Rudolf Lodes
Rudolf Lodes (born June 5, 1909 in Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate , † May 18, 2006 in Nieder-Modau ) was a German doctor and artist .
Life
After graduating from high school in Amberg , Lodes applied for a place at the Munich Academy in 1929 . After the rejection, he finally enrolled in art history in Würzburg, but later switched to medicine. This was followed by studies in Würzburg, Erlangen, Munich and Danzig.
In 1938 Lodes returned to Munich as an orthopedist and worked as a specialist at the medical university clinic. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht with military service. In 1942 Lodes was wounded in Orel, Russia. Hospital stays followed, u. a. also in Amberg and in the Rasthaus am Chiemsee. Fortunately, Lodes became a department doctor in the Rasthaus am Chiemsee in 1943, where he stayed until the end of the war. From 1945 he was employed as an assistant doctor at the Munich orthopedic clinic. From 1953 until his retirement at his own request in 1973, Dr. Lodes at the Munich Orthopedic Supply Center, a facility for the care of war victims.
In addition to his professional activity, Lodes devoted himself to painting from around 1954, mainly in oil. In 1969 he started creating graphics. He now preferred to work with stickels and printing blocks than with a brush.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Rudolf Lodes ended his artistic activity because of his advanced age. The autodidact had created around 700 oil paintings and 3,500 etchings, woodcuts and linocuts.
Rudolf Lodes also wrote a number of books that, in addition to medical topics, deal with his homeland Auerbach. At the age of 90 he published his autobiography.
In his hometown of Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate , where Lodes also has his final resting place, a Lodes Museum (old coin in the castle courtyard) with oil paintings and graphics by this artist was opened in June 2012.
Fonts
- Small town stories from the Upper Palatinate . Self-published.
- Nine times ten years 1909–1999 - In the field of tension between medicine and art . Autobiography. Uni-Verlag, Munich.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lodes, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2006 |
| Place of death | Nieder-Modau |