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In 2011, I heard about an exhibition taking place only two streets away from my home and I got interested in the artist Peter Reuter. Never before had I heard of this artist who allegedly came from Hagen.
How would they look like, his “imaginary landscapes”?
Because of my great love of nature, I really wanted to see those paintings. At the exhibition, I met the married couple Brigitte and Helmut Schuster. At that moment, I did not know that this encounter would be of great importance for my future. We became friends and lived through good and bad times (Brigitte Schuster’s death in August 2016).
My frequent visits to the Osthaus Museum Hagen had provided me with some knowledge about art. However, what I saw at Peter Reuter couple’s home was unknown territory for me. There they were hanging, Peter’s “psycho-symbolic paintings”. They were simply overwhelming. Reuter’s original life work: Birth, Life, Death. Everything was orbiting around these topics and its grace took my breath away. I wanted to know everything about the artist and his life. I absorbed everything Mister Schuster told me about him and I drilled him with questions. I became Mister Schuster’s ally in making the paintings of Reuter public. It was exactly what Reuter did not want during his life. “I need time for the things I want to paint. I will certainly need about 30 years to finish them!”, Reuters said in 1972 to his patron Schuster. And it really turned out to be 30 years when Reuter finished painting everything the way he had imagined it. “After that I do not want to pant again!” His words came true. Sadly! After finishing his work, Reuter died in 2002. He was granted 30 years – but not more! Birth, Life, Death, his message to the art of painting.
Prof. Dr. phil. Walter Israel ( † 2018), who published an article in memory of Peter Reuter in “Hagen Buch 2013”, once said to Mister Schuster: “All patrons were millionaires and put pressure on the artist. All but you. You are the artist’s most important patron, someone who lets him paint without time pressure and without rushing for the money!” Furthermore, Peter Reuter was lucky to have a patron who never questioned why the artist painted the way he did.
Peter Reuter’s paintings are unique, they are unmistakable! There is nothing on the entire globe that comes close to his paintings.