Rudolf Wild-Idar

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Rudolf Wild-Idar (actually Rudolf Wild , born May 3, 1871 in Idar , † June 3, 1960 in Idar-Oberstein ) was a German painter .

Life

Wild, who still had 9 siblings, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich in 1886 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1887 to 1890 under Professor Karl Raupp and Professor Ludwig von Löfftz and received top grades and honorable mentions in all semesters. On April 14, 1891, a scholarship was approved by Wilhelm Trübner and he stayed in Paris from 1891 to 1893 as a scholarship holder . He then lived again in Idar-Oberstein until 1902, where he mainly dealt with portrait painting , copperplate engraving , sculpture , jewelry designs and charcoal and pencil drawings . Here he also began painting landscapes .

From 1902 to 1909 he lived in Munich and Berlin for study purposes and made contact with the circle around Friedrich Naumann , Theodor Heuss and Ernst Jäckh . As a war volunteer he took part in the First World War until the end . Wild-Idar then took part in various art exhibitions in Dresden , Berlin, Bad Kreuznach and Luxembourg . He chose the name affix Idar as a reminiscence of his hometown.

Posthumously

Rudolf Wild as a bronze statue on the Maler-Wild-Platz in Idar.

Since his death in 1960, several commemorative exhibitions have taken place in memory of the painter, such as a commemorative exhibition for the painter's 100th birthday in 1971. In June 1989, a bronze statue of the painter by the Mainz sculptor Reinhold Petermann was unveiled in the Idar district of Idar-Oberstein. The Maler-Wild-Platz was inaugurated there. Since 2009, the entire work of the painter has been recorded in a digital file for the Idar-Oberstein city archive, up to now over 1200 works.

literature

  • Rudolf Wild-Idar, 1970, large format with 35 illustrations, 5 of them in color, with contributions by Max Rupp and Otto Conradt , Landesmuseum Birkenfeld , Verein für Heimatkunde.
  • Rudolf Wild-Idar, 2011, illustrated book, documentation about his work, his life a. its meaning, 335 pages, publisher and reference source: Stadtarchiv 55743 Idar-Oberstein.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masters in Landscapes and Portraits. on: rhein-zeitung.de , July 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ Digital archive planned for Rudolf Wild-Idar. on: idar-oberstein.de , March 2, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Wild-Idar, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wild, Rudolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Idar-Oberstein
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1960
Place of death Idar-Oberstein