Rudolf pride

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Rudolf Stolz (born May 8, 1874 in Bozen , † August 7, 1960 in Moos ) was a South Tyrolean painter and creator of graphics and frescoes .

Life

Rudolf Stolz studied in Munich in 1896/1897 at Walter Thor's private school and attended anatomical lectures at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts . He lived and worked first in Bozen and from 1943 in Sesto .

Like his brothers Ignaz Stolz (1868–1953) and Albert Stolz (1875–1947), he was a Defregger emulator. His daughter, Margarethe Stolz-Hoke , was married to the painter Giselbert Hoke from 1954 to 1985 , became a landscape and portrait painter and lives in Carinthia.

During the First World War, Rudolf Stolz worked with his brother Albert from 1915 to 1916 as a war painter in the Bozen Standschützen Battalion on the Italian front near Riva on Lake Garda , where they made a number of drawings and watercolors . These views had been created as an official war diary, but at the same time an unofficial "picture diary" was created that described the actual occurrences without glorifying the war.

In the 1920s, his pictures were part of the traveling exhibition, which was shown in Gelsenkirchen in several German cities in 1925 and was then shown in the Vienna Secession . His main work are the cemetery frescoes ( dance of death ) at the Sexten cemetery (1924).

In addition to Ignaz Stolz, it was primarily Rudolf Stolz who managed Albin Egger-Lienz's artistic legacy . Egger-Lienz, with whom he only met once, praised his work, so that the well-known architect Clemens Holzmeister chose him for the design of the “Drei Zinnen” hotel in Sesto, built between 1929 and 1931. “When Rudolf Stolz paints it, I don't need to see a draft.” These frescoes are only open to hotel guests.

In 1940, Pride was awarded the Mozart Prize by Gauleiter Franz Hofer in the Aula Magna of the University of Innsbruck for his works that were acceptable to the National Socialist rulers, which were also shown at the “Gau-Kunstausstellung Tirol-Vorarlberg” of the same year . For the shooting of the South Tyrolean Standschützen , which Nazi Gauleiter Hofer opened in Bruneck on May 13, 1944 , Stolz created the disk of honor , which “shows the district town of Bruneck in front of a landscape, a couple in traditional Pustertal costume, holding the hands of a field-gray soldier offers ".

After the Second World War , Stolz became a member of the South Tyrolean Artists Association founded in 1946 . A primary school in Bolzano is named after Rudolf Stolz.

Awards

Works (selection)

Rudolf Stolz Museum

A retrospective can be found in the Rudolf Stolz Museum in Sesto, which opened in 1969. In two showrooms it mainly shows plan sketches and drafts for the numerous frescoes as well as studies, watercolors and graphic works.

Characterizations

“... the Bolzano brothers Ignaz, Albert and Rudolf Stolz ... they were also favored by the public, their expressive conciseness and their sometimes very strong artistic temperament led their work to a mature perfection, as is the case with the frescoes in The cemetery of Sexten and the facade of the Amonn House on Bolzano Town Hall Square , both by Rudolf Stolz, show impressively. ”(Othmar Parteli)

“The compositions of the painter [Rudolf Stolz] show a deep connection with the people, the folk and customs of the homeland. But that means that they also contain genuine Germanness. "(Kurt Pichler)

Detail from the dance of death fresco by Rudolf Stolz (Sexten cemetery)

literature

  • Südtiroler Künstlerbund (Ed.): Rudolf Stolz. Life and work. Amonn, Bolzano 1960.
  • Giselbert Hoke : Rudolf Stolz. Life and work of the painter Rudolf Stolz. With photos by Jörg Abuja and a list of works and references. Board of Trustees of the Rudolf-Stolz-Museum, Sexten around 1962.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Parteli: History of the State of Tyrol. Volume IV / 1. Verlag Athesia, Bozen 1988, p. 270.
  2. ^ Margarethe Stolz Hoke: Monograph. Heyn publishing house, Klagenfurt 2006.
  3. ↑ The war painter Brothers Stolz. (Italian) Retrieved March 21, 2018
  4. ↑ Eva Kreuzer-Eccel: Departure. Painting and graphics in north-east South Tyrol after 1945. Athesia Verlag, Bozen 1982, p. 19.
  5. ^ Quote from Clemens Holzmeister after Giselbert Hoke: Rudolf Stolz. Life and work of the painter Rudolf Stolz. With photos by Jörg Abuja and a list of works and references. Board of Trustees of the Rudolf-Stolz-Museum, Sexten around 1962.
  6. ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol , Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 165, 174-175 .
  7. ↑ Soldiers of the homeland: “Führer, a German tribe is fighting for you and Germany here too!” In: Bozner Tagblatt . May 14, 1944, p. 3 ( digitized version [accessed on May 9, 2020]).
  8. ^ Website of the primary school "Rudolf Stolz", Haslach / Bozen
  9. ^ Gert Ammann , Carl Kraus: Calendar 1997 of the Südtiroler Sparkasse.
  10. ^ Sights in South Tyrol → Rudolf-Stolz-Museum on italien.com, accessed on August 22, 2017.
  11. ↑ http://www.provincia.bz.it/Museenfuehrer/deutsch/ausgabeseite.asp?ORGA_ID=681  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.provincia.bz.it  
  12. ^ Kurt Pichler: Ceremonial handover of the Mozart Prize 1940. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten. Edition of November 4, 1940, p. 5 (quoted from Kraus / Obermair: Mythen der Diktaturen , p. 175).
personal data
SURNAME Proud, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Tyrolean painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1960
Place of death Sexten