Rudolf Austen

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Rudolf Austen (born April 17, 1931 in Hainspach , Bohemia , † August 19, 2003 in Rostock ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Rudolf Austen was born in Hainspach, today's Lipová in the Czech Republic , in 1931 . From 1937 to 1945 he attended the local elementary and community school. In 1945 the family moved to Edderitz near Köthen . From 1946 to 1949 he did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Köthen.

From 1950 to 1953 he studied at the newly founded technical college for applied arts in Wismar with Werner Laux and Heinz Dubois . From 1953 to 1958 Austen studied at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee , where Gabriele Mucchi , Bert Heller , Arno Mohr , Kurt Robbel and Oskar Nerlinger were his teachers.

From 1958 Rudolf Austen had his residence in Rostock, where he initially worked as a freelance artist. In 1960 he began working as a lecturer at the Heiligendamm School of Applied Arts . Until 1980 he taught painting, design and nature studies there. After this time he was freelance again, mainly still lifes , landscapes and cityscapes. Study trips took him to Bulgaria in 1965, to Poland, Hungary, the Czechoslovak Republic , Syria in 1974 and to Austria in 1985.

Rudolf Austen was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . He was honored several times for his work, in 1974 he received the Culture Prize of the Rostock District Council , in 1976 the Order Banner of Labor (Level I) and in 1977 the GDR Art Prize . He died in Rostock in 2003 after a serious illness.

Works (selection)

  • Youth on the beach , around 1962
  • Sailing regatta , 1961
  • On the pier , 1964
  • Petrikirche in the early haze , 1964
  • Big sky over the island of Oie , 1968
  • Rainbow over Mönchgut , 1971
  • Mönchguter Landscape , 1975
  • Baltic Sea during a thunderstorm , 1978
  • Prague with Charles Bridge , 1984
  • Fishing Boats , 1984
  • Red House Stralsund , 1986
  • Before the Zeesenbootregatta , 1986
  • Beach landscape , 1988
  • Warnow shipyard , (1.0 × 1.30 m)
  • Fishing cooperative , (1.10 × 1.40 m)
  • Mönchsguter landscape , (1.10 × 1.40 m)
  • Steep coast with a view of the sea , (1.0 × 1.30 m)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972 in Ahrenshoop
  • 1973 and 1985 in Rostock
  • 1974 in Damascus
  • 1977 in Neubrandenburg
  • 1981 in Potsdam
  • 1982 in Greifswald
  • 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987 participation in the art exhibitions of the GDR
  • 1985 Rostock painters draw in Austria: Rudolf Austen, Karlheinz Kuhn , Hannes Müller, Ronald Paris ; Rostock art gallery
  • 1989 Galerie am Boulevard, Rostock

literature

  • Rudolf Austen . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 681.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 324 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Design in the GDR, a project of the Industrial and Everyday Culture Foundation: Technical School for Applied Arts Wismar
  2. ↑ Illustration at the Deutsche Fotothek
  3. ↑ a b Grete Grewolls: Who was who (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Austen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainspach , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2003
Place of death Rostock