Paul Rotterdam

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Paul Rotterdam (* 1939 in Wiener Neustadt , actually Werner Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam) is an Austrian painter . He lives in New York and Texas.

Paul Rotterdam

Life

Paul Rotterdam spent his childhood in Wiener Neustadt, which was badly affected by the bombing, and after the age of 7 in Leoben . After high school in Leoben, he went to Vienna to take courses at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Rotterdam studied philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1960 to 1966, with his dissertation dealing with visual theories.

In 1965 he represented Austria at the Biennale of Young Artists in Paris and at the Biennale in Tokyo. Several solo exhibitions in Florence, Graz and Vienna followed. In 1967 he married his first wife Heidrun Vogelberg, their daughter Charlotte was born in 1969.

In 1968 Rotterdam was appointed associate professor at the Visual Art Center of Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts). In 1975 he also received a visiting professorship at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York City. After a creative period in Paris in 1977 with exhibitions in the Piltzer and Maeght galleries, he published a book with drawings and texts by Kenneth Wahl.

In 1979 Paul Rotterdam received a one-year visiting professorship at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he also published the book “Fourteen Stations of the Cross” with Alvin Martin. His marriage ended in the same year.

From 1973 Paul Rotterdam lived in a loft on West Broadway, New York. In the spring semesters, he taught at Harvard University. After the end of his teaching activity in 1987, he retired to a farm in New York State and worked there in his studio.

In 1986/87 the artist made numerous trips to Rolf Meier's copper printing workshop in Winterthur and illustrated "The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge" by Rainer Maria Rilke . In 1994/95 Paul Rotterdam returned to Vienna, where he gave 14 lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts in the spring semesters. In 1996 Paul Rotterdam married the painter Rebecca Little John. 2004 Prestel (Munich New York) publishes list of works of painting and sculpture 1953–2004. 2007 retrospective of drawings in the Leopold Museum, Vienna. In 2014 he published a collection of public lectures in English (University of Chicago Press) and German (Hirmer Verlag, Munich): “Wilde Vegetation - From Art to Nature.” In 2017 he had an exhibition together with Rebecca Little John in the Museum of the City of Leoben .

Rotterdam visits the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau in Austria for a few weeks every year for peace, quiet and reflection. He owns an extensive collection of African masks.

style

His pictures are abstract objects, mostly monochrome or reduced in color. Physical forms range from the canvas into space.

The art critic Dore Ashton writes about his style:

“His idea of ​​the painter's mission is similar to the statement Rilke made in a letter to his wife that reality is not about remaining in dreams, intentions or moods, but rather translating them into real things. Rotterdam is a modern painter (although he doubts its modernity and sometimes even provocatively denies it), with pictures that represent self-contained, physical entities. He is forced to translate his strong feelings into things. "

From around 1980, his minimalist style broadened and included more and more forms of nature. Alvin Martin writes:

“His new work continues to deal with cosmic expanse, but now on the level of the romantic concept of the sublime. His metaphysical fusion of earth, plants, sky and water, accentuated by references to ephemeral things or myths made by man, represents for him the eternal unity not only of man and nature, but also of the past, present and future. "

  • “Blenheim”, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 160 × 150 cm

  • “Garden”, 2006, acrylic on linen, 244 × 155 cm

  • “Night”, 1996, graphite on paper, 88 × 567 cm

Awards

Exhibitions

Numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums. Selected group exhibitions: 1975: Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum, New York. 1976: Artists-Immigrants of America 1876–1976, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC. 1980: American Drawing 1970–1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 1986: National Drawing Invitational, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. 1991: Le Cabinet des Dessins, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France. 1997: The New York School, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

Works in public collections

Albertina, Vienna. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Cornell University Art Museum, Ithaca. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge. Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul de Vence. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz. Leopold Museum, Vienna. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Musée de Nice, Nice. Musée l'Abbaye Sainte Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne. Musée d'Art Modern-Beaubourg, Paris. Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal. Museum of the City of Leoben, Leoben. Lower Austrian State Museum, St. Pölten. Ohara Museum, Tokyo. The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. The National Museum of Art, Osaka. The Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney. The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Publications

  • Paul Rotterdam. Exhibition 1965. Catalog, Gallery in the Greek Beisl , 1965.
  • Carl Aigner (Ed.): Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam. Worklist. painting, sculpture, projects. List of works. Painting sculpture projects. 1953-2004. With essays by Dore Ashton, Konrad Paul Liessmann , Joachim Rössl, Manfred Wagner and others Prestel, Munich 2004 and 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4 .
  • Alvin Martin: Paul Rotterdam: The 14 Stations of the Cross. The University of Texas, San Antonio 1982.
  • Carter Ratcliff: Paul Rotterdam. Selected paintings 1972–1982. Storrer Edition, Zurich 1982.
  • Joachim Rössl, Dore Ashton: Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam. Selected works, published 1969–1989 by the cultural department of Lower Austria, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85460-005-4 .
  • Kenneth Wahl: Paul Rotterdam: Selected drawings 1974–1977. Storrer Edition, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-85908-001-X .
  • Townsend Wolfe: Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam, A Drawing Retrospective 1969–1994. The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock 1995.
  • Paul Zwietnig Rotterdam: Wild Vegetation - From Art to Nature. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2228-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer: Substance of the living. In: Wiener Zeitung. August 30, 2007.
  2. ↑ Galerie Erich Storrer ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 56 kB) Biographical Data Werner Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam & Works in Museums and Public Collections @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galeriestorrer.com
  3. ↑ Leopold Museum ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Paul Rotterdam: The Art of Line - Drawings - Biographical Data @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / le000310.host.inode.at
  4. ^ Dore Ashton: All painting is initiated in paradox. In: Carl Aigner (Ed.): Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam. Worklist. painting, sculpture, projects. List of works. Painting sculpture projects. 1953-2004. With essays by Dore Ashton, Konrad Paul Liessmann , Joachim Rössl, Manfred Wagner et al Prestel, Munich 2004 and 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4 , p. 45.
  5. ^ Alvin Martin: Paul Rotterdam's new Romanticism. In: Carl Aigner (Ed.): Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam. Worklist. painting, sculpture, projects. List of works. Painting sculpture projects. 1953-2004. With essays by Dore Ashton, Konrad Paul Liessmann , Joachim Rössl, Manfred Wagner and others Prestel, Munich 2004 and 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4 , p. 144.
  6. ↑ BMUKK Art Minister Claudia Schmied presents the Cross of Honor for Science and Art to Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam, the laudation was given by Joachim Rössl on September 3, 2007.
  7. ↑ ORF Ö1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Heinz Janisch: Substance. Paul Rotterdam. An Austrian painter in the USA. Images of people October 4, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oe1.orf.at  

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personal data
SURNAME Rotterdam, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwietnig, Werner; Zwietnig-Rotterdam, Werner Paul; Rotterdam, Paul Z.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt