Rudolf Schönwald

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Rudolf Schönwald (born June 30, 1928 in Hamburg ) is an Austrian painter , graphic artist , caricaturist and draftsman .

Life

Rudolf Schönwald was born in Hamburg to Austrian parents. He attended elementary school in Salzburg from 1934 to 1938. From 1938 he lived in Vienna. Due to the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1943 he had to flee to Hungary, where he survived as a camp prisoner and as a submarine. In 1945 he returned to Vienna, graduated from high school in 1948 and took drawing lessons from Charles Lipka. From 1948 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Joseph Dobrovsky and Christian Ludwig Martin . From 1955 he ran a litho workshop in Vienna together with Georg Eisler , Alfred Hrdlicka and Fritz Martinz . There were lithographs for Candide and in 1957 etchings for The Adventures of Captain Singleton and in 1964 for Gargantua and Pantagruel . In 1965 work on the woodcut cycle König Ubu began .

From 1968 to 1974 he designed the comic strip Goks for the magazine NEUES FORVM . His wife Gilly Hillmayr wrote the lyrics. In addition to his graphic work, he also designed ceramic murals. Schönwald also designed sets, in 1989 for the song play Mahagonny , The Seven Deadly Sins (Ballet) by Brecht / Weill and didactic play by Brecht / Hindemith for the studio of the Vienna State Opera .

From 1976 to 1993 Schönwald was professor for visual design at the Technical University in Aachen .

Since around 1985 he has been exploring the decaying industrial regions of the surrounding area by drawing from Aachen, thus tackling his late major work of industrial drawings, which he continues to pursue worldwide as a Piranesi of the Borinage .

Awards

Schönwald received prizes at the graphics biennials in Lugano , Ljubljana , Liège and Vienna .

  • In 1950 he received the Golden Függer Medal
  • 1965 the prize of the Theodor Körner Foundation
  • 1966 the promotion award of the city of Vienna
  • 1966 the Ex-Aequo-Prize at the Graphics Biennale Bianco e Nero , Lugano
  • 1969 the grand prize of the 1st Liege Graphic Biennial
  • 1971 the Austrian State Prize for Graphics
  • 1976 the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts
  • 1998 Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna
  • 2010 the Slavi Soucek Prize

Exhibitions

  • 1957 Vienna Secession , Vienna
  • 1964 Galerie next St. Stephan , Vienna, etching cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel
  • 1965 Galerie Welz , Salzburg
  • 1967 Gallery of the Graphic Society, Stockholm
  • 1968 Galerie Würthle, Vienna
  • 1969 Participation in the exhibition Figur , Zentralsparkasse, Vienna
  • 1969 Carr House Gallery of the Rhode Island School of Design
  • 1970 Kunstverein Palette, Freiburg,
  • 1973 Bloch Gallery, Innsbruck
  • 1974 Basilisk Gallery, Vienna
  • 1975 Kulturhaus Graz, Graz
  • 1982 Gallery at the Stubenbastei, Vienna
  • 1983 Rupertinum , Salzburg, relocation and exhibition of the ceramic mural Bestiary
  • 1986 Städelschule , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1987 Museum Commanderie van Sint Jan, Nijmegen
  • 1989 gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck
  • 1989 Museum of Modern Art, Palais Liechtenstein , Vienna
  • 1989 Albertina , participation in the exhibition Sixty - Drawings of a Generation
  • 1991 Belgian House, Cologne
  • 1991 Morat Institute, Freiburg
  • 1996 Ulysses Gallery, Vienna: Pulvis et Umbra Sumus
  • 1997 Rupertinum , Salzburg
  • 1998 Morat Institute, Freiburg: industrial drawings
  • 1998 Mahagonny-Projeccions , Universitat Pompeu Fabra , Barcelona
  • 1999 Flora Gallery, Innsbruck
  • 2005 Heiligenkreuzer Hof , University of Applied Arts Vienna , Scream of Metals. Industrial cathedrals
  • 2007 Val-St-Lambert Monastery , Seraing near Liège, Cri des métaux - Cathédrales d'acier
  • 2008 Morat Institute, Freiburg
  • 2008 Exhibition rooms of the Authority for Monument Protection, Budapest: industrial drawings
  • 2012 Essl Collection , industrial drawings
  • 2013 Gallery of the municipal museum, Eisenhüttenstadt: industrial drawings , industrial photographs (Clemens Schülgen)

