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Fritz Ruoff BIOGRAPHY
1906 Nurtingen, Germany - 1986 Nurtingen, Germany. Known for: Non objective mixed-media, collage, ink drawing, graphic art, sculpture.
Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter. After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied... Read full biography
Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter. After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Alfred Lörcher until 1933. In 1943 he married Hildegard Ruoff née Scholl (1919–2020), who... Read full biography
Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter. After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Alfred Lörcher until 1933. In 1943 he married Hildegard Ruoff née Scholl (1919–2020), who until recently managed his artistic legacy in the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation. Until his death in 1986 he spent his working years in Nürtingen. His early work, coming from abstract... Read full biography
Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter. After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Alfred Lörcher until 1933. In 1943 he married Hildegard Ruoff née Scholl (1919–2020), who until recently managed his artistic legacy in the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation. Until his death in 1986 he spent his working years in Nürtingen. His early work, coming from abstract expressionism , is characterized by dynamism and expressivity. In 1948 he met the journalist Peter Härtling and became his mentor. [1] Fritz Ruoff participated as a full member of the German Association of Artists between 1956 and 1979 in fourteen annual DKB... Read full biography
Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter. After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Alfred Lörcher until 1933. In 1943 he married Hildegard Ruoff née Scholl (1919–2020), who until recently managed his artistic legacy in the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation. Until his death in 1986 he spent his working years in Nürtingen. His early work, coming from abstract expressionism , is characterized by dynamism and expressivity. In 1948 he met the journalist Peter Härtling and became his mentor. [1] Fritz Ruoff participated as a full member of the German Association of Artists between 1956 and 1979 in fourteen annual DKB exhibitions. In the 1960s his path leads to the constructive, meditative image. As far as we know today, the entire oeuvre comprise... Read full biography
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Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen ; † October 5, 1986 ibid) was a German sculptor and painter.
After an apprenticeship as wood sculptor, he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Alfred Lörcher until 1933. In 1943 he married Hildegard Ruoff née Scholl (1919–2020), who until recently managed his artistic legacy in the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation. Until his death in 1986 he spent his working years in Nürtingen.
His early work, coming from abstract expressionism , is characterized by dynamism and expressivity. In 1948 he met the journalist Peter Härtling and became his mentor. [1] Fritz Ruoff participated as a full member of the German Association of Artists between 1956 and 1979 in fourteen annual DKB exhibitions.
In the 1960s his path leads to the constructive, meditative image. As far as we know today, the entire oeuvre comprises more than 2,000 works.
Fritz Ruoff's work is supervised by the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation, founded in 2003. The foundation has a representative selection of works by Ruoff from all creative phases. The charitable foundation is run in trust by the city of Nürtingen.
Works by Ruoff include: in the Domnick Foundation (Nürtingen), the art collection of the Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen , the Esslingen district collection, the Stuttgart Art Museum and the Stuttgart State Gallery .
HONORS
In 1977 the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart appointed Fritz Ruoff an honorary member. In the appreciation by the then rector Wolfgang Kermer it says: "In summary, it can be said: From his sculptural beginnings through expressively placed symbols, whose titles such as 'Apocalypse', 'Golgotha', 'Menetekel', 'Vision' alone declare the deep pessimism of a section devoted to painting that extended until 1960 is Fritz Ruoff came more and more to a constructive-meditative imagery, to - as one is tempted to say - only the devotion of the individual inferring 'icons'. 'We have to serve pain and beauty at the same time' -
Fritz Ruoff quotes this sentence by Albert Camus in a letter dated September 13, 1971. And he adds: 'I would like to use this motto, at the risk of appearing arrogant, for all of my work to this day [...]'
In 1982 he received the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit
In 1986 the city of Nürtingen made Fritz Ruoff an honorary citizen
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Wikipedia, 2021Biography from Yves Siebers Auktionen
Ruoff, FritzNürtingen 1906 - 1986 ibid, sculptor, painter and graphic artist, student of Lörcher, active in Nürtingen