Rudolf Horacek

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Rudolf Horacek (* 1915 in Mannswörth ; † 1986 in Maria Gugging ) was an Austrian visual artist .

From 1981 he lived and worked in what is now the House of Artists of the Art / Brut Center Gugging in Maria Gugging, Lower Austria . His work is primarily received under the Art brut categorization , which, however, is subject to constant discussion in the art-historical discourse.

Life

Horacek became a patient in 1949 in what was then the Gugging sanatorium . In 1979 he started drawing there at the request of and encouraged by other clients. In 1981 he belonged to the group of patients who moved to the “Center for Art Psychotherapy” founded by the psychiatrist Leo Navratil , which is now the House of Artists . This was followed by his participation in numerous international exhibition projects.

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Rudolf Horacek created a small oeuvre of only a few hundred sheets. At the center of his work were drawings of human heads, which he executed with pencil and occasionally with colored pencils or colored them with accents. These head representations are structured like a grid. Horacek filled the grids with different hatching, text elements and rows of numbers that build up in layers and give the impression of spatial depth. The word “Horacek in Mannswörth” appears again and again.

Horacek is the creator of the painting “Horacek Rudolf in Mannswörth”, which became its figurative mark when the museum gugging opened in 2006.

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1980: Leo Navratil Collection , New Gallery of the City of Linz Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum , Linz.
  • 1982: The artists from Gugging , Heidelberger Kunstverein , Heidelberg.
  • 1984: Gugging , Collection de l'Art Brut , Lausanne.
  • 1987: Autour de Gugging , L'Aracine, Neuilly sur Marne.
  • 1990: Gugging. Œuvres récentes , Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne.
  • 2007: blug. 4 decades of art from Gugging , museum gugging , Maria Gugging.
  • 2009: gugging.! in Vienna , Bank Austria Kunstforum , Vienna; gugging classics 2nd! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging.
  • 2011: gugging classics 4th! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging; gugging classics 3rd! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging.
  • 2013: small formats.! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging; weltallende - august walla and the artists from gugging , Koroška galerija likovnhi umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec.
  • 2014: gugging masterpieces.! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging; Faces from Gugging , art gallery fürth , Fürth.
  • 2018–2021: brain feeling.! art from gugging from 1970 to the present, museum gugging , Maria Gugging.

literature

  • Peter Baum: Positions of Drawing in Austria. Linz 1979.
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Guggging. The artists from Gugging. Maria Gugging 1993.
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): CAROM! Art from Gugging in the Essl Collection. Klosterneuburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-902001-01-6 .
  • Leo Navratil: Art brut and psychiatry (Volume 1) / The artists and their works (Volume 2), compendium, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-85447-876-8 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Sovären. The House of Artists in Gugging. Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg 2004. ISBN 978-3-89904-127-9 .
  • Roger Cardinal: m3. Arnulf Rainer et sa Collection d'Art Brut. Ghent 2005.
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Blug. gugging - a place of art. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-902510-91-4 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Small formats! Drawings by the artists from Gugging. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-3324-8 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Gugging masterpieces! Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3334-7 .
  • Brigitte Reutner (Ed.): Art brut from Gugging. The Leo Navratil Collection and subsequent acquisitions. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-903131-84-2 .
  • Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher: brain feeling! art from gugging from 1970 to the present. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Baumann: Art Brut? Outsider Art? Figure of thought and assertion. In: Art Bulletin. 2001, accessed March 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Johann Feilacher: Rudolf Horacek . In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling! art from gugging from 1970 to the present . 1st edition. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 .
  3. ^ Roman Gerold: Visiting the artists in Gugging. In: The Standard. August 2, 2018, accessed March 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Horacek, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannswörth
DATE OF DEATH 1986
Place of death Maria Gugging