Rudolf Schuster (painter)

Summer day at the lake

Rudolf Schuster also Heinrich Rudolf Schuster (born September 1, 1848 in Markneukirchen , Kingdom of Saxony ; † June 30, 1902 there ) was a German painter and illustrator of the 19th century.

Life

Schuster was a student at the Dresden Art Academy from 1863 to 1865 and then worked in Ludwig Richter’s studio from 1867 until his blindness in 1873 . In 1874 he asked him to travel to Italy to study . However, Schuster spent the year 1874 in Munich, where he was captivated by the style of the painters Eduard Schleich the Elder and Adolf Heinrich Lier . In 1875 and 1876 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and did not go to Rome until 1879 . Before that, he had already made the German low mountain ranges such as the Giant Mountains , the Eifel , the Ore Mountains and the Alps the subjects of his landscape paintings. In Rome, the city itself was not so much noticed as the light and the expanse of the Campagna Romana and the views of the Sabine Mountains . He got to know the ideal landscape through the pictures of the German painters in Rome Edmund Kanoldt , Heinrich Franz-Dreber and Friedrich Prellers the Younger . Further study trips to Italy followed.

In the future, Schuster turned again to the landscapes of Germany and the Alps and explored them as an enthusiastic hiker from his homes in Berlin , Dresden , Weimar and Meran over the next 15 years . In his paintings from this time the landscape dominates, humans are only included in exceptional cases. The painter returned to his hometown in 1900, where he died two years later.

Works

The Markneukirchen Musical Instrument Museum in Markneukirchen has 19 oil paintings by Schuster, including:
- March morning in the Giant Mountains , 1897.
- Moonlit night in the Eifel .
- Place in Franconia
- Forest chapel
- Alpine landscape in Italy
- Land desert , 1896
- Pond at the Hirschmühle
- Clouds in the mountains
- stroller
- Monk in the boat
- Rock landscape , 1895
- Small people
- Forest path with rocks and fir trees
- The picture dealer
- Forest image

which are exhibited in the Schuster-Diele in Paulus-Schlössl.

The first 9 works were purchased by the Dresden Art Association in 1943 on the advice of the pharmacist Karl Voigt and the painter's niece, Sophie Schuster. A further 8 pictures were added to the collection a short time later.

Furthermore, there is Rudolf Schuster's diary with travel records, 2 books with drawings and a loose collection of letters and sketches in the museum collection. These are not publicly accessible.

Honors

In Markneukirchen a street is named after Rudolf Schuster.

literature

Eberhard Hempel : Schuster, Rudolf (Heinrich R.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 345-346 .

Web links

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

Biography at the Musikinstrumentenmuseum Markneukirchen
Biography at Galerie Saxonia, Munich

Individual evidence

^ Heidrun Eichler: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen . Ed .: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen, Saxon State Office for Museum Affairs. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-422-03077-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schuster, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schuster, Heinrich Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Markneukirchen , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	June 30, 1902
Place of death	Markneukirchen

[1] Heidrun Eichler: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen . Ed .: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen, Saxon State Office for Museum Affairs. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-422-03077-8 .