Rudolf Weber (painter, 1877)

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Rudolf Weber (born April 7, 1877 in Hanover , † June 22, 1952 in Peine ) was a German painter whose late work is assigned to German natural lyricism .

life and work

At the age of 14, Rudolf Weber began his training at the School of Applied Arts in Hanover, supported by its director Karl Lachner (1851-1926) and the Hanover city director Heinrich Tramm . In 1895 Weber received a grant of 800 marks from the Minister of Commerce and Industry in order to be able to continue attending the school, and attended the “Académie Julienne” in Paris, thanks to a grant from the City of Hanover .

Even before his further studies, Rudolf Weber exhibited for the first time at the Kunstverein Hannover in 1898 , where he had also been a member of the jury several times from then until 1939 .

In the following two years, 1898/99, Weber studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then went on a study trip to Italy in 1899 - again with a scholarship from the “Hanover City School of Crafts and Applied Arts” .

In 1902 Rudolf Weber received a gold medal "for a portrait of a woman" at the "International Art Exhibition in Munich" .

In 1905 Weber joined the Hanover Art Association . A few years later he married Käthe Langner in 1909 . In the same year he created the oil painting School Festival in the Tiergarten , he was awarded the Golden Medal in Munich .

In 1911 Weber, who had been elected to the board of the German Art Cooperative , was awarded the Grand Prix in Paris.

After Weber - in the middle of the Second World War - went to Peine for his first portrait commission for the Schaffeld family (for the "Portrait of Margarete") in 1943, both Weber's studio and apartment in Hanover were destroyed during the air raids on Hanover . Thereupon he finally moved to Peine, where he was initially staying "in the Schaffeld house at Woltorfer Str. 26" until 1945. In the later phase of the painter, from 1945 onwards, he created further portraits and more than 600 watercolors , stylistically attributed to German “natural lyricism”.

In 1952, the year of his death, a commemorative exhibition was held at the Kunstverein Hannover.

Awards

  • 1909: Golden Medal in Munich
  • 1911: Grand Prix in Paris

Estate and other exhibitions

It was not until 1975 that Rudolf Weber's estate was rediscovered in an attic in Peine: Around 800 Weber's works then came into the possession of the Peine District Home Association and are kept - with a complete inventory - in the Peine District Museum. In addition to the numerous exhibitions during the artist's lifetime, including several in the autumn exhibition of Hanoverian Artists , several posthumous art exhibitions were organized both in Peine and in Hanover with works by the painter.

Well-known works (selection)

  • 1903: School festival in the zoo , oil painting

literature

  • Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon , 1996, p. 641
  • Ulrika Evers, Claudia Jäger: The portrait collection in the district museum Peine - graphics and paintings, catalog on the occasion of the copper engraving exhibition in the district museum from 7.6. - 6.9.1998, expanded to include the oil paintings , in the series of publications of the district museum Peine , No. 19, Peine: district museum, 2000, ISBN 3-930462-09-5
  • Hugo Thielen : WEBER, (1) Rudolf. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 377.
  • Hugo Thielen: Weber, (1) Rudolf. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 659.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Hugo Thielen: WEBER ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Bodo Lachner (great-great-grandson of Ignaz Lachner): Lachner, Ignaz - Concertino F major for oboe and orchestra on befocoshop.de ( befoco music ); last accessed on October 9, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i N.N .: Rudolf Weber (see web links)
  4. ↑ Note: The spelling of the alleged Académie Julienne, which is deliberately put in quotation marks here (in Wikipedia) is possibly a misspelling (also in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon ) and most likely refers to the masculine spelling of the name Julian ; this academy is also cross-referenced here despite the wrong spelling
  5. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the Peine District Museum names the year "1909"
  6. ^ Digitized catalog International Art Exhibition 1902 "Seccession" by the Central Institute for Art History
  7. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the Peine District Museum names the " sculptor Kate Langner" on the website.
  8. ↑ a b c Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Madsack, 1966, p. 96f., 106
  9. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : School festival in the zoo. Oil painting by Rudolf Weber. 1903 , in ders. (Ed.): Hanover Archive , Sheet B 69
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter who is assigned to German natural lyricism
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1952
Place of death Torment