Ruth Eitle

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Self-portrait (around 1954)

Ruth Lydia Tabea Eitle , née Brillinger (born February 13, 1924 in Tübingen ; † May 2, 1989 ibid), was a German painter .

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Ruth Lydia Tabea Brillinger was born on February 13, 1924 in Tübingen. She was the youngest of six siblings and grew up in a family shaped by faith and pietism . Each of the children played an instrument - she herself the piano - and they often made music together. First through the personal blow of fate when her fiancé and his brothers died in the war, then through the confrontation with the complicity of the Germans in the Holocaust and the suffering of the Second World War, she turned away from the faith.

At the age of 20 she learned portrait painting from Hugo Lange and took lessons from Gert Biese , with whom she was also able to talk about art for the first time. From 1946 to 1950 she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Gerhard Gollwitzer , Hugo Peters and Manfred Henninger (with a one-year break, during which she looked after her future husband Hans-Dieter Eitle, who was sick with TBC , and also got sick from it) . In 1951, at the age of 27, she traveled to Paris for three months with academy friends Hal Busse and Irmgard Pfisterer . For the first time a world opened up to her, far from the Pietistic narrowness. For the first time she got to know great art in the original. Regular study trips to Paris followed.

In 1953 she married Hans-Dieter Eitle, with whom she later had three children. She set up a studio in a small basement room. In the early pictures created there, the difficult role for women in the art of combining motherhood and being an artist becomes clear. Pictures with titles such as Loneliness , Martyrdom , The Carrying of the Cross reflect the conflict in their dark, frugal choice of colors. In 1959 she was assistant director on the film Gino by Ottomar Domnick .

From 1961 to 1964 she designed stage sets for the Zimmertheater Tübingen , from 1964 she helped to build the gallery in the Zimmertheater, which was also widely recognized and directed it from 1965 to 1972. More colorful, large-format oil paintings were created, shaped by the world of the theater and the family, by From 1965 to 1968 also a cycle of lead and colored pencil drawings, entitled Masse Mensch , in which she dealt with social constraints and norms in a humorous and critical manner.

Later, in the meantime, the family had moved into the prestigious new house, which was obligatory for the architect's husband, and in the spacious studio with skylights in the attic, colorful, large-scale paintings were created that reflect Pop Art in their form . The reverse glass material pictures, which were also created during this period, are more playful, with bright colors. The suicide of the director Salvator Poddinees led to a great personal crisis and to the withdrawal from the Tübingen theater scene.

Artistically she turned to literary subjects. In 1973 she learned the technique of lithography from Erich Mönch , which she soon tested and implemented in all its abundance of possibilities. Her subjects - Hasidic stories, Russian fairy tales or poems by Christian Morgenstern - are less illustrations than interpretations. In 1976 she took etching courses with Natascha Mann and found her own means of expression in this technique. Cycles were created, including on Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena and Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant , Odysseus , Swabian sagas and sagas by contemporary authors such as Helmut Arntzen . Two volumes of poetry with illustrations by Ruth Eitles were published: La Mer on poems by the French author Eugène Guillevic in the translation by Monika Fahrenbach and Fahrenbach but never arriving on poems by the Austrian poet Irmgard B. Perfahl, who was living in Tübingen at the time .

Ruth Eitle was a member of the Künstlerbund Tübingen until her death . For seven years she worked with mentally handicapped people on the etching press at the Stiefelhof artists' center in Tübingen . In 1978 she was a lecturer in etching at the drawing institute at the University of Tübingen . From the friendly relationship with Karola Bloch , wife of the philosopher Ernst Bloch , a picture cycle of four pictures arose after a joint trip, which hung for many years in the meeting room of the Tübingen town hall and is now owned by the city of Tübingen.

Carrying the cross by Ruth Eitle

After many years she sought access to religious subjects again. At the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s, numerous typefaces for psalms in the Bible were created. The Tübingen cantor Gerhard Steiff dedicated a composition to Salomon's Song of Songs in 1980. Ruth Eitle designed a triptych for the text and music, which can still be seen in the organ loft of the Tübingen collegiate church . Inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen , which she heard in the collegiate church, played by the Tübingen organist Horst Allgaier, she created pictures with gold and silver as carriers of color and light, which can still be seen in the collegiate church today.

Since 1983 she has often painted in watercolors in the great outdoors. Impressions of the landscape were created from the surroundings of Tübingen, from Brittany, Lake Constance and the Black Forest. In 1988, a year before her death, she rented a room in a skyscraper above Tübingen and painted large-format watercolors with the title “The sky over Tübingen”. From April 23 to May 28, 1989 Ruth Eitle's work filled the Kunsthalle Tübingen in the exhibition “Ruth Eitle Retrospective”. Ruth Eitle died on May 2, 1989 shortly after the opening of this exhibition in Tübingen.

Until 1989 she had numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Ruth Eitle was able to sell many of her pictures throughout her life. Public buyers included the regional council of Baden-Württemberg , the State Gallery of Stuttgart , the City of Tübingen, the Kunsthalle Tübingen and the Gallery of the City of Stuttgart . She left behind an extensive body of work: around 180 partly large-format oil and tempera pictures, 500 drawings , 1400 watercolors, 1300 etchings , 400 lithographs, 50 reverse glass pictures and material pictures .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Irmgard B. Perfahl: Drive but never arrive. With 5 etchings by Ruth Eitle. Windhueter Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-921788-01-3 .
  • Ulrika Evers: German women artists of the 20th century. Ludwig-Schultheis Verlag, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-920855-01-9 . P. 80 ff.
  • Eugène Guillevic: La Mer. (Translation Monika Fahrenbach, graphic Ruth Eitle) bankruptcy book publisher Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-88769-304-3 .
  • Ruth Eitle: Retrospective. Painting and graphics. Gulde-Verlag, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-924123-13-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Vain, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eitle, Ruth Lydia Tabea (full name); Brillinger, Ruth Lydia Tabea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1989
Place of death Tübingen