Peter Ruhso
Peter Ruhso (born May 23, 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter.
Life
Even as a small boy, Peter Ruhso drew where and when it was possible. By drawing, he was able to put himself in a better and more beautiful world in order to escape the harsh everyday life of the Viennese post-war period. At the age of 14, Ruhso began an apprenticeship as a goldsmith and jewelry designer, which he successfully completed.
A good friend of Peter Ruhso, the architect and watercolorist Helmut Kern, recommended Ruhso to attend the Vienna art school in the 1970s . From 1970 to 1971 Peter Ruhso was director of the “Galerie Fath” in Vienna . From 1975 to 1979, Ruhso studied painting at the Vienna Art School, specializing in “nude and animal drawing”. His main professor and mentor was Fritz Martinz .
In the period from 1979 to 2003 Peter Ruhso made a name for himself in Vienna as “The Coffee House Painter”, as he spent hours in a coffee house at least once a week with coffee and cigars to study the human figure in the form of drawings / sketches and even to make large-format paintings. “The coffee house visitors were cheap models,” says Peter Ruhso. At that time, Peter Ruhso was mainly to be found in the old Viennese coffee houses called Sperl , Dommayer , Demel and Café Central . Ruhso has been active as a freelance artist / painter since 1979.
Teaching activities
- For more than a decade, Peter Ruhso was a professor at the Vienna Art School. He taught animal drawing to his students at Schönbrunn Zoo
- More than 10 years teaching activity for the artistic adult education center in the subject "animal drawing"
- More than 15 years of teaching in the Neumarkt an der Raab cultural association, teaching nude and animal drawing
- Various summer courses in Istria / Croatia, lessons in nude and animal drawing
- Summer academies in Wolfsberg, lessons in nude and animal drawing
- Summer academies in Finland, lessons in nude and animal drawing
- Numerous summer painting courses in Admont Abbey, lessons in landscape and animal painting
International exhibitions
Numerous exhibitions in
- Austria
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Finland
- France
His plants are represented in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, France and the USA.
Some of his works of art can a. at Schönbrunn Zoo and at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
studio
- From 1982 to 2005 in 1140 Vienna
- Since 2005 new studio in Burgenland , Eisenberg an der Raab
Awards
Award of the Medal of Honor of the Province of Burgenland for the merits of the art and culture promotion of the Neumarkt an der Raab cultural association.
Web links
Individual evidence
- The coffee house painter Peter Ruhso. Kleine Zeitung , July 29, 2011, archived from the original on October 12, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruhso, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |