Rudolf Yelin the Elder
Rudolf Yelin the Elder (born August 14, 1864 in Reutlingen , † December 28, 1940 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter who became particularly important as a glass painter in the design of churches.
Life
He was the son of the Reutlingen guano manufacturer Rudolph Yelin († 1886) and his wife Elise Yelin born. Beer man. The parents, both ministerial children, chose a theological career for the son. Yelin first attended the seminars in Schöntal Monastery (1878) and Bad Urach (1880), and then the Tübinger Stift , where he was taught theology. He became a member of AMV Stochdorphia Tübingen . Before he was twenty years old, he turned away from the theological career and went to Munich , where he devoted himself to painting, which had interested him since his early youth. In Munich, Yelin was initially a student of Heinz Heim . From there he moved on to Stuttgart in the spring of 1888, where he received his first commissioned work, including some book illustrations and the equipment for the pulpit of the chapel of the Stuttgart Deaconess Foundation, but Friedrich von Keller's lessons seemed to him to be stagnant swamp water , so that it did so in autumn In 1888 he returned to Munich and took further lessons with Paul Nauen , at the Munich Art Academy and in Heinrich Knirr's private class .
In 1890 he received his first major order for wall paintings in the cemetery chapel built by Heinrich Dolmetsch in Reutlingen . In the summer of 1890 Yelin turned to Frankfurt am Main , where he attended further classes at the Städel Art Institute with Frank Kirchbach . The young artist was influenced by his classmates Wilhelm Altheim and Fritz Boehle, or the monumental style of the church painter Eduard Jakob von Steinle, far more than the impressionism that was emerging at the time and dominating teaching .
Moved by the desire for economic independence, Yelin applied to a publishing company in Lahr as an illustrator. There he received an acceptance, but at the same time, in the summer of 1892, he also received the order to paint the Stuttgart collegiate church , the successful execution of which shaped Yelin's further life. In 1894 he rented a studio below Eugensplatz in Stuttgart. It was at this time that he first came into contact with glass painting when he was asked to complete the glass windows that the late Pfannenschmidt had begun for the garrison church in Stuttgart. After completing the work in the Stuttgart collegiate church and executing two monumental canvas paintings for the Tuttlingen city church , Yelin received commissions from 1895, primarily for glass paintings, all over Germany. He worked with numerous glass painting workshops, but especially with that of Valentin Saile in Stuttgart. In addition, he produced numerous illustrations for the Stuttgart publishing house JF Steinkopf and also worked for many years as an art teacher, in particular for nude painting . In 1899 Yelin was able to build his own house with two studios on the outskirts of Stuttgart. In addition to commissioned work, small-format paintings were also created there, including numerous depictions of landscapes.
During the First World War , Yelin was hired as an art teacher at Stuttgart grammar schools for three years. After the end of the war, the inflationary period resulted in a further lack of orders and a collapse of the art market. After what turned out to be a disastrous art exhibition at Rosenstein Castle in the fall of 1923 - high inflation caused the sales prices achieved to drop to zero within a few days - Yelin withdrew from the art market entirely. Due to a nervous phlebitis , however, he was no longer able to carry out large-format wall paintings from 1926, so that his late work was limited to small-scale oil paintings before an eye ailment brought his creative power to a complete standstill in the 1930s.
Rudolf Yelin was married from 1893 and was the father of the sculptor Ernst Yelin (1900–1991) and the glass painter Rudolf Yelin the Younger (1902–1991) who followed in his footsteps .
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In the 15 years or so between his establishment as an independent artist and the outbreak of World War I, he created around 100 mostly large-format designs for glass paintings, most of which were made for churches, including the St. John's Church , Memorial Church and Garrison Church in Stuttgart, the Luther Church in Bad Cannstatt , the Martin Luther Church in Trossingen , the Protestant Church in Brettheim and the vestibule windows of Reutlingen's Marienkirche . He was considered a reformer of religious glass painting, as he created new types of image and color compositions. His wall paintings, among others in the churches in Gablenberg and Ostheim as well as in the town church of Bad Cannstatt, were praised for their composition and color.
His designs for church windows show clear traits of Art Nouveau not least because the execution of leaded glass windows technically complies with the typical linearity of Art Nouveau. Yelin often had floral accessories designed by workshop employees. His landscape studies and portraits, on the other hand, are more influenced by the realism of the Munich School , as it was shaped by Wilhelm Leibl and Carl von Piloty during Yelin's academic years . A few of his small oil paintings also show influences from impressionism.
Girl under Lilac Bush, 1891
"Studio light", around 1910
Bathers on the North Sea beach, 1910
literature
- Bodo Cichy: Rudolf Yelin 1864-1940. His time, his life, his work. Stuttgart 1987.
- HO Roecker: The Yelin family of artists. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1939. Verlag JF Steinkopf , Stuttgart 1939.
- Rudolf Yelin : Vita Rudolf Yelin 1864–1940. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series , Volume 18 (1979), pages 117-137.
- Rudolf Yelin: Memories of the grandparents' house in Reutlingen. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series , Volume 22 (1983), pages 11-22.
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hannover 1937, p. 219.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yelin, Rudolf the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reutlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1940 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |