Rudolf Vent

Rudolf Vent (born February 24, 1880 in Niedergrunstedt near Weimar; † August 15, 1948 in Weimar ) was a German landscape painter .

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Rudolf Vent was born on February 24, 1880 as the son of a farmer. After attending primary school, he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Weimar in 1894. As a result of an accident in which he lost his left hand, Rudolf Vent had to stop training after two years. Through the mediation of the teacher and pastor of his home village, he was initially able to work as a file clerk in various law firms. Due to his talent for drawing, he was given a free position at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar (plaster class) around 1900 and after a year went on a journey. His path led him to West and South Germany via Switzerland to Italy. Landscapes and experiences found their graphic implementation in the sketchbook he carried with him. Around 1905 he returned to Niedergrunstedt and worked until 1914 as a decorative and theater painter because the income from his artistic work did not allow him to live freely. In addition, he attended courses at the Weimar drawing school by the painter Eduard Weichberger , who was one of the first students at the Weimar Art School, founded in 1860, and who recognized and promoted Vent's talent, his great sensitivity for colors and moods in nature. With the outbreak of World War I, Rudolf Vent was conscripted and belonged to a court martial in Belgium. After 1918 he worked for a short time as an administrative clerk in Weimar. In 1919 he finally decided to live as a freelance painter. In the 1920s he regularly took part in the exhibitions of the Weimar Art Association, which took place in the Donndorfmuseum (today the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia ). 1947 Participation in one of the first exhibitions of Thuringian artists after the end of the war in the partially destroyed New Museum in Weimar.

With his painting, Vent was completely in the tradition of the Weimar School of Painting . Spiritually and stylistically, he felt obliged to the painter Karl Buchholz , whom he particularly admired . He was collegially connected with various Weimar painters, a. a. Fritz Lattke , Alfred Ahner and Siegfried Kötscher. Rudolf Vent found his motifs all his life in the forest landscapes and the villages of Thuringia.

Numerous pictures are privately owned, a forest landscape donated to the city hangs in the Weimar town hall.

Father of the painter Hans Vent , grandfather of the Weimar painter Peter Vent.