Rudolph Richly

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Rudolph Richly (also: Rudolf Richly ; born January 9, 1886 in Ödenburg ( Hungarian Sopron ), † January 11, 1975 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter of landscapes, vedute , genre and still life .

Richly's grave in Vienna's central cemetery

Life

Richly's role models were French painters, especially Henri Matisse , Pierre Bonnard and Marc Chagall .

Richly came to Vienna in 1921 after he had passed the secondary school Matura and had studied for two semesters at the Academy in Budapest (otherwise he was self-taught ).

At the exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists, Wiener Heimatkunst, Vienna in 1933, he showed the watercolors “Aulandschaft”, “Wasserlandschaft”, “Landschaft im April”, “Colored Houses” and “Beim Lainzer Tiergarten”. Until 1938 he was a member of the “Wiener Brücke”. In 1947 he became president of the Association of Visual Artists, in 1948 co-founder of the "New Hagenbund ", of which he was first president until 1952. In 1952 he became a member of the Vienna Secession and took part in all of its exhibitions, in 1969 he became a member of the “Burgenland Artists Group”. Up to 1969 four personal exhibitions of the Vienna Secession were dedicated to him, in 1971 he was represented with two paintings at the exhibition of the Vienna Secession in London . From 1957 to 1971 he exhibited annually in Paris , in the last few years in the Arlette Chabaud gallery.

In 1972, the Burgenland State Gallery, Eisenstadt , dedicated a personal exhibition of 69 works to him , which Richly described as a return to his homeland , Burgenland . In 1974 the Secession presented paintings from 1950–1974 .

Posthumously the Neue Galerie, Vienna, organized a Richly exhibition in 1986 for the artist's 100th birthday. His grave is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 163, row 13, number 21) and was dedicated to Richly in October 2017 by the City of Vienna as an honorary grave.

Awards, honors, prizes

  • Painter Prize of the Vienna Art Fund (1954)
  • Grant from the Ministry of Education and the City of Vienna (1954)
  • Klimt Award of the Vienna Secession (1969)
  • Silver Medal in New York (1969)
  • Gold medal in Nice (1969)
  • Professional title Professor (1971)

literature

  • Richly, Rudolf. Tagblattarchiv. Three sheets. 1953-1986, OBV . (Press reviews).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Homecoming of Rudolph Richly . In: Burgenland freedom . XLII. Volume, No. 49/1972, p. 28. - Full text online ;
    Rudolph Richly (Ill.): Rudolph Richly. Paintings. State gallery in Esterházy Palace, November 24, 1972 to January 14, 1973. Office of the Burgenland State Government (cultural department), Eisenstadt 1972, OBV .
  2. ↑ Rudolph Richly (Ill.): Paintings 1950–1974. Vienna Secession, April 2 to 24, 1974 . Tusch, Vienna 1974, OBV .
  3. ↑ Rudolph Richly (Ill.), Alfred Schmeller (text): Rudolph Richly. 1886-1975. For the 100th birthday. Neue Galerie, Vienna 1986, OBV .
  4. ^ Rudolf Richly in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Richly, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richly, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landscape, vedute, genre and still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Ödenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1975
Place of death Vienna