Ruth Steinegger

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Ruth Steinegger in her studio in Freienstein ZH 2010
Ruth Steinegger: Self-Portrait, 1984

Ruth Steinegger (born May 26, 1917 in Winterthur ; † March 12, 2012 in Embrach ZH) was a Swiss journalist and expressionist painter .

Live and act

Ruth Steinegger grew up in Schaffhausen . She spent language courses in Florence and Venice as well as in England. She moved to central Switzerland with her husband, the businessman Friedrich Germann. In Zug and since 1953 in Lucerne , she worked as a journalist and editor after her divorce . She also attended the Lucerne School of Applied Arts, where Werner Andermatt , Leopold Haefliger and Max von Moos became her teachers.

She began her job as a freelance journalist and worked for local newspapers, did interviews and reports, wrote concert reviews, market reports and feature sections . She illustrated many articles with her own drawings. She wrote pieces for the puppet theater of her children, for Radio DRS she wrote radio plays and from 1966 to 1984 chats Dur d'Wuche dure . She became an editor for the Schweizer Frauenblatt, among others . In 1968 she moved to Zurich , where she edited company magazines. From 1975 until her retirement in 1980 she was editor of the Thurgauer Volkszeitung . She also worked at Meyers Modeblatt , where her forewords and thoughts on the week were well received from 1987 to 1996 .

On her travels to southern Europe ( Misox and Ticino, Italy, southern France, Dalmatia and Crete) she found inspiration for painting and drawing that offered her lifelong motifs. Since 1969 she had a house with a studio in Freienstein ZH , where she worked with clay and textiles in addition to oil painting on canvas and drawing on paper. Stylistically, she moved in a socially engaged expressionism with a depth psychological background.

She has long-standing friendships with artists such as János Hajnal in Rome and Arnold Kübler and with the Utrecht university professor and writer Hélène Nolthenius (1920–2000). As a member of the Zurich Artists' Association, she often had the opportunity to show her works, and her pictures found many buyers.

The Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen keeps some of her oil paintings and watercolors , the Zurich Central Library her drawings and the manuscript department her literary legacy. A documentation of her artistic work is in the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK) in Zurich. A catalog raisonné currently under construction includes over 120 works (as of 2019).

literature

  • Lexicon of contemporary Swiss artists. Ed .: Swiss Institute for Art Research. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1981, ISBN 3-7193-0765-4 , p. 351.
  • Artist directory in Switzerland. Ed .: Swiss Institute for Art Research. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1991, ISBN 3-7193-1045-0 , p. 428.
  • Biographical lexicon of Swiss art. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85823-673-X , Volume 2, p. 1001.
  • um .: 18 artists in Zurzach: painting what goes to the heart. In: Fricktaler Zeitung , August 12, 1987, p. 17. (With illustration by Ruth Steinegger during her introductory lecture)
  • zw .: Insight into the work of three women: Spring exhibition in the Spycher Gallery [Schöfflisdorf] lasts until May 24th. In: Zürichbieter, Zürcher Unterländer , May 13, 1988. (with illustration of still life by Ruth Steinegger)

Web links

Commons : Ruth Steinegger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, August 24, 1982 / e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Etty Mulder: Rede en vervoering, Helene Nolthenius, 1920-2000 ; uitgeverij Vantilt, Nijmegen 2009, 319 pp., ill .; ISBN 978-94-6004-021-4 ; about Ruth Steinegger especially pp. 50–55 and 230–233, as well as photos pp. 158–159, 170, 198, 201–202 and 208; the book is dedicated to Ruth Steinegger by the author and contains a drawing by her (p. 23).
personal data
SURNAME Steinegger, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2012
Place of death Embrach