Rupert Rothböck

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Rupert Rothböck (born July 13, 1909 in Mauerkirchen , † December 18, 1983 in Braunau am Inn ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Live and act

Rothböck was born the son of a master shoemaker and attended the wood sculptor school in Hallstatt. He studied with Anton Hanak and Albert Bechtold at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and left it in 1937. The Nazi administration refused him his diploma. His oversized works, which he had deposited at the Academy in 1938 after completing his studies due to lack of space, later served the acting management as evidence of the degenerate spirit of the Bechtold School. A certificate issued by Albert Bechtold for his pupil was not officially recognized.

During the Second World War he was a teacher at the Federal College for Wood Processing in Hallstatt , as he was not suitable for military service because of his curvature of the spine. He later taught occupational therapy in the Bad Ischl military hospital.

He designed a number of art-in-building works in the region around Braunau , where he wanted to do justice to his clients with his decorative sculptures , but did not follow up on his promising academy work.

From 1951 he lived and worked in Braunau, where he set up his studio and apartment on Aloys Wach's property. Rothböck's works are abstract cubist figures and reliefs that transform the human body into geometrical fragments. Where there are curves, there are sharp edges or circle segments without the sculptures becoming totally abstract. His works are mostly in the possession of the public sector, which repeatedly awarded him orders. He was inspired in his work by Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol, among others .

He belonged to the artists ' association MAERZ , the Upper Austrian Art Association and the Innviertel artists' guild.

Works (selection)

  • Sculpture children making music
  • Sculpture oversized nude (1937)
  • Sculpture The Good Samaritan in the St. Josef Hospital in Braunau am Inn
  • Sculpture Sankt Wolfgang in Braunau at the transition to the Old Inn Bridge
  • Relief of the prodigal son in the staircase of the Gratitude Church in Braunau am Inn
  • Statue Christophorus with child at the Brunnbachbrücke in the Untermarkt in Mauerkirchen

literature

  • Herbert G. Brandtstetter: Rupert Rothböck. To commemorate the 100th birthday of the important sculptor , in: Das Bundwerk. Series of publications by the Innviertler Kulturkreis, Heft 24, 2009, pp. 52–55.
  • Hans Fink: Rupert Rothböck died , in: Neue Warte am Inn, born in 103 (1983), No. 51/52, yearbook of the Innviertler Künstlergilde 1983/84, Ried im Innkreis, 1984, pp. 76-77.
  • Hans Fink, Hans Plank: Rupert Rothböck 1909 to 1983 , catalog, Innviertler Künstlergilde, Braunau 1986, 23 sheets.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Larger-than-life nude by Rupert Rothböck , in: Bezirksrundschau Braunau am Inn, gallery
  2. ^ Ingrid Adamer: Albert Bechtold 1885–1965, Vienna, 2002 p. 259 f.
  3. ^ Children making music in Braunau am Inn, in: Web presence of secondary school 2 in Braunau
  4. ↑ An anniversary exhibition in memory of Rupert Rothböck, in: OÖN of July 30, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Rothboeck, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Wall churches
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1983
Place of death Braunau am Inn