Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen

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Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen (* 4. April 1922 on Norderney , † 22. December 2014 in Dornum ) was a German painter of the informal , and also graphic artist and sculptor .

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Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen was born in April 1922 as Ruth Schmidt on the island of Norderney as the daughter of the fortress construction officer Albert Schmidt (1877–1940) and Annemarie Schmidt, née. Vollenbroich (1897–1968). She spent her childhood and youth in Norderney and Wilhelmshaven , where her father was transferred in 1930. In East Friesland she met the painter Hans Trimborn in early childhood . In 1941, because of the increasing number of bomb attacks on Wilhelmshaven, the family moved to the family's home estate in Stockhausen near Wetzlar (Hesse). As a compromise between her artistic inclinations and her father's insistence on a solid education, she decided to train as a handicraft teacher in Hildesheim, which she successfully completed in 1941 and continued for a few years. a. practiced in Melle near Bremen. In 1944 she received a scholarship from the German People's Association for the Promotion of Talented Students and received artistic training from the painter HW Berger and the sculptor Albert Kranz (1893-?) In the atelier at Heudorf Castle near Riedlingen (outsourced from the art academy due to war events).

From 1945 Ruth Schmidt made her way with portraits of Allied occupation officers and occasional assignments. In first exhibitions in Dillenburg, Gießen, Marburg, Wetzlar a. a. In cities in the Hessian region she was always referred to as Ruth Schmidt-Stockhausen, from which her artist name developed, under which she soon became known nationwide, initially mainly as a landscape watercolor artist and portrait painter. The businessman and building contractor Hermann Lindemann (1897–1954) discovered her talent and that of her cousin, the sculptor Giselher Neuhaus (1916–1994). He provided both of them with inexpensive apartments in the Meisengarten in Bonn-Bad Godesberg , a job at Dikreiter Verlag as illustrators and commissions for large wall paintings in public buildings and large sculptures. During these years, Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen took longer trips to Paris, Rome, Venice and other places as well as islands in Italy, where she made contacts with the international art scene and continued to orientate herself in the direction of Informel. In 1958 and 1959 she took part in exhibitions of the German Association of Artists in Essen and Wiesbaden - there was no third exhibition participation and admission to the DKB, because in 1959 she met the physician Hans-Dieter Hentschel (1921-2016) and married, afterwards Bad Nauheim moved and gave birth to their son Klaus Hentschel there . After a short baby break, she resumed her artistic work, especially large-format abstract paintings, and began a lively exhibition activity. Furthermore, Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen held a teaching position for free painting at the Art School Westend (today: Academy of Visual Arts. Frankfurt University for Communication and Design ) in Frankfurt am Main from 1976–1979 .

After her son's Abitur, Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen left Bad Nauheim in 1983 and moved back to the region of her birth in Westdorf near Dornum, East Frisia, just a few kilometers from the coast and her native island of Norderney. In a Gulfhof , whose barn she used as a summer studio, she created further large-format pictures and sculptures, with which she received great international attention as an outstanding representative of Informel - one of the very few women of this art direction. After her death at the end of 2014, she was buried at sea ​​in front of Spiekeroog . Her artistic legacy, the Westdorf house with summer and winter studios and the surrounding garden, have been transferred to the Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen Foundation based in Dornum and are open to the public on selected summer weekends.

Awards

  • Participation in exhibitions of the German Association of Artists in 1958 and 1959
  • Participation in Biennale 6 in the Palais de Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, 1957
  • Honorable mention Rome 1972 and medal of the Paris Fédération Internationale Culturelle Féminine for the exhibition in Athens 1973
  • Dornum Art Prize 2003

Memberships

  • Upper Hessian Artists Association (1946–1973), Group 9 (1974–1983)
  • GEDOK Bonn (from 1954) and artist group Bonn (from 1955)
  • Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Frankfurt (1961–83) and BBK Ostfriesland (1983–2014)
  • Founding sponsor of Soroptimist International, Club Ostfriesland - Norden (1994)
  • Kunstverein Norden & Kunstkreis Dornum

literature

  • Chronicle of the artist group Bonn. BBK, Bonn 1984.
  • Artists • Places • East • Frieze • Country. 2008.
  • 65 years of BBK Ostfriesland. 2011.
  • Klaus Hentschel (Ed.): Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen - Traces of Time. Examples from the extensive life's work. 2nd ext. Ed., Verlag für Regionalkultur, Diepholz 2013, ISBN 978-3-89728-078-6 .
  • Klaus Hentschel (ed.): Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen - Imaginary landscapes. Publisher f. Regional culture, Diepholz 2012, ISBN 978-3-89728-072-4 .
  • Klaus Hentschel (Ed.): Reminiscences of Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen (1922–2014). Verlag für Regionalkultur, Diepholz 2015, ISBN 978-3-89728-082-3 .
  • Club chronicle of the Soroptimist International Club Ostfriesland Norden. The first 20 years 1994–2014 . North 2014.
  • Schmidt, Ruth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 199 .
  • Walter Baumfalk: Fine arts in East Friesland in the 20th and 21st centuries. An artist lexicon , Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft, 2016, pp. 399–401.
  • Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen - Watts moods. Ostfriesischer Kunstkalender for 2018 , Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft 2017, ISBN 978-3-940601-43-8 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Stockhausen, Ruth Schmidt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Norderney
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2014
Place of death Dornum