Wilhelm Redeligx

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Rheinstrandbad and Drachenfels on an emergency bill
House Redeligx in Rhöndorf

Wilhelm Redeligx (* 1865 in Cologne ; † March 13, 1951 in Rhöndorf ) was a German lithographer and winemaker.

Life

Wilhelm Redeligx was the older of two sons in a family of manufacturers. With the advent of electric motors , the business of his father's steam engine factory declined. After the death of his father, Wilhelm Redeligx should actually have taken over the management; Instead, he trained as a lithographer in the book printing shop of relatives, before he was able to study at the art academies in Düsseldorf and Berlin , financially supported by a sponsor, and then to travel to Portugal and Italy . After his return he married Josefine Nelles from Cologne in 1895.

As an industrial draftsman, Redeligx was initially able to live well on the fees for the large brochures he produced. When the competition from photography became too noticeable, however, he switched to viticulture, although without giving up his preoccupation with art. He created numerous views of old Cologne and, after moving to Rhöndorf, documented the surrounding area in drawings and later also in oil paintings and watercolors. Some of his works were published on postcards, calendar sheets or otherwise.

The emergency money series for Honnef (today Bad Honnef), which he created together with Heinrich Reifferscheid in 1921, was a specialty in his artistic work . On the text side of the notes one of the questions posed by the seven dwarfs from “ Snow White ” could be seen, the picture side was decorated with views of the surroundings.

Redeligx also created matching labels for his wine bottles from Gut Münchenberg, which he had put together from numerous narrow parcels in the hallway in Münchenberg. After initially living with his family in the "Haus Waldfrieden" on Löwenburgstrasse, he soon built a country house decorated with turrets based on his own designs, diagonally opposite. The "Redeligx House" in Löwenburgstrasse 57 is now a listed building ; the winery is no longer owned by the family.

Redeligx did not exhibit his pictures during his lifetime. In 2010, however, a retrospective entitled “Wilhelm Redeligx, 1865–1951” took place in the Kunstraum Bad Honnef.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Redeligx  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Honnefer Volkszeitung March 14, 1951 and obituary
  2. ↑ Brückenhofmuseum: Schaefer restoration on the Hirschberg
  3. ↑ Marienbad in Rhöndorf
  4. ↑ Hotel Kölner Hof in Koenigswinter
  5. ↑ Rhöndorfer Kapelle ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kvv-archiv.de
  6. ↑ z. B. Karl Günter Werber: Bad Honnef on the Rhine in old views. Zaltbommel 1989, ISBN 90-288-4861-4 , fig. 3.
  7. ↑ Rheinkiesel ( Memento of April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  8. ^ Exhibition on emergency money
  9. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 53.
  10. ↑ Breakdown of life
  11. ^ Wilhelm Redeligx, 1865 - 1951 ( Memento of December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Exhibition 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Redeligx, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer and winemaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1951
Place of death Rhöndorf