Ruth Schaumann

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Hugo Kunz (1884–1938): Portrait of Ruth Schaumann
Ruth Schaumann signature 1937

Ruth Schaumann (born August 24, 1899 in Hamburg , † March 13, 1975 in Munich ) was a German poet , writer , sculptor and illustrator.

Life

Ruth Schaumann was the daughter of the Prussian officer Curt Schaumann and his wife Elisabeth, nee Becker. She grew up with two sisters and her brother Felix, who died early, in the garrison town of Hagenau / Alsace . At the age of six, Ruth Schaumann lost her hearing as a result of severe scarlet fever . She was sent to Hamburg with her nanny Ida Goretzki, where she and two deaf children of a wholesale merchant received private lessons in his house. During this time she learned lip reading .

In 1917 Ruth Schaumann moved to Munich to learn the profession of fashion draftswoman. During this time, she wrote her first poems, which she later published in her first work, The Cathedral . At the suggestion of the Catholic priest Alois Wurm, Ruth Schaumann applied to the Munich School of Applied Arts in January 1918 and was accepted into Joseph Wackerle 's sculpture class. Due to her plastic proclamation , she was appointed a master student in January 1921 .

In November 1923 the essay Ruth Schaumann: Plastic and Poetry appeared in the literary monthly Hochland , through which the young artist gained greater prominence. This article was the result of a long interview that the editor of the Hochland , Friedrich Fuchs (1890–1948), had conducted with Ruth Schaumann. A year later, Friedrich Fuchs and Ruth Schaumann married in Munich after the artist converted to the Catholic Church on her own initiative . The marriage has five children.

In February 1935, her husband lost his post as editor because of differences of opinion with Karl Muth , the publisher of the Hochland . From 1935 onwards, Ruth Schaumann's artistic work was considered “ degenerate ”. As a writer, however, she could continue to publish. Her novella Der Petersiliengarten was published in 1937, and in 1941 the novel Die Silberdistel .

After the end of the war, Ruth Schaumann mainly made sacred art: altarpieces, sculptures , stations of the cross, church windows. She has also published numerous novels and short stories, some with her own illustrations. The highlight of her late literary work is her autobiographical novel Das Arsenal , published in 1968 by FH Kerle in Heidelberg . In addition to her extensive literary and artistic work, she also emerged as a silhouette artist.

Ruth Schaumann died on March 13, 1975 in Munich and was buried next to her husband in the Winthir cemetery in the Neuhausen district .

On the 100th birthday of Ruth Schumann, her unfinished manuscript Der Kugelsack was published posthumously in 1999 by Signum-Verlag in Hamburg , which is designed as a continuation of her autobiographical novel Das Arsenal .

Honors

Works

  • Fountain figures from the Dörfler fountain created by Schaumann in the Winthir cemetery

  • KPM figurine angel floating down

  • KPM Christmas plate 1937

Sculptures

  • Franciscan
  • Mechthild of Magdeburg
  • 1918: Madonna and Child (linden wood),
  • Pieta
  • Foolish virgin
  • Seated virgin with unicorn
  • Annunciation
  • Little Fabian (lime wood)
  • Passage to the Temple of Mary
  • 7 whims ( terracotta ): poverty, homesickness, vanity, the little prayer, grape seeds, repentance and loyalty
  • The youngest, 1920
  • Small thanks
  • High relief nativity scene (duplicated in majolica )
  • Snail and rabbit
  • Homesickness
  • Relief angel music
  • Pieta 'Dörfler-Madonna' (bronze)
  • Unicorn Madonna (linden wood)
  • Mood (Terracotta): The seeing blindness
  • Eva and Maria (linden wood)
  • Relief familiarum columen (terracotta), 1923
  • Gold-plated crucifix (plaster)
  • 7 whims with and without majolica
  • Double bust: mother's head with child's face
  • Boy making music (clay figure)
  • Relief Virgin with rayed hands (majolica)
  • 3 tombstones
  • Little Madonna of the Room
  • Relief Anna selbdritt (bronze)
  • 7 whims: Little poverty, grape pods, girl with ram, searching, the beginning of eternity, don't know what, question and answer
  • Boy with hand organ (linden wood)
  • The greeting (sound), 1924
  • Saint Tarcisius
  • The high song (sound)
  • Relief Christ with a crown of thorns
  • Shepherd and shepherdess (sound)
  • The column (linden wood)
  • Gravestone for Albrecht Talbaum
  • Adam and Eve, single figures (bronze)
  • The youngest, 1924
  • Seat of Wisdom, 1924
  • Saint Christopher, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Immaculata
  • Whims: small and yet big, dedication (terracotta)
  • Our Lady, bronze relief, St. Maria Königin (Obernbreit) , 1970

painting

Woodcuts

Designs for the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin

  • 1928: King of the Goose
    • Angel praying
    • Angel with lute
  • 1929: "Vineta" fish service
  • 1930: bust
    • Angel with shawm
    • Angel floating down
    • Angel child with mythical animal
    • King Goose small
    • Cake plate four seasons
  • 1938: Christ Child
  • 1941: Madonna and Child
  • 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934–1938: Christmas plates

Poetry

  • 1920: the cathedral
  • 1924: The Passional (2nd edition)
    • The bud base, 2nd edition.
  • 1927: Der Rebenhag , 2nd edition.
    • The rose , 2nd edition.
  • 1928: The children and the animals
  • 1930: The beloved things
  • 1932: The Nativity Scene
  • 1947: Limbo . Poems, new edition: Kepplerhaus Verlag, Stuttgart 1953.
  • 1969: At the edge of the crib . Christmas poems.

prose

  • 1929: The Blooming Staff (short stories)
  • 1932: Amei: Story of a Childhood (autobiographical)
  • 1933: Ave von Rebenhagen
    • Yves
    • Seven women
  • 1934: The singing fish. With 20 colored panels based on parchment miniatures by the author.
  • 1935: Ecce Homo . A passion in master images.
  • 1936: Ansbacher Nänie . Novella
  • 1938: The black Valtin and the white Osanna . novel
  • 1940: The superior force .
  • 1941: The silver thistle . narrative
  • 1942: The shepherd in the beautiful bush . narrative
  • 1943: the onion . narrative
  • 1945: the flowers .
  • 1946: Solamen .
  • 1953: The Karlovy Vary Wedding . novel
    • Two stories. The kneeling. The pharmacist's assistant
  • 1955: The pigeon . novel
  • 1968: the arsenal . Novel, autobiographical
  • 1999: The ball sack . Novel, autobiographical ( posthumous )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Weiss: Carl Muth and his editors , in: Freundeskreis Mooshausen, Conference Carl Muth and the Hochland 2014, p. 6.
  2. ↑ http://mooshausen.de/downloads/cmuth/2014-tagung/otto_weiss.pdf
  3. ↑ https://ruthschaumannschule.wordpress.com/schule/ , accessed on April 10, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schaumann, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer, sculptor and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1975
Place of death Munich