Ruth Buchholz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ruth Buchholz (born July 21, 1911 in Hamburg ; † October 22, 2002 ibid), née Maetzel, was a German painter .

life and work

Ruth Maetzel was born in 1911 as the eldest of four children of the artist couple Emil Maetzel and Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen . After graduating from high school in 1931, she began studying interior design at the Hamburg State Art School . In 1933 she married the lawyer and later Hamburg attorney general Ernst Buchholz . The couple had 3 children: Wolff Buchholz (* 1935; † November 2010), Jan Buchholz (* 1938) and Doris von Zitzewitz (* 1944).

Ruth Buchholz had a keen sense for the effects of colors. After starting oil painting, she soon decided to use pastel chalks. From the drawing technique of chalk she developed a chalk painting. For many decades she worked resolutely on a subject from which she was able to gain many aspects with increasing perfection - the still life. If the early pictures still show conventional compositions, the later works continuously concentrate on the individual motif.

  • Blue still life , 1957

  • Oranges, glass and lemon squeezer , 1958

  • Pomegranates , 1973

  • Fennel forest , 1973

  • Hutsul jugs in blue , 1988

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1959: Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
  • 1979: GEDOK , Hamburg
  • 1983: Museum Rade
  • 1992: Herold Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2005: Elbdörfer Galerie, Hamburg

Participation in exhibitions

literature

  • Maike Bruhns: Ruth Buchholz. Pastels . Exhibition catalog Galerie Herold, Hamburg September 1992.
  • Ernst Rump, Maike Bruhns, Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann; The new rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 68.

Web links

Commons : Ruth Buchholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mentioned in: Das Schöne Heim Vol. 57, 1958, p.?: Pastels by Ruth Buchholz and oil paintings and watercolors by Wolff Buchholz were on view in the Commeter Gallery.
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maetzel, Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2002
Place of death Hamburg