Ruth Meier
Ruth Meier (born April 29, 1888 in Leisnig ; † January 28, 1965 in Radebeul ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
life and work
Ruth Meier studied from 1908 to 1913 at the Grand Ducal Art School in Karlsruhe, among others with Walter Conz and at the painting school in Düsseldorf with Lothar von Kunowski , in 1913 she deepened her education by spending a stay in Paris with Maurice Denis .
From 1914 she lived and worked constantly in Dresden , near the main train station. She was influenced by The Bridge and the Storm , from the mid-1920s she turned to woodblock prints with animal and landscape motifs .
In the air raids on Dresden she lost all of her work. She moved to Radebeul - Niederlößnitz on Obere Bergstrasse , where she lived until her death. She is buried with her mother in the Radebeul-West cemetery.
Many of her traditional works show motifs from the Loessnitz .
Meier was friends with the artists Paul Wilhelm , Elisabeth Ahnert , Albert Wigand and the art historians Wolfgang Balzer and Fritz Löffler .
Works
- with Kurt Liebmann : woodcuts. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1963,
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
- Ruth Meier . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 364 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gudrun Täubert; Hans-Georg Staudte: Art in Public Space II. Gravestones . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2005.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meier, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quietly |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1965 |
| Place of death | Radebeul |