Rudolf Wachter (sculptor)

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Woodhenge (2000). Weingarten City Park
Raumknoten (1978/2003), Neuenkirchen (Lüneburg Heath)
Chalamy kopto (1969)
Winthir Fountain

Rudolf Wachter (born April 1, 1923 in Bernried, district of Neukirch , Bodenseekreis ; † June 16, 2011 in the Auensiedlung , Munich ) was a German wood sculptor .

Life

After an apprenticeship in his parents' carpenter's workshop and his master's examination, Wachter had to go to Russia as a soldier in World War II , where he was seriously wounded and lost a leg. In 1946 he did an apprenticeship as a wood carver in Oberammergau . From 1949 to 1956 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master student of Josef Henselmann . His wife Ulla also studied there. From 1965 to 1967 Wachter lived with his wife and their five children in Greece, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1967 at the Goethe Institute in Athens. A scholarship took him to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough , New Hampshire , in 1971 . From the 1970s until old age, Wachter almost exclusively created large-format, abstract wooden sculptures with a chainsaw. As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Rudolf Wachter took part in a total of 23 large annual DKB exhibitions between 1970 and 1997.

In 1995, Wachter was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Since 2003 he has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

It was not until late that Wachter's art also found attention in his Upper Swabian homeland: in 1993 with an exhibition in Ravensburg , in 2000 with the installation of a monumental tree trunk sculpture in the city garden of Weingarten, and in particular in 2005 with the opening of the Rudolf Wachter Museum in the New Palace in Kißlegg .

Wachter lived and worked in Munich, where his wife helped him “with the hand-built construction of a pyramid-shaped house made of steel and concrete that remained Wachter's fortress for a lifetime”.

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with (K).

  • 1967 Goethe Institute, Athens
  • 1984/1985 Haus am Gasteig, Munich (K)
  • 1987 Gallery Blom & Dorn, New York
  • 1991 City Gallery Cham; Municipal Gallery Art Association Rosenheim (K)
  • 1992 Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl (K); Art forum Rottweil
  • 1993 Municipal Gallery, Ravensburg
  • 2000 Rudolf Wachter - Woodhenge . Gallery in the Prediger , Schwäbisch Gmünd (K)
  • 2003 Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich (K)
  • 2008 Wachter wood sculpture . Old Town Hall, Schweinfurt , January 24 to March 23, 2008 (K)
  • 2010 STATIONS: Monika Huber and Rudolf Wachter - an artistic encounter . Städtische Galerie Rosenheim , January 29 to March 14, 2010 (K), Neue Galerie Dachau , September 18 to October 31, 2010, and Goethe-Institut , Athens, February 9 to March 13, 2011; ROOM SCHNITTE: Sculptures by the wood sculptor Rudolf Wachter . St. Paul Church , Munich, April 28 to September 10, 2010
  • 2016 Art Karlsruhe Galerie Wohlhüter, solo exhibition as part of the Open Art Munich Galerie Rieder
  • 2017 Exhibition at Neues Schloss Kißlegg together with works by Rupert Eder

Working in public space

Two diagonal cuts , Munich

literature

  • Birgit Jooss: Rudolf Wachter - Broken Space. In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Edited by G. Ulrich Großmann, Nürnberg 2010, pp. 300–301.
  • Rudolf Wachter - From the tribe . September 12 to November 9, 2003, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Hirmer, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-7774-9980-3 .
  • Wachter, Rudolf . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 120-121, 190-191, 294-295 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 8, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Birgit Kölgen: A strong art does not need polishing - the wood sculptor Rudolf Wachter, who came from Lake Constance, died at the age of 88 . Schwäbische Zeitung, June 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ adbk.de: Professor lists / Honorary Members and Honorary Senators (PDF file, p 18; accessed June 8, 2016)
  4. ^ Rudolf Wachter - Woodhenge . Museum im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 8th Sep. - Nov. 26, 2000
  5. ^ Rudolf Wachter in Schweinfurt . Museums of the City of Schweinfurt, 2008
  6. ↑ STATIONS ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Monika Huber and Rudolf Wachter - an artistic encounter. Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, January 29 to March 14, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerie.rosenheim.de
  7. ^ Stations: Monika Huber and Rudolf Wachter - an artistic encounter; Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, January 29-14, 2010 at Wäcker-Babnik, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030148-3 . Neue Galerie Dachau, September 18 to October 31, 2010 (exhibition folder)
  8. ^ Gottfried Knapp: German language, German art . Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 11, 2011
  9. ↑ ROOM SCHNITTE : Sculptures by the wood sculptor Rudolf Wachter. St. Paul , Munich, April 28 to September 10, 2010
  10. ^ Rudolf Wachter: Konkav-Konvex (1979) , Munich - illustration
  11. ^ Rudolf Wachter: Torre Pendente (1987) , Munich - illustration
personal data
SURNAME Wachter, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernried, district of Neukirch , Lake Constance district
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2011
Place of death Auensiedlung , Munich