokoschka in Dresden. From 1929 to 1936 he was chairman of the Rostock Artists Association . He stood against the National Socialist art movement. His pictures were removed from the museum in Rostock as degenerate. After the Soviet captivity ( Auschwitz ) he set up a studio in the artists' colony Ahrenshoop , where he also gave painting lessons. He was a friend of the writer Ehm Welk .

Schmidt-Dethloff had exhibitions with Schultze-Jasmer, Thuro Balzers, Hertha von Guttenberg , Fritz Koch-Gotha, Käthe Miethe, Rudolf Leonhard, Hans Oberländer, Hedwig Holtz-Sommer, Martha Voß, G. Kaulbach, Alfred Particle (Rostock, Schwerin, Berlin, Ahrenshoop). After his escape from the GDR in 1953, he lived in West Berlin, Cuxhaven, Heidelberg, Freiburg and from 1958 until his death in Lindau.

Schmidt-Dethloff was a master of watercolor art and landscape painting . All works were created with the easel in the landscape.

The estate is administered in Lindau by Andreas and Martina von Hollen. The majority of the estate has been in the possession of the municipal museum Cavazzen in Lindau since 2017.

literature

Andreas von Hollen, Martina von Hollen: Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff - love of the landscape. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-8635-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Karsten Schröder: History of the City of Rostock.
↑ Ahrenshooper artist lexicon .

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt-Dethloff, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1971
Place of death	Lindau (Lake Constance)

[1] Karsten Schröder: History of the City of Rostock.

[2] Ahrenshooper artist lexicon .