Rolf Wagner (painter)

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Rolf Wagner (born March 28, 1914 in Dresden , † 2003 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and wall designer.

Life

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From 1932 to 1933 Wagner studied at the Dresden Art Academy , where Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix were among his teachers. He fled from Dresden to Aalen in 1945, presumably all of his pre-war work was lost. In 1948 he settled in Stuttgart and began painting again, creating surrealist works . From 1952 his creations were increasingly reduced to expressive fragments. He then worked the surface with sand, wire, corrugated cardboard and similar materials.

From 1955 to 1960 Wagner produced constructivist wall reliefs for public and private buildings, mainly in Stuttgart, but also in Darmstadt, Cologne, Böblingen, Mönchengladbach and Al Khums / Libya. In the 1960s he turned to tempera paintings with space-defining surface forms. In 1967 Wagner began to produce abstract meditation pictures in Op Art , which from around 1980 onwards were limited to the basic geometric shapes of square, rectangle, circle and triangle. The colored, nuanced relief images create an optical effect of the room.

Works (selection)

His cycle of twelve woodcuts for the poetry of Erich E. Baumbach "The End, A Surrealist Dance of Death" was created in 1937.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1953: Galerie Lutz and Meyer, Stuttgart
  • 1954: Samlaren Gallery, Stockholm
  • 1955: Galerie Simone Collinet, Paris
  • 1956: Galerie Van der Vries, Amsterdam
  • 1968: Galerie Schloß Remseck, Neckarrems
  • 1970: Flori Gallery, Florence
  • 1973: Knoll International, Stuttgart
  • 1974: Knoll International, Cologne
  • 1976: Galerie Landessparkasse-Girokasse, Stuttgart
  • 1978: Galerie Lutz, Stuttgart
  • 1983: Galerie Schloss Remseck, Neckarrems
  • 1984/1985: Galerie Weberstrasse 2, Wendlingen am Neckar
  • 2001: Rathausgalerie, Aalen
  • 2008: BRAUBACHfive Gallery, Frankfurt am Main: "emerging structures"
  • 2009 (February 20 to March 21, 2009) Room for Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2011: Schindowski-Heller in close cooperation with Gaiser & Cie. and Moonblinx Gallery, Frankfurt am Main: "emerging structures" (November 2011 to the end of December 2011)

Collections

His works are represented in several collections, including:

  • Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
  • State Gallery Stuttgart
  • former collection of Karl Ströher , Darmstadt
  • Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt
  • Collection of the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart, today the LBBW collection
  • Behr Collection, Stuttgart
  • Collection Prof. Fritz Nallinger , Stuttgart
  • Knecht Collection, Stuttgart
  • Grace Borgenicht Collection, New York

literature

  • Hans Hildebrandt : Rolf Wagner . In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 40, Issue 10, 1953, pp. 337–340.
  • Art of our time: Karl Ströher collection , without text, softcover, 30 pages, 21 × 15 cm. The catalog is out of print.
  • Rolf Wagner by Hans Hildebrandt, Stuttgart: Fricke, 1954
  • Rolf Wagner emerging structures by Christian Boelcke, Sebastian Gaiser and Dr. Tobias Wall, published by the Rolf Wagner Foundation, publisher: MOONBLINX GALLERY Editions, ISBN 978-3-00-025003-3
  • Order and its infiltration - concentrated selection of works: works by Rolf Wagner in the Frankfurter Galerie Braubach Five by Christoph Schütte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), from July 31, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 5, 2007 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de
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  3. ↑ http://www.gaiser.ch/resources/ROLF_WAGNER_BOOK.pdf .

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and wall designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 2003
Place of death Stuttgart