Valentin Ruths

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Valentin Ruths
Valentin Ruths: Brick huts in the Sabiner Mountains, 1867

Johann Georg Valentin Ruths (born March 6, 1825 in Hamburg ; † January 17, 1905 there ) was a German landscape painter and lithographer from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the Hamburg School .

Valentin Ruths, drawn by Hans Speckter
Valentin Ruths: Wilsede ( Wilseder Höhe in the Nordheide)
Valentin Ruths: Spring in the forest near Aumühle

Life

Ruth's gravestone , Ohlsdorf cemetery

As the son of a businessman, Valentin Ruths was initially also supposed to be a businessman, but from 1843 he trained in this subject with the Hamburg painter and lithographer Carl Friedrich Beer. From 1846 he went to Munich , where he attended the polytechnic school and from 1847 the academy . In 1848 he returned to Hamburg and worked for the company Lithographisches Institut und Kupferdruckerei Charles Fuchs .

From 1850 to 1854 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy and trained as a landscape painter under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . After Schirmer was appointed first director of the newly founded Karlsruhe Art School in 1854 , Ruths also left the academy and set up her own studio in Düsseldorf. His former classmate at the academy, the painter and photographer Arnold Overbeck , photographed him in his studio in Düsseldorf. In 1855 he went to Italy for two years , mainly to Rome and the surrounding area.

From 1857 he lived in Hamburg again. He was a member of the Berlin Academy and from 1869 a member of the Academy in Vienna. Ruths received medals at exhibitions in Metz, Berlin (Golden Medal for Art, 1872) and Vienna. Ruths liked to paint Elbe areas, Italian and Swiss motifs. "He was considered to be skilled in depicting mountain and flat landscapes, in coastal and village scenes, and was praised for the great power of the mood, plastic drawing and energetic coloring". Alongside Ascan Lutteroth , he is considered to be one of the most important Hamburg landscape painters of his time. He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

From 1880 he painted eight large wall paintings together with Arthur Fitger for the staircase of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , in which the four times of the year and day were depicted. Alfred Lichtwark , the then director of the Kunsthalle, bought a total of ten paintings from Ruths. Ruths also published landscape templates for school and private lessons (Hamburg 1878). He also had Hermann Steinfurth portray himself and gave the portrait to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1893. Another portrait, an oil painting by Günther Gensler , showing Valentin Ruths and his colleague Hermann Kauffmann during a “painter visit” , is also in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. His niece Amelie Ruths , who had received her first training with him, also became a well-known painter.

In the women's garden of Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery there is a grave slab for members of the Ruths family, including Johann Georg Valentin Ruths and Marie Amelie Ruths. At grid square K 5 ( Bergstrasse near the cemetery museum) there is a portrait relief of Valentin Ruth on Ruth's tombstone , created by Paul Düyffcke .

The Ruthsweg in Hamburg-Barmbek has been named in his honor since 1914.

Exhibitions

Valentin Ruths was regularly represented with his works at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin , the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions and in the Munich Glass Palace .

He was also represented at the renowned art exhibitions in Dresden, Vienna, Antwerp, Prague, Hanover and Danzig, a list of over 250 works by Ruth can be found at F. von Boetticher.

A Valentin Ruths personal exhibition, organized by the Hamburger Kunstverein, took place in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1896. 197 works (oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and lithographs) were shown.

From April 12 to July 14, 2019, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is showing works by Valentin Ruths in the exhibition Hamburger Schule - The 19th Century Rediscovered.

Works (selection)

  • The tree house in the port of Hamburg (1850)
  • Evening in the Sabiner Mountains (1856, Kunsthalle in Hamburg)
  • North German Heath (1864, in Prague)
  • Megalithic tomb
  • The Waldbrunn (1866, in Königsberg)
  • Village in the Rhön
  • The Morteratsch Glacier and the Bernina Mountains (1876)
  • Thaw (1881)
  • Oldenburg oak forest
  • Beach area near Sopot (Berlin National Gallery)
  • The Scharmarkt in Hamburg
  • Lake in front of Rügen ( exhibition of the century of German art , Berlin 1906)
  • Estuary on the Baltic Sea
  • Heath near Estorf

literature

Web links

Commons : Valentin Ruths  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation of Valentin Ruths, matriculation book 1847. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Fuchs, Carl Friedr. In: SUB Hamburg, State Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg address book 1850 . Part II, p. 82 ( agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de - in the company Charles Fuchs, lithographic institute, copper printing, art and publishing company, Ness no. 7).
  3. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
  4. ↑ Quoted from Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon , see literature
  5. ↑ Valentin Ruths: Winter - Dorfkirchhof in the Harz. In: Kunst für alle, 1886, issue 17, p. 241. Heidelberg University, accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  6. ^ Illustration of the portrait showing Valentin Ruths ( archive.org ).
  7. ↑ Illustration of the painting showing Valentin Ruths and Hermann Kauffmann ( archive.org ).
  8. ↑ Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell a story. 4th edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 , p. 61.
  9. ^ Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, catalogs. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Large Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Large Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. Heidelberg University, accessed on July 2, 2015 .
  12. ^ Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ruths, Johann Georg Valentin. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 499-504 ( archive.org ).
  14. ^ A b c Board of Directors of the German Century Exhibition (ed.): Catalog for the "Exhibition of German Art from the Period 1775–1875 in the Royal National Gallery, Berlin 1906." Verlag F. Bruckmann AG, Munich 1906, Volume 1, p. 56 –57 (illustrations, text archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Ruths, Valentin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruths, Johann Georg Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1905
Place of death Hamburg