Rudolf Alfons Scholl

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Rudolf Alfons Scholl (born May 10, 1931 in Cologne ; † August 20, 2018 ) was a German painter and sculptor . His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been bought by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, the Stadtmuseum Siegburg and the Museum Baden (Art Museum Solingen).

Career

Scholl was born in Cologne in 1931 and studied between 1956 and 1962 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Bruno Goller  and at the Cologne Werkschulen with Otto Gerster . In 1961 he founded the group "times five" together with Hans-Joachim Block , Ben Granzer , Peter Ohlow and Jürgen Hans Grümmer .

In 1963 he was awarded the Cologne Prize for Painting. He lived and worked in Cologne.

Work

In Scholl's early works - drawings, watercolors and oil paintings from the late 1950s - the art historian Karl Ruhrberg recognized the influences of " Tachism " or Informel . During this time, Scholl a. at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in group exhibitions by Cologne artists as well as with solo exhibitions at the Boisserée gallery .

Solingen lintel, installation at the Kunstmuseum Solingen 2004

Since 1966 he has also created sculptural works. In contrast to his contemporaries in the 1960s , he did not experiment with new materials and media, but instead concentrated in his work with wood, stone and metal on form and “his own solutions at the intersection of sculpture and movement, statics and dynamics.” Since 1978 the series The Base and its Object was created .

Grave in the Melaten cemetery (September 2018)

Many of his abstract sculptures, in which rapid movements are made visible statically, as if “frozen”, can be found as art in buildings or in public spaces, including the rolled up staircase at the Wipperfürth district court as an early work in 1985 and the two-storey one as one of the more recent works in 2004 Installation Solingen lintel at the Museum Baden in Solingen .

Rudolf Alfons Scholl received several public commissions; his works were u. a. bought by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, the Stadtmuseum Siegburg and the Museum Baden in Solingen. He founded the Scholl Foundation , which, located in the center of Cologne in the Friesenviertel, has set itself the task of cultivating and honoring Scholl's artistic work on the one hand, and art and photography on the other through exhibitions, readings, lectures and concerts and to promote music and to offer a space for interdisciplinary, artistic dialogue.

Scholl died in 2018 at the age of 87. He was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 2 in M, no. 138-140a).

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1959 Cologne artist in the Cologne Art Association
  • 1960 winter exhibition, Düsseldorf
  • 1961 group “times five”, Art Association Utrecht
  • 1961 IV. International Graphic Exhibition, Ljubljana
  • 1962 Stadthalle, Viersen , group "times five"
  • 1963 City Hall, Berlin-Spandau, group “times five”,
  • 1963 Galleria San Fidele , Milan
  • 1964 group “times five”, Galerie Schütze, Bonn-Bad Godesberg
  • 1965 Rhein-Tiber-Preis, 12 Cologne painters in Rome
  • 1967 Sponsorship award in the Mülheim town hall
  • 1973 International Information and Art Fair, Düsseldorf
  • 1974/1975/1976 International Art Fair, Basel
  • 1986 3rd Triennial of Small Sculptures, Fellnbach
  • 1991 Large art exhibition NRW, Düsseldorf
  • 1998 Standpunkte, Seven Artists from Europe, Opera Foyer, Leipzig
  • 2008 Galerie Skala, In Memoriam, Cologne

Literature and catalogs

  • Block Granzer Grümmer Ohlow Scholl. Group `times five`. Catalog No. 1 / autumn 1962, Kölnischer Kunstverein 1963
  • RA Scholl, base objects and time lapse 30 July - 6 September 1992, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 1992
  • Catalog Rudolf A. Scholl, works 1962-2004, from the early pictures of the Solingen lintel, Solingen / Cologne 2004

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Alfons Scholl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page by Rudolf Alfons Scholl. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Karl Ruhrberg: "The way is the goal - stages in the painterly work of RA Scholl", in: Catalog Rudolf A. Scholl, works 1962-2004, from the early pictures to the Solingen lintel, Solingen / Cologne 2004 cited on kunstmuseum-solingen .de, accessed on January 5, 2014
  3. ↑ Manfred Schneckenburger: "The base problem and the question of the phases of movement in sculpture - made tangible", in: Catalog "Rudolf A. Scholl", Solingen 2004 , quoted on kunstmuseum-solingen.de, accessed on January 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Entry on lex-art.de ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 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. , accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lex-art.de
  5. ↑ Gerhard Kolberg in: Catalog Rudolf A. Scholl, Works 1962 - 2004, from the early pictures on the Solingen lintel, Solingen / Cologne 2004, cited at kunstmuseum-solingen.de, accessed on January 5, 2014
  6. ^ Rudolf Alfons Scholl in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Scholl, Rudolf Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholl, Rudolf A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2018