Ronald Paris

Ronald Paris (12 August 1933 – 17 September 2021 ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Provenance and education Ronald Paris was born in Sondershausen, a small town in central Germany with a long tradition as an army town. His father was a stage actor and singer: his mother was a housewife, qualified as a seamstress. As the war drew to a close, formally ending in May 1945, Paris was rescued by advancing American troops from a fire in the cellar of the school in Sondershausen. In 2004, in commemoration of this event, which involved the rescuing of many families, he produced an altar triptych for the Trinitatis Church in Sondershausen where, many years before, he had been baptized. By this time his urge to become a painter had become firmly rooted: between 1950 and 1952 he undertook appropriate studies, starting with evening classes at the Visual Arts Academy in Weimar and moving on, in 1951, to the Workers' and Peasants' faculty at Jena where he qualified for an entitlement to attend a university. He then undertook a brief internship/traineeship at the Castle Museum in Gotha.

Between 1993 and 1999 Ronald Paris was a professor at the "Burg Giebichenstein" Arts Acadademy in Halle. Since 1985 he has lived and worked in Rangsdorf near Berlin.

Close friends included the painters Ursula Wendorff-Weidt and Gabriele Mucchi, along with the singer Wolf Biermann, the graphic artist Herbert Sandberg and Ursula's husband, the expressionist dance pioneer Jean Weidt.