Rudi Wach
Rudi Wach (born November 22, 1934 in Hall in Tirol ) is an Austrian painter and sculptor .
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life and work
Rudolf Wach, known as Rudi Wach, grew up in Thaur in Tyrol and attended the Innsbruck Federal Trade School. There his first teacher was Hans Pontiller . This was followed by studies at the Brera Art Academy in Milan with Marino Marini . He took decisive impulses from Hans Pontiller and his friends Alberto Giacometti and Mario Negri . He has lived and worked in Milan , Innsbruck and Pietrasanta since 1955 , known for its marble quarries.
Christological or human-animal themes play a major role in his work . Since the 1970s he has been developing his graphic oeuvre parallel to sculpture.
A crucifix that was intended for the Innsbrucker Innbrücke could not be erected in 1986 due to protests from the Catholic side, as Wach had depicted Christ without a loincloth. It was only set up in September 2007 by decision of the Mayor of Innsbruck, Hilde Zach .
Awards
- Year? Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class
- Year? Cross of Merit of the state capital Innsbruck
- 2015 Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol
Works
- Great Sphinx , Innsbruck, 1981
- Innbrücken-Kreuz , Innsbruck, completed in 1986, erected in 2007
- Eagle flight shadow fountain , Innsbruck, 1993
- Run of the creatures , drawings, reliefs, sculptures in the Museumsquartier underground station , Vienna, 2001
- Sculpture, Ungargasse 33 in Vienna-Landstrasse
Exhibitions
- 2006: Rudi Wach: Inside - Seismograms of the body soul. Melk Abbey
- 2009: Rudi Wach: Triumph of the fall. Kunsthaus Nexus , Saalfelden. (Exhibition on the occasion of the 75th birthday).
Publications
- Rudi Wach - Works on the Sphinx, exhibition catalog Galerie Maier Innsbruck 1982
- Rudi Wach- The Germ of Things, with an essay by Christian Sotriffler, editor of the Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna 1992
- Rudi Wach - The Origins of Form, Rabalderhaus Schwaz 1995
- Rudi Wach- Sculture e disegni 1956-2000, Musei Civici Villa Manzoni, Lecco 2000
- Dal profondo le creature di Rudi Wach, Forum austriaco di cultura, Milan 2002
- Il germe delle cose - Rudi Wach, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan 2002,
- Rudi Wach-Inner Seismograms of the Body Soul. Exhibition catalog, Melk Abbey 2005-2006
- Rudi Wach-La Danza del Nulla, Grafie dell'Essere , Forum austriaco di cultura, Milan 2006
- Life germ and wing being. Sculptures and drawings 1956–1996. Exhibition catalog, Innsbruck 1996.
- Once I was a hand, sculptures and drawings, exhibition catalog Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 2010
- Rudi Wach - Die Weisse Kapelle , essays by Carlo Invernizzi, Kristian Sotriffer, Maria Vailati, Elmar Zorn, TILAK 1994
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudi Wach in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ buchhandel.de ( 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. Literature on the painter Anton Tiefenthaler , brief information on the author Rudi Wach, accessed on October 22, 2009
- ↑ Gunter Bakay: Rudi Wach's Innbrückenkreuz . To the story of a faded excitement. In: Tiroler Kulturberichte 2013/14, special issue “Art in Public Space”, pp. 111–115
- ^ Controversial cross erected on Innbrücke , tirol.orf.at of September 22, 2007
- ↑ Wiener Linien ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Run of the creatures in the underground station Museumsquartier, Wiener Linien No. 150/2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wake up, Rudi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wake up, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hall in Tirol |