literature

  • Gerhard Amanshauser : Foreword. Catalog Galerie Velz, Salzburg 1965.
  • Otto Breicha : Foreword. Catalog Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 1966.
  • Otto Breicha: A call to distrust. Salzburg 1967.
  • Karl Diemer: Rudolf Schönwald. Or the usurpation of the deserts. Figur, Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1969.
  • Kristian Sotriffer : How different they are - born in 1928. Die Presse, Vienna 1968.
  • Reinhard Priessnitz : portrait (fragment). Catalog Kunstverein Palette, Freiburg im Breisgau 1970.
  • reinhard priessnitz: 1st continuation ... end of 1974 . Catalog Kulturhaus Graz 1975.
  • Wolfgang Wunderlich: master of graphics. The trivial and monstrous - on Rudolf Schönwald's world of images. The art, Munich 1971.
  • Gilli Schönwald: Foreword to Goks. Published by Peter Bloch, Innsbruck 1979.
  • Paul Flora : A stranger from Vienna in comic land. The time No. 8/1980.
  • Otto Breicha: Foreword. Catalog Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen 1984.
  • Michael Pfeiffer: Schönwald the narrator. Catalog Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen 1984.
  • Hans van der Grinten : The woodcuts by Rudolf Schönwald. Catalog Museum Commanderie van Sint Jan, Nijmegen 1987.
  • Theo Buck (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Rudi Schönwald. Aachen 1988.
  • Hans Holländer: The physiognomic view. Festschrift for Rudolf Schönwald. Aachen 1988.
  • Fritz Hermann : Different ways to represent Rudolf Schönwald. Catalog Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1989.
  • Dieter Schrage : Comments on new works by Rudolf Schönwald. Catalog Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1989.
  • Antonia Hoerschelmann: sixty - drawings of a generation. Catalog Graphic Collection Albertina, Vienna 1989.
  • John Sailer: Foreword. Catalog Pulvis et Umbra Sumus. Ulysses Gallery, Vienna 1996.
  • John Sailer: Pulvis et Umbra Sumus. Catalog Pulvis et Umbra Sumus. Ulysses Gallery, Vienna 1996.
  • Heimo Kuchling : A drawn world of death. Catalog Pulvis et Umbra Sumus. Ulysses Gallery, Vienna 1996.
  • Erich Hackl : The haughty iron and his dream. Catalog cry of metals. Industrial cathedrals. Publisher Anton Pustet, Salzburg-Munich 2005.
  • Hans Holländer: Workshop landscapes. Expeditions into the industrial age. Catalog cry of metals. Industrial cathedrals. Publisher Anton Pustet, Salzburg-Munich 2005.
  • Britta Schinzel (Ed.): For Rudi on his 85th birthday. Freiburg 2013 (with contributions by Friedrich Kurrent , Eva M. Morat, Luigi Blau , Ditha Brickwell, Clemens Schülgen, Joachim and Hanna Buchwalder, Erich Hackl , Karin Bergmann-Blau, Maria Wirth, Wolfgang Burgmair, Britta Schinzel, Irmtraud and Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen , Karl Georg Zinn ).
  • Britta Schinzel (Ed.): Rudolf Schönwald - Graphic tells , Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna-Berlin 2018.
  • Heidrun Rosenberg (Ed.): Rudolf Schönwald. Art in the Cold War , Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Galerie Ulysses: Rudolf Schoenwald, pulvis et umbra Sumus. Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85127-016-9 , p. 35.
  2. ↑ Erich Hackl: The haughty iron and his fantastic. In: Rudolf Schönwald: Scream of the Metals. Industrial cathedrals. Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg / Munich, ISBN 3-7025-0520-2 .
  3. ↑ Natasa Konopitzky: From day to day architecture of decay Ö1, March 7, 2012
  4. ↑ Andrea Schurian: Ruins and Pocket Apocalypses The Essl Museum is showing industrial drawings by Rudolf Schönwald, Der Standard, March 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Schönwald, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg