Robert Pudlich

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Robert Pudlich (born January 25, 1905 in Dortmund , † October 24, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) was a German graphic artist , painter , illustrator and set designer of the lost generation . His art was shaped by the New Objectivity .

Life

From 1924 to 1926 Pudlich studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he attended Lothar von Kunowski's class . In 1927 he passed the master drawing teacher examination. In 1928 he made a study trip to the south of France. In the same year he received the Great Art Prize of the City of Düsseldorf . Pudlich belonged to the environment of the art dealer Johanna Ey . He was a member of the Rhenish Secession and the German Association of Artists . In 1936 he took part in the Nazi exhibition Western Front in Essen . In 1937 his works were classified as Degenerate Art . From this year he received invitations to the International Exhibition of Paintings of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania. In 1939 the city of Düsseldorf honored him with the Cornelius Prize for his picture Lady in Blue . From 1942 to 1946 Pudlich lived at Libermé Castle in Kettenis near Eupen . He came across the Wasserschloss belonging to Edwin Suermondt's widow through the mediation of the Düsseldorf gallery owner Alex Vömel , husband of the Suermondt widow since 1927. Helmut Weitz (1918–1966) also lived there in Inner Emigration . In exchange for fuel and food, both gave the later painter Adolf Christmann their first painting lessons. After the Second World War, from 1947 onwards, Pudlich designed stage sets and costumes for productions by Gustaf Gründgens (Düsseldorf and Hamburg). During this time he created a number of monumental wall paintings, for example for the Düsseldorf Opera House . In 1955 he took over a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. After a short illness he died in Düsseldorf.

Robert Pudlich's grave is in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery .

Exhibitions

Sgraffito with mosaic inlay by Robert Pudlich

literature

  • Erhard Göpel (Ed.): Robert Pudlich: Drawings . With 12 plates and 2 text contributions, Staackman, Leipzig 1942
  • Michael Hausmann: Johanna Ey: a critical reappraisal. Dissertation, University of Birmingham, 2010 ( abstract )
  • Werner Doede : Robert Pudlich . In: Monographs of Rhenish-Westphalian Art , Vol. 35, Recklinghausen 1968
primary
  • The carousel of adventures. Adventurous stories of world literature. Translated by Dorothea Behrend, Albrecht Fabri , Herbert Franke . Hardcover book cover first and last paragraph and the drawings in the text by Robert Pudlich. Staufen, Cologne 1947; 2nd edition 1949

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Kremer: Stations of a Path: Between Provinciality and Modernity - Some Aspects of Regional Art History . PDF in the portal dglive.be
  2. 1947: there are different book covers, also not designed ones; 1949: always without the figure. cover