Rudolf Ortner

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Rudolf Ortner, 1975

Rudolf Ortner (born May 31, 1912 in Nuremberg ; † November 11, 1997 in Munich ; full name: Rudolf Maximilian Ortner ) was a German architect , construction clerk and university professor who also worked as a painter and photographer .

Life

From 1932 to 1933 Ortner studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin, where he was a student of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Ludwig Hilberseimer , Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers . After the forced dissolution of the Bauhaus by the Nazis , he studied from 1933 to 1936 at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar Architecture and in 1935 painting and stage design . He completed his studies with the award of the academic degree "Diplom-Architect".

After graduating, he worked as a freelance architect for the Magdeburger Land-Feuersozietät insurance company until 1939 and was also a lecturer at the State Engineering School in Magdeburg.

From 1939 to 1945 he was a soldier in World War II .

In 1946 he was appointed to the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar. From 1948 until his flight to West Germany in 1951 he was director of the state engineering school in Gotha.

From 1952 to 1976 he worked as a freelance architect. He was best known for his numerous sports buildings, which also earned him a lot of international recognition. During this time he was also a professor at the Technical University of Munich , at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the University of Augsburg . In addition, he was a lecturer at the Bavarian Sports Academy and head of the state advice center for gymnastics and sports facility construction in Bavaria.

After the architecture office closed, he devoted himself exclusively to painting and photography from 1977 until his death.

Rudolf Ortner was married to Annalies Bach (1912–2008), a great-granddaughter of the portrait painter and court musician Johann Philipp Bach from the well-known Bach family . Their daughter Monika Ortner-Bach later became a curator .

architecture

Sports buildings (selection)

Fonts (selection)

Students of Rudolf Ortner (selection)

Painting and photography

Exhibitions (selection)

Catalogs for solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • Rudolf Ortner: Architecture and painting between tradition and modernity; Monika Ortner- Bach ; I. Holzapfel Verlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-926098-10-8 .
  • Rudolf Ortner: Bauhaus student 1932–1933, architect 1936–1976, painter and photographer 1977–1997; Monika Ortner-Bach; I. Holzapfel Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-926098-08-5 .
  • More than a mere purpose: Mies van der Rohe at the Bauhaus 1930–1933; Bauhaus Archive, Berlin, 2001
  • Magdalena Droste, Jeannine Fiedler: Experiment Bauhaus. The Bauhaus Archive Berlin (West) visits the Bauhaus Dessau. Kupfergraben Verlag , Berlin 1988.
  • The exemplary architect. Mies van der Rohe's architecture lessons 1930–1958 at the Bauhaus and in Chicago. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung , Berlin 1986.
  • Collection catalog (selection): architecture, design, painting, graphics, art education; Gebrüder Mann Verlag , Berlin 1981.

Book publications (selection)

  • Bauhaus Archive Berlin: Museum of Design / the Collection; Magdalena Droste, Karsten Hinz, Klaus Weber, Christian Wolsdorff; Senate Berlin Museum Education Service, Berlin, 1999

Works in collections (selection)

Works in art libraries

  • Artothek Munich
  • Artothek Nürnberg eV
  • Art in Wertingen

TV appearance

  • Erfurt conversation, 30-minute interview on the Bauhaus anniversary, MDR , 1994

estate

  • The architectural legacy (drawings and building files) is in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, the architecture books from Rudolf Ortner's library were handed over to the DAM library.
  • The other written estate is in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum - German Art Archive in Nuremberg.
  • The painterly and photographic estate is at Art Consulting | Monika Ortner-Bach in Munich.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Ortner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Maria Wingler : The Bauhaus. 1919–1933 Weimar, Dessau, Berlin and the successor in Chicago since 1937 . DuMont Literature and Art Verlag , Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7153-3 , p. 555 .
  2. ^ Architecture lessons under Mies van der Rohe 1930–33 ( Memento from January 6, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Doris Schmidt: Poet of the Constructivists. On the death of the Bauhaus artist Rudolf Ortner. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 14, 1997.
  4. ^ Rudolf Ortner - Bauhaus student, architect and painter. (No longer available online.) In: meisterhaeuser.de. City of Dessau-Roßlau; Office for Culture, Tourism and Sport & Masters' Houses Dessau, archived from the original on April 3, 2009 ; Retrieved March 30, 2009 .
  5. ^ Friends of the Bauhaus University Weimar eV - Rudolf Ortner in the "Haus am Horn". In: uni-weimar.de. Freundeskreis der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar eV, accessed on May 13, 2009 .
  6. ^ Kapfenberg - cultural center - gallery - Rudolf Ortner. In: kapfenberg.at. Kulturzentrum (KUZ) of the city of Kapfenberg, accessed on May 3, 2009 .
  7. ^ Rudolf Ortner - Bauhaus student, architect and painter - special exhibition in the Schlemmer Masters' House. (No longer available online.) In: meisterhaeuser.de. City of Dessau-Roßlau; Office for Culture, Tourism and Sport & Masters' Houses Dessau, archived from the original on April 3, 2009 ; Retrieved April 5, 2009 .
  8. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Albers & Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tate.org.uk
  9. ↑ FORUM KONKRETE KUNST eV - artist directory. In: forum-konkrete-kunst-erfurt.de. FORUM KONKRETE KUNST eV, accessed on May 13, 2009 .
  10. ↑ ARTOTHEK Nürnberg eV - Fine art from L to O. In: artothek-online.de. ARTOTHEK Nürnberg eV, accessed on April 5, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Ortner, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortner, Rudolf Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, construction officer, university professor, painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1997
Place of death Munich , Germany