Kurt Roth
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Kurt Roth (* 1899 Ratingen; † 30 October 1975 Uetersen), was a German painter of the 20th Century.
It was 1899 in Ratingen near Dusseldorf was born and lived from 1920 in Uetersen with his father, the painter Ludwig Max Roth monastery Uetersen in very modest circumstances. His training as an artist, he received in the Arts Academy Dusseldorf, Wroclaw, Budapest Copenhagen and London.
Kurt Roth, which is also known as portrait painters among others in the Hanseatic society Hamburg was known, his pictures painted in oil, preferably with the motives of the Holstein home too many motive e Uetersener old, in which he lived.
Roth was a great admirer of Adolph Menzel. Moreover, he once said:"His whole life he devoted the drawing. He has skilfully only because he constantly exercised. Talent and talent are just basics. " This was also true of Kurt Roth.
He spent his last years in bitter poverty. Time was just the way former Uetersener Mayor Heinrich Wilkens his only customer. This bought his pictures on the grounds:„You can be poor monastery painter but not starve“. And let the images in public buildings and schools hanger. Shortly before his death drew the painter once reviewed his life and noted:„Today I am poor. It would perhaps have been better after study character to become teachers. But life is now at an end“.
Kurt Roth died at 30 October 1975 lonely and abandoned in his small flat roof.
Today's local museum Uetersen the memory of the "poor monastery painter" wachgehalten and with a large exhibition appreciated.
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Stadt und Heimatgeschichtliches Museum Uetersen (2005) (Permanent exhibition in 1st Storey)
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Roth, Kurt |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German painter, artists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | [[ Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{"]] 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 30 October 1975 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Uetersen |
