Rudolf Jakubek

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Rudolf Alois Jakubek (born October 5, 1902 in Königsberg an der Eger , † November 21, 1968 in Bayreuth ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Rudolf Jakubek, son of the father of the same name, who was also a graphic artist, studied theater studies with Artur Kutscher and art history with Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich in 1922/23 . From 1923 to 1927 he attended the master classes with August Brömse at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . From 1933 to 1938 he worked as an art teacher in Teplitz . Drafted for military service in 1939, in 1945, after the end of World War II, he was interned by the Czech authorities. In 1948 he and his family ended up as expellees in a refugee camp in Bindlach near Bayreuth. From 1953 until his death in 1968 he lived and worked in Laineck .

Rudolf Jakubek's method of representation is objective and aphoristic. He often reinterpreted themes of mythological iconography in fantastic, realistic pictorial creations. As an accomplished draftsman, he mostly used pen and ink, pencil and wooden pen. Rudolf Jakubek is one of the founders of the Free Group Bayreuth . The Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg preserves a large bundle of his works, consisting of landscapes and visions, book illustrations, etc. a. Eulenspiegel, Simplizissimus, Woyzek.

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) . Volume II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 19.
  • Karlsbader Newspaper. 20, 1970.
  • Sudeten German newspaper. 6th December 1968
  • I. Toman: My home. Karlsbad 1932, pp. 206-210.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffi Dippold: Bittersweet. Jakubek exhibition in the town hall . In: Nordbayerischer Kurier . February 7, 1989.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Jakubek Memorial Exhibition: 1902–1968; December 1970 - February 1971, Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg . Regensburg 1971.
personal data
SURNAME Jakubek, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jakubek, Rudolf Alois (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg on the Eger
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1968
Place of death Bayreuth