Ruth Rogers-Altmann
Ruth Rogers - Altmann ( * 1917 in Vienna as Ruth Karplus ) is a painter and fashion designer living in New York and Long Iceland.
Life
Ruth Karplus grew up as the daughter of Else and Arnold Karplus, a renowned architect who planned the council Ditteshof among others, in Vienna. Your parents and they lived at first in the 8th district, where building officer and expert Karplus had his studio, and inhabited from 1933 to 1938 in 1910 by Adolf Loos for Lilly and Hugo Steiner designed and inhabited by them until 1927 Steiner House in Vienna's 13th district ( Hietzing ), part of the district sub - St. Vitus, St. - Veit-Gasse 10
Ruth had from childhood contact with architects and artists who made and received in the home of her parents. She was first a student of the run of Eugenie Schwarzwald private school, attended after they had moved with her parents to Hietzing, the location in their new residential district school Wenzgasse, the Vienna Women's Academy and competed at the School of Applied Arts, where she with Albert Paris Gütersloh could study.
In her youth she met in Austria in the Mathias Zdarsky ski school skiing. There was initially learned using the method to master the curves with a single long stick. Later she went decades in Alta (Utah ) Ski and painted there also.
After the "Anschluss " of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, she did not return from a stay in Prague to Vienna, but traveled to New York. Her brother Gerhard took refuge in 1938; the parents came to 1939. Except for her brother Hans, who emigrated to South America, sooner or later, the whole family came to New York.
In September 1938 Ruth Karplus married in the United States Martin Rogers, in his third marriage in 1964 Hans Altmann, the first son of 1938 as driven to emigrate Viennese textile industrialist Bernhard Altmann (?); he had passed his Matura in high school Fichtnergasse in Vienna Hietzing.
Works
Rogers - Altmann's work shows a connection to the symbolism and abstract painting. The technology developed by their vibrant hues coloramic and circle symbol exudes a unique allure.
In Stanford University and Alf Engen Ski Museum at Utah Olympic Park works of Rogers - Altmann are seen.
Awards
- 2008: Golden Medal of Merit of the City of Vienna