Fritz Ruoff - Artist Info

About Fritz Ruoff

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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 ...

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