Rolf Vollé

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Rolf Vollé (born January 12, 1901 in Basel ; died February 9, 1956 there ) was a Swiss painter.

Live and act

After breaking off a commercial apprenticeship, the son of a wallpaperer followed his talent for drawing and initially studied painting, especially landscape painting, as a self-taught artist . Using his spatula technique at the time, he painted pictures of nature, initially clearly influenced by the subdued and clayey Basel painting .

His first marriage at the age of 23 was divorced and he married Anny Küng in 1936. From this marriage a daughter and a son were born.

In the time of the economic crisis he placed the creating and suffering people at the center of his art. The first large paintings were made of miners in the mines and of working farmers. With the construction of the house on the Riederalp he turned to the alpine world, painted oil paintings with natural motifs and made woodcuts with rural motifs. Vollé built a holiday chalet and invited exhibitions in his mountain studio. The painter Henri-Eduard Huguenin also lived in Riederalp from 1940 , with whom he competed for the public's favor. Vollé's paintings also met with interest in Upper Valais and in 1954 the municipality of Brig invited him to show his Alpine paintings in the Stockalper Castle .

After several studio exhibitions, 50 of his works were exhibited for the first time at the International Maritime Exhibition in Rorschach .

He went on study trips to Lake Garda , southern Italy and the Rhineland , where the industrial and mining images were created. After the second world war he was in Vienna important meetings with artists such as Herbert Boeckl , Anton Kolig , Hans Boehler , Rudolf Haybach and Karl Ginthart . He became a student and assistant to Herbert Boeckl. In addition to Basel and Riederalp, Vienna soon became his second home. He was accepted into the artist group of the Vienna Secession and organized a larger overall exhibition of his works in this context in 1952. The Austrian Federal President Renner awarded him the title of professor.

In 1938, Hans Wieland and Max F. Schneider looked back on Vollé's first ten years of creativity in an illustrated monograph. Rudolf Haybach later described in the series of biography published by the Vienna Secession his artistic development from a naturalist to an increasingly abstract, monumental and colorful landscape painter. The article The Basel painter Rolf Vollé by Karl Ginhart in the journal Kunst ins Volk gives an overview of the artist's work.

In 1981, 25 years after his death, the Oberwallis Art Association, together with the Riederalp Tourist Office, organized a memorial exhibition in the Zur Matze Gallery in Brig and on Riederalp, combined with the publication of the book Vollé .

Exhibitions

  • 1933: Kornhaus Rorschach (International Shipping Exhibition)
  • 1936: Kartausgasse, Basel (studio exhibition)
  • 1937: Imthurneum Schaffhausen, trade and shipping exhibition
  • 1939: Permanent exhibitions in the mountain studio on Riederalp
  • 1941: studio exhibition
  • 1944: Neuchâtel, Galerie Leopold Robert, Alpine Kunst
  • from 1949: Vienna Secession (with other groups)
  • 1952: Vienna Secession, own exhibition
  • 1953: Vienna Secession, international exhibition of modern Christian art, painting: Crucifixion
  • 1954: Stockalper Castle, Brig
  • 1955: House of Art, Munich
  • 1959: Atelier-Memorial-Exhibition Kartausgasse, Basel
  • 1981: Memorial exhibition in the Matze gallery in Brig, in the mountain studio and in the Riederalp tourist office
  • 1986: Exhibition of approx. 80 oil paintings and approx. 60 watercolors and drawings in the Perrig Gallery in Basel

Works

Initially addressed by the Rhine landscape; Shipping and industry on the Rhine, mining and miners in the Ruhr area, pictures from Lake Constance, pieces of flowers, then high mountain landscapes from the Valais, workers and Valais folk types, figure pictures of musicians, group pictures, self-portraits, still lifes, religious representations, morphological studies, abstract compositions and Balser Impressions. In the early work hard, graphic, later painterly conception. Develops a brush texture with horizontally or vertically layered brush strokes (sometimes working with a spatula). Increasing weakening of the individual forms and carpet-like effect.

Areas of activity: oil, woodcut, aquatint, monotype.

literature

  • Max F. Schneider, Hans Wieland: Rolf Vollé, 10 years looking back at his work , 48 paintings and drawings (b / w), 1938, Karl Werner printing company, Basel.
  • Rudolf Haybach - Rolf Vollé . In: The gallery of the Vienna Secession , 39 paintings and drawings (b / w), 1951, Association of Visual Artists "Vienna Secession", Vienna I.
  • Karl Ginhart: The Basel painter Rolf Vollé . In: Kunst ins Volk (Vienna), 1953/54 issue 5/8, p. 244 f., 6 illustrations, issue 9/12, p. 312.
  • Mathilde de Stockalper: Rolf Vollé, peintre du Valais . Treize étoiles, 1954, No. 10, p. 17.
  • Biographical lexicon of deceased Swiss people . Volume V, 1961, p. 419.
  • Artist Lexicon of Switzerland, 20th century . Volume II, 1967, p. 1020.
  • Walter Ruppen, M. de Stockalper, Anny Fanny Vollé: Rolf Vollé 1901–1956 . Rotten Verlag 1981, 87 pp.
  • Riederalp tourist office : Rolf Vollé and his art work on Riederalp Information summer 1981, pp. 20/21, 4 images.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Deceased Swiss, FK Mathys
  2. ↑ Artist Lexicon of Switzerland, 20th century
personal data
SURNAME Vollé, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1956
Place of death Basel