Frank Ruddigkeit

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Frank Ruddigkeit (born August 19, 1939 in Grenzberg , East Prussia , today Pridoroschnoje) is a German painter , graphic artist and book artist .

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Bronze relief Aufbruch by F. Ruddigkeit, K. Schwabe and R. Kuhrt, on the main building of the University of Leipzig in 2006

Ruddigkeit was born the son of a bricklayer. In 1948 his family moved to Engelsdorf near Leipzig . Ruddigkeit studied from 1957 to 1962 at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig with Heinz Wagner and Hans Mayer-Foreyt .

After a teaching position at the Institute for Art Education at the University of Leipzig from 1962 to 1963 and an aspirantur at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig, he worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist, sculptor and medalist. From 1974 to 2004 he taught at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle , where he was appointed professor in 1981. 1974 to 1978 he was chairman of the Leipzig district association of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . The bronze relief Aufbruch in front of the University of Leipzig, created by Frank Ruddigkeit, Klaus Schwabe and Rolf Kuhrt , was erected on the occasion of the new university building in 1973. The relief was dismantled in 2006 and is now located on the Jahnallee campus .

Relief on the history of the Leipzig market on Leipzig market square

His commissioned work for public space on the history of the Leipzig market square, created in 1978, can be counted among the artist's main works.

Frank Ruddigkeit lives and works in Leipzig.

Awards

literature

  • Peter Guth (Ed.): Frank Ruddigkeit. Bottom line. The graphic work. Faber and Faber, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-932545-42-7 .
  • Hannelore Röhl (Ed.): A matter of opinion: writers and artists in conversation. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1988, ISBN 3-354-00342-1 , p. 121.
  • Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signature Lexicon. de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-014937-0 , p. 935.
  • Gernot Gabe: German book artists of the 20th century illustrate German literature. University and City Library Cologne, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-931596-37-0 , p. 210.
  • Anke Scharnhorst:  Ruddigkeit, Frank . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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