Rudolf Raimund Ballabene

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Rudolf Raimund Ballabene (born February 19, 1890 in Zurndorf , † August 22, 1968 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter , sculptor and ceramist .

Life

After studying philosophy, linguistics at the University of Prague , Ballabene turned to journalism after the First World War , and landscape painting around 1930. During the time of National Socialism , his works from the 1920s and 1930s were confiscated and are now almost completely lost. From 1943 Ballabene was banned from working. After the Second World War he settled in Vienna, where he quickly became known as an artist. From the mid-1960s, his works are more abstract .

"The picture surface is completely activated and offers a concert simply in the accumulation of explosive layers of paint as well as in the direction and changing strength of powerful brush and spatula strokes ..."

- Munich Mercury 1959

literature

  • Ballabene, Rudolf Raimund . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 267 .
  • Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Tusch, Vienna 1974–1980, p.
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters born in 1881–1900. Volume 1: A-L . Self-published, Vienna 1976, p.?.

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personal data
SURNAME Ballabene, Rudolf Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, sculptor and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurndorf
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1968
Place of death Vienna