Walter Roos

Walter Roos (born September 14, 1929 in Aschaffenburg , † September 1, 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

As a real “twilight boy” he attended elementary school in the Aschaffenburg district of Damm and began an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman in 1944. From 1947 he studied painting, free graphics and writing with Professor Paul Thesing and Ludwig Becker at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt, together with Helmut Gehrig and Ernst Vollmer. Together with Helmut Gehrig, Siegfried Rischar and Joachim Schmitt, he worked as a commercial graphic artist in Aschaffenburg from 1949 to 1952, and from 1953 as a freelance artist. In 1956 he married Rita Helmling, who died in 1960. In 1962 he married Maria Lang, who gave him 2 daughters (Angelika in 1964 and Karin in 1968). In 1972 he took on a permanent position as head of the graphic department and apprentice trainer in an Aschaffenburg advertising agency, which he carried out until his death in 1988.

Walter Roos, a painter with a post-expressionist handwriting, belonged to the circle of artists around Elisabeth Dering , together with Helmut Albert, Willibald Blum, Anton Bruder, Helmut Gehrig, Karin Kruck, Ludobar Mossora, Siegfried Rischar , Bruno Supernok, Gunter Ullrich and Ernst Vollmer .

A few days after the opening of his exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, Walter Roos died.

Artistic career

• 1954–1988 Illustration of several books and maps, some book covers
• 1957–1963 Working group with Siegfried Rischar , together with him he created various wall paintings and graffiti
• 1958 lecturer at the adult education center in Aschaffenburg, courses in free drawing and font design, meeting with Anton Bruder
• 1961 Design of the book: Konrad Adenauer "Thinking about the values"
• 1970–1972 Art in architecture - different materials
• 1971 Lecturer at the municipal vocational school Aschaffenburg, courses in design and free design
• 1976 member of the professional association of visual artists (BBK) Lower Franconia
• 1976–1979 board member of the Aschaffenburg artists in the BBK
• 1978–1979 creation of the woodcuts
• 1984 “Good Friday” glass window with a Pieta motif in the Church of the Birth of Mary in Aschaffenburg-Schweinheim
• 1984–1988 member of the jury of the BBK Würzburg

Exhibitions

• 1958 Atelier exhibition together with Siegfried Rischar in the joint Adalbert Hock studio
• 1959 Evangelical parish hall in Aschaffenburg, together with Siegfried Rischar
• 1962 Karlsruhe, Karlsruher Bücherbund with Siegfried Rischar
• 1978 Aschaffenburg City Theater and Aschaffenburg Jesuit Church (each together with BBK)
• 1979 Pommersfelden Castle, together with Gunter Ullrich, Sigrid Mahncke, Bernd Krebs and Helmut Gehrig
• 1980 Otto Richter Halle Würzburg (BBK Unterfranken), Aschaffenburg Jesuit Church (together with BBK) later again (together with Helmut Gehrig)
• 1981 Residence, Bad Windsheim (together with Helmut Gehrig), Otto Richter Halle Würzburg (BBK Upper and Lower Franconia)
• 1982 Weißenstein Castle, Pommersfelden (together with BBK Unterfranken), Aschaffenburg Arcade Gallery
• 1983 Würzburg hospitals (BBK Lower Franconia)
• 1984 Bavarian representation in Bonn (together with BBK), workshop gallery No. 18 Aschaffenburg
• 1985 City Collections Schweinfurt (together with artists from Schweinfurt)
• 1986 Otto Richter Halle Würzburg (BBK Unterfranken), Städtische Sparkasse Schweinfurt, (together with Rainer Stoltz), Kulturhalle Haibach "Edition Roos"
• 1987 Otto Richter Halle Würzburg (BBK Lower Franconia)
• 1988 Dresdner Bank Frankfurt (solo exhibition)
• 1981–1987 annual exhibitions in the Aschaffenburg Jesuit Church (together with the BBK)

Solo exhibitions

• 1988 Dresdner Bank Frankfurt
• 1988 Jesuit Church Aschaffenburg "Homage to Walter Roos"
• 1989 Jesuit Church Aschaffenburg "Walter Roos - Memorial Exhibition"
• 1993 Gallery "Between the Chairs" Aschaffenburg "Roos, Supernok, Mossora"
• 2000 Jesuit Church - Aschaffenburg City Gallery: "Walter Roos, Painting - Graphics"

His works are in public (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung Munich, museums of the city of Aschaffenburg, Sparkasse Aschaffenburg-Alzenau ) and in private hands.

literature

• Walter Roos: Painting - Graphics. Jesuit Church, City of Aschaffenburg Gallery (ed.). With contributions by Brigitte Schad, Helmut Dippner and Gunter Ullrich (= Forum Aschaffenburg, No. 22). Aschaffenburg 2000. 140 pp. ISBN 3-87707-560-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Roos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Aschaffenburg museums - Castle Museum - contemporary artists (use search function)