Rudolf Gudden

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Inspiration , self-portrait with muse (1925)

Rudolf Gudden (born August 21, 1865 in Werneck / Lower Franconia, † September 15, 1935 in Munich ) was a German genre and landscape painter .

genealogy

Rudolf was one of nine children of the physician and psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden . One of his brothers was the portrait painter Max Gudden . Rudolf was born in 1865 at the headquarters of the psychiatric clinic and grew up here. His mother was Clarissa Voigt (* October 4, 1833, † March 10, 1894). She was the granddaughter of the psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi (1775-1858), whose assistant doctor Gudden was in Siegburg from 1848 to 1851 . Rudolf's great-grandmother was Anna Frederike Petrina Claudius, a daughter of the poet Matthias Claudius .

education

Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826–1886) recognized Rudolf Gudden's talent and promoted his education. From October 1881, Rudolf studied at the Munich Academy under Professor Johann Leonhard Raab (1825–1899). Rudolf Gudden was also in the painting class under Professor Ludwig von Löfftz (1845–1910). He then moved to the Karlsruhe Academy . In 1888 he moved to Frankfurt am Main , from where he went on study trips that took him to Holland, Spain, Italy and Morocco, among others. In Germany he looked for solitude in the Vosges. In 1906 Rudolf Gudden was one of the founding members of the Frankfurt-Cronberger Künstler-Bund, where he exhibited with Paul Klimsch and Ottilie Roederstein . He started with Dutch interiors and scenes from popular life, which heralded his fondness for light problems. The light was always decisive for his painting . Influenced by his travels, he then painted southern motifs. Later he came to a powerful open-air painting , but without, like Impressionism, dissolving the form through the light. Of course, his work also included portraits . He represented an unconventional and free conception of art contrary to the largely prevailing academy style of his era, so he became a pioneer of modernity .

Glaspalast (Munich)

Rudolf Gudden has shown his pictures in the Glaspalast (Munich) since 1889 , regularly at his residence in Frankfurt as well as in other former West German art cities and since 1897 also repeatedly in Paris. Exhibitions of his works can be proven in Berlin 1888 and 1889, Vienna 1894, Dresden 1901 , 1904 and 1912, Wiesbaden 1909, Darmstadt 1910, Bonn and Rome 1911, Bremen 1912, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mannheim 1913. The Ludwig Schames art salon in Frankfurt organized a collective exhibition in 1913 on the occasion of his 50th birthday. In the 1920s, the city of Frankfurt am Main made the Lichtenstein House , which it had renovated, available to the Frankfurt art world. Rudolf Gudden used the house as a living room and gallery for exhibition purposes. There were other exhibitions in Stuttgart in 1914 and Frankfurt in 1926. Many of his works were burned with the Glaspalast in Munich, the exhibition building on the grounds of the Old Botanical Garden in downtown Munich during the Second World War . Rudolf Gudden was a member of the German Association of Artists .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Gudden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 04028 Rudolf Gudden , registration of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Gudden, Rudolf ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 on August 10, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Gudden, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gudden, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Werneck
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1935
Place of death Munich