Rudolf Dischinger

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Rudolf Dischinger (born November 11, 1904 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 30, 1988 there ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity .

Rudolf Dischinger studied at the Baden State Art School with Georg Scholz and Karl Hubbuch . In 1927 he graduated from school with the drawing teacher examination and worked as a teacher in Freiburg until 1939. During this time he painted urban landscapes and still lifes in the New Objectivity style. From 1939 until he was wounded in 1942 he was a soldier in France and Russia. From 1946 he lived again as a freelance artist in Freiburg. There he taught at the art academy until it was dissolved in 1954. After that he worked again in school until his retirement in 1965. In 1976 he received the Reinhold Schneider Prize of the City of Freiburg.

Dischinger's grave in the main cemetery in Freiburg

After 1945 he started abstract painting . In his last years he turned back to representational painting.

Works by Dischinger can be seen in the Museum of New Art in Freiburg.

literature

  • Rudolf Dischinger. 1904-1988 . (Exhibition catalog Museum for New Art), Freiburg im Breisgau 1990
  • The Cool Look Realism of the Twenties, exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Prestel 2001

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