The painter Wolf Reuther

Attended the Schloss Neubeuern school from 1932 to 1935. This time had a decisive influence on his life, as art, music and theatre teachers recognised his talent there. Charismatic and empathetic teachers at Schloss Neubeuern instilled in him his artistic self-confidence in the years after the school was founded in 1925 . With a recommendation from the school to the Munich Art Academy, he left school without graduating. It was also the time,when Reuther was recommended by Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s widow Gerty,as an assistant to Max Reinhardt’s assistant director,at the Salzburg Festival. Healso devotes himself to music and plays for concerts by Mozart, Brahms and Hindemith for clarinet.
At seventeenyears of age, he passed admission to the Munich Kunstaacademy, with the teachers Olaf Gulbranssonfor drawingand Julius Hess for painting.He studied at the universityehe and theatre studies at Arthur Kutscher.

However, Wolf Reuther’s very distinctive painting style was characterised in particular by his later friendship with the French painter and sculptor Fernand Leger. The latter became known above all for the modernity of his works and ideas, with which he celebrated machines, urban life and progress.

In 1945, Reuther acquired a plot of land in Holzham, on which he built a house according to his own design. His studio was also built there later. Although Reuther painted and exhibited all over the world, he always returned to Neubeuern to relax in his “oasis” – here he had found his home and final resting place. The idyllic location of his house and studio in Holzham has been preserved to this day.