Rudolf Kraus (artist)

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Rudolf Kraus (center) working on the lead inlays

Rudolf Kraus (born December 8, 1907 in Trautenau , † May 5, 1988 in Crimmitschau ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Rudolf Kraus studied from 1926 to 1928 at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau . In the following year he came to Chemnitz , where he was initially unemployed and was naturalized in 1930. He married in 1933, but the marriage remained childless. From 1939 to 1945 he did military service. Kraus stayed in Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt where he worked as a freelance artist from 1936 until his death. He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Kraus produced numerous works of art in public spaces, such as the murals in the reception hall in the old Chemnitz main train station , which were removed in 1956, or the graffiti on the kindergartens Wiesenstrasse (sundial) and Reichenhainer Strasse (fairy tale characters) in Chemnitz. He also designed the giant graffito on the house of the master painter Karbe in Freiberg . Many of his works, such as the stonemason relief on the “Güldenen Bock” in Chemnitz's Rosenhof or the overhead portals above the sales facilities in the Street of Nations , were lost after reunification .

Works

Lead inlays in the Chemnitzer Brückenstraße
Graffito at the kindergarten Wiesenstrasse (sundial) by Rudolf Kraus
Graffito at the Reichenhainer Straße kindergarten (fairy tale characters) by Rudolf Kraus
  • 1939: Mural in the common room of the state high school for boys, Waldenburg (Glauchau district)
  • 1954: Old Elisabeth. Oil, Freiberg City and Mining Museum , inventory number: 53/160
  • 1956: portrait painting Georgius Agricola. Oil, Humboldt Agricola bookstore in DAStietz
  • 1964/1965: lead inlays in Chemnitzer Brückenstraße in collaboration with Robert Diedrichs , Rudolf Fleischer and Johannes Belz
  • 1972/1973: Collecting for the Bergparade I. Acrylic on wood glazed, Aue, art collection of Wismut GmbH , inventory no .: 9080845, old inventory no .: 80 129 720
  • 1972/1973: Collecting for the Bergparade II. Acrylic glazed on wood, Aue, Art Collection of Wismut GmbH, inventory no .: 9080848, old inventory no .: 83 500 610

Exhibitions

  • 1947: Second exhibition of Erzgebirge artists. Freiberg
  • 1948 to 1958: Central Saxon art exhibition. Karl Marx City
  • 1959, 1960 and 1961: Art exhibition of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district.
  • 1963: Exhibition 10 Years of Architecture, Fine Arts and Visual Folk Creation in Karl-Marx-Stadt.
  • 1969: Art and Sports Art Exhibition . Leipzig

literature

  • Kraus, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 113 .
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 478 .
  • Günter Meissner (ed.): General Künstlerlexikon , bio-bibliographic Index A-Z . tape 7 . Verlag Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-24562-6 .
  • Freiberg City Council, Public Education Office; Kulturbund zur Demokratie. Renewal of Germany, Freiberg district (Ed.): 2nd exhibition of Erzgebirge artists: 1947, Freiberg in Saxony; Painting, graphics, plastic; June 7th - August 1947 in the City and Mining Museum . City and Mining Museum, Freiberg in Saxony 1947, DNB  810482665 .
  • Association of visual artists of Germany, district of Karl-Marx-Stadt (Hrsg.): Central Saxon art exhibition. Associated with the art award of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . DNB  023999640 (publication period: 1948–1958).
  • Our portrait: Rudolf Kraus . In: look . No. 44 , October 30, 1963, ZDB -ID 1139743-3 , p. 4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Wetzel: About the painter Rudolf Kraus . In: Chemnitz Roland . No. 2 , 2007, ISSN  1430-5941 , p. 27 .
  2. ↑ St .: We introduce: Rudolf Kraus . In: look . No. 9 , March 1, 1967, ZDB -ID 1139743-3 , p. 4 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Trautenau
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1988
Place of death Crimmitschau