Rudolf Scharpf

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Rudolf Scharpf (born April 21, 1919 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein; † October 25, 2014 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Rudolf Scharpf spent childhood and youth in his home town of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In 1935 and 1936 he attended the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and the Free Academy in Mannheim, where he studied with Albert Henselmann . From 1936 to 1937 Rudolf Scharpf was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris. After his return to Ludwigshafen, he worked as a freelance artist. Work and military service followed from 1939 to 1943. The first exhibition participations in Ludwigshafen began in 1946. From 1957 to 1962 the artist lived with his family in Spain and in 1963 he established a second residence in south-west France. In 1975 he made extensive trips to Mexico and the USA.

The donation of the parents' house in the Ludwigshafener Hemshofstraße, as well as all works created between 1945 and 1970 to the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein as the Rudolf-Scharpf-Foundation, took place in 1977 with the stipulation of the conversion to the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie as well as the representation of one's own and one's Work of others. The Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie is assigned to the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum and is administered by this and a board of trustees. Much of the artist's work over the past few decades, including his paintings, is in temporary storage in the gallery building.

Rudolf Scharpf last lived in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

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Girl's head, 1962. Woodcut

Rudolf Scharpf was best known as a wood cutter. In fact, the artist had deepened and renewed the expressive possibilities of the woodcut - but not without dealing with many other techniques of sculpture. Rudolf Scharpf's work ranges from early clay sculptures to extensive graphic works, wooden panels, book illustrations and portfolios to large-format paintings from recent decades. Despite the diversity of his work, which can hardly be systematized in terms of quantity, an unmistakably unique style pervades the artist's entire oeuvre - in terms of both expression and form, a handwritten cipher. Works by the artist are in public and private ownership.

Insel, 2006. Oil, 80 × 120 cm
Rotation, 2006. 80 × 100 cm

Exhibitions and publications (selection)

  • 1946 First participation in exhibitions in Ludwigshafen
  • 1947 First woodcut portfolio
  • 1947–1952 Publication of the sheets for graphics and poetry , from 1946 called signatures .
  • 1948 First solo exhibition in the Günther Gallery in Mannheim
  • 1949 member of the Palatinate Secession
  • 1957 It is possible that there will be a thunderstorm , Alexander Xaver Gwerder , Nachgelassene Prosa, with four woodcuts by Rudolf Scharpf ( ISBN 3-257-01676-X )
  • 1958 Exhibition in Johannesburg
  • 1968 Exhibition in the Galérie du Fleuve, Bordeaux
  • 1969 Exhibition in the Seifert-Binder Gallery, Munich
  • 1969 Publication of portfolios by Senator Kohl-Weigand in St. Ingbert, donation of 1500 sheets to the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • 1972–1976 Creation of large-format plastic, graphical and pictorial wooden panels
  • 1973 Scientific-artistic project at the State Clinic for Psychiatry in Klingenmünster / Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1977 Exhibition in the Zehnthaus-Jockgrim
  • 1981 Foundation z. Promotion of art id Pfalz (Ed.), Lina Staab , poems, linocuts by Rudolf Scharpf (50 copies numbered and signed by Lina Staab and Rudolf Scharpf)
  • 1983 The odyssey in the cyclone , Dieter Wyss , with 19 linocut prints by Rudolf Scharpf, ISBN 3-7953-0770-8 .
  • 1989 Heinrich Lenhardt (Ed.) Rudolf Scharpf, woodcuts / drawings / color sheets, Kaiserslautern
  • 1995 Rudolf Scharpf, woodcuts and wooden panels, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (ed.), ISBN 3-89422-084-8 .
  • 2007 Eskapade , anniversary exhibition for the 30th anniversary of the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie
  • 2009 “Leaves from the last few years”, anniversary exhibition for the 90th birthday, Herrenhof, Neustadt / Mußbach
  • 2013 “Herbstlaub”, works on paper (1990 to 2012), exhibition in the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Since its inception, the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie has organized solo exhibitions by the artist at regular intervals.

Awards and honors (selection)

  • German Art Prize (Blevin Davis Prize), Munich (1949)
  • Travel grants from the Rheinisches Kulturinstitut (1950, 1952, 1953)
  • Ströher Prize (1955)
  • Palatinate Prize for Graphics (1955)
  • Prize of the Association of Palatinate Artists (1984)
  • Willibald Gänger Prize, Jockgrim (1988)
  • Invitation as guest of honor at Villa Massimo / Rome by the Ministry of Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate (1996)
  • Awarded the Maximilianstaler by the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (2006)

literature

  • Rudolf Scharpf: woodcuts and wooden panels; a retrospective 1947–1994 , exhibition in the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, March 24th - May 7th 1995, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern 1995, ISBN 3-89422-084-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Scharpf, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2014
Place of death Ludwigshafen