Ruth Eckstein

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Ruth Eckstein (born January 10, 1920 in Wetter (Ruhr) , † August 13, 1997 in Hagen ) was a German painter .

Life

Ruth Eckstein

Ruth Eckstein was born as the daughter of the city architect Alfred Eckstein and his wife Meta. She attended elementary school and the Lyceum in Hagen until 1936. After her father was dismissed from his service for political reasons in 1936, the family moved to Stuttgart-Laudenbach in 1938. Between 1941 and 1945 Ruth Eckstein did forced labor in an organ factory in Weikersheim . She was interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945 and then returned to Laudenbach. From 1947 to 1950 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Fritz Steisslinger , Hermann Sohn and Willi Baumeister . In 1950 the family returned to Hagen.

In 1953/1954 Eckstein joined the " Ring Bergischer Künstler " in Wuppertal and became a member of the " Hagenring " in Hagen, which she stayed for over 40 years. Since 1953 she had solo exhibitions as well as participations in exhibitions at home and abroad. Since 1961 she lived in Eppenhausen and ran a studio there.

Act

Ruth Eckstein painted depicting, abstract, geometrically abstracting, in oil, watercolor and charcoal, on canvas, paper, wood, cardboard and other surfaces over a long period of creativity.

The focus of artistic creation was the 'abstract' works, brightly colored in the 50s and 60s and a little more subdued than collages, in which accidental shredded paper or small tears from magazines were often used. In the years that followed, figural compositions were increasingly found. In addition to lithographs and serigraphs, she also made a number of sculptures in the studio of her artist friend Arthur Schulze-Engel.

An abundance of watercolors reflect the impressions of many journeys, portraits the interest in their fellow men.

Encounters with artists such as Emil Schumacher , Ernst Meister , Lis Goebel and Eva Niestrath were inspiring for their work, without any direct influences being discernible. The work of Adolf Hölzel and Ida Kerkovius was also the basis for new impulses for free design. "In keeping with Hölzel's 'absolute art', Eckstein has been concentrating on the elementary means of painting - color and form - since the seventies and gradually found her own, unmistakable signature."

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1955: Osthaus Museum Hagen
  • 1956: Galerie Palette Röderhaus Wuppertal
  • 1957: Märkisches Museum , Witten
  • 1962: Bergisches Studio Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal
  • 1964: Pianohaus Ibach Wuppertal
  • 1967: National Museum Zadar, Zadar (Yugoslavia)
  • 1969: Galerie Hagenring Hagen
  • 1973: Kunstverein Hattingen, Old Town Hall, Hattingen
  • 1975: Torhaus Rombergpark Dortmund
  • 1978: Galerie Palette, Röderhaus Wuppertal
  • 1979: Catholic Academy Schwerte
  • 1983: Galerie Petit, Hagen
  • 1985: Galerie 29 Hagen, Korbach community center
  • 1987: Hofgeismar Art Circle, Altena City Gallery
  • 1990: 70 years of Ruth Eckstein Galerie Hagenring Hagen
  • 1991: Synagogue Hohenlimburg Hagen, Gerling Group Hagen
  • 1995: Galerie Michael Schlieper Hagen, Catholic Academy Schwerte
  • 1996: In honor of Ruth Eckstein, Gut Schede Wetter
  • 1997: Memorial exhibition Ruth Eckstein, Galerie Hagenring Hagen
  • 2013: Hagen Window in the Osthaus Museum , Hagen

Group exhibitions

1955-1959
  • Ring visual artist, Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
  • Association of Düsseldorf artists, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • Competition "Choir window of the Elisabeth Church" Marburg
  • Visual artists from Rhineland and Westphalia, Kunstpalast Ehrendorf Düsseldorf
  • Westphalian artist, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus Soest.
1960-1969
  • Annual exhibition of Bergischer Kunst, Wuppertal Municipal Museum
  • Ring Bergischer Künstler, Galerie Palette Röderhaus Wuppertal
  • International Exhibition of Graphics, Svea Stockholm Gallery
  • Genootschap Kunstliefde, Utrecht
  • Westphalian artists, Münster State Museum
  • Exhibition by the Federal GEDOK , Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • Hagen artist, Osthaus Museum, Hagen
  • Bergische Kunstausstellung, German Blade Museum Solingen
  • Baumeister pupil exhibition, Werkschule Wuppertal.
1970-1979
  • Kunstverein Hattingen, Old Town Hall, Hattingen
  • 50 years of Hagenring , Osthaus Museum, Hagen
  • Hand drawings, Galerie Börner, Hagen
  • Willi Baumeister student exhibition, Mauth Gallery, Stuttgart
  • Ring Bergischer Künstler, Rheda-Wiedenbrück
  • Art exhibition Bonn
1980-1989
  • Altena City Gallery
  • Siegburg Town Hall
  • Schollbrockhaus Herne
  • Hofgeismar Art Circle
  • Bergische Künstler, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest
  • State representation NRW Bonn
  • House of handicrafts, Erkelenz
  • Group of Bergischer Künstler, Buxtehude
since 1990
  • Annual exhibition, Osthaus Museum Hagen
  • City gallery Castrop-Rauxel
  • Michael Schlieper Gallery, Hagen
  • Black and white, Münsterland Museum Lüdinghausen
  • Master builder student, Kappeln Art Association
  • Figure and figuration , Kath. Akademie Schwerte, Gut Schede, Wetter

literature

Illustrated books, catalogs:

  • Ruth Eckstein. Pictures from thirty years. 1949 to 1979. Exhibition at the Catholic Academy Schwerte, August 31 to October 14, 1979. Catholic Academy, Schwerte 1979. (45 pages, XXI sheet; therein Hermann Moog: Person und Werk Ruth Ecksteins , pp. 11-18; Inge Habig : The pictures by Ruth Eckstein , pp. 19–29).
  • Bernd Brandes-Druba (Ed.): Ruth Eckstein. Works 1948–1994. Schleswiger Druck- und Verlagshaus, Schleswig 1995, ISBN 3-88242-115-0 .
  • Ruth Eckstein. Metamorphosis of the figurative. Works from 1949–1993. Neuer Folkwang-Verlag, Hagen 1998, ISBN 3-926242-30-2 (exhibition catalog Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen 1998, 55 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Eckstein's personal notes
  2. ↑ Andrea Sinzel: In: Ruth Eckstein, Metamorphose des Figürlichen. New Folkwang-Verlag, Hagen 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Eckstein, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Weather (Ruhr)
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1997
Place of death Hagen