Rudolf Bredow

Rudolf Bredow ( born November 2, 1909 in Berlin, † November 17, 1973 in Bremen ) was a German painter of the post- expressionism and illustrator, set designer, art teacher.

The lifework Bredow has become posthumously known. It includes about 1,000 documented work ( watercolors, colored chalk drawings, oil paintings, figurines ) and many previously unpublished drawings. " Bredow's best works are superior in its simplicity and balance of classic and schwarzrandigen watercolors of the late Schmidt- Rottluff example artistic equal and often. ".

Life

1930-1934 studies at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin with the graphic artist Hans Orlowski (1894-1967), the costume and set designer Harold Bengen and the Max Kaus ( 1891-1977 ). Upon completion of training painter and graphic artist for film, advertising, fashion and theater in Berlin. With Bolislav Barlog friends, known by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt- Rottluff. 1940 - 1942 Art and drawing teacher in Berlin, followed by service in the Wehrmacht. 1949 teacher and costume design, painting and drawing at the Städt. College for textile industry and fashion. 1952 - 1954 teacher of drawing at the Vocational School in Berlin -Neukölln, 1954 Head of the Skizzierkurse dressmakers Guild Berlin. Since 1955, private and state- schools as an art teacher working ( Bad Sachsa 1955-1956; Langeoog 1957-1958; Hinterzarten 1959 Oberhausen 1961-1964, 1966-1971, 1964-1966 Bad Honnef, Schwarzenberg Palace from 1971 to 1973, since 1973 Staatl. Goettingen Home Schooling Esen / Ostfriesland). Bredow died on November 17, 1973 during an eye surgery in Bremen. Burial in Nienburg. The estate passed through Bredows decision of the District Court of Aurich (1976 ) in the possession of Walter Sofie († 2005), Nienburg. In 1989, the art collection Tumulka (Munich ) a larger part of the works Bredows. The written legacy of the painter is kept in the collections of the Archives of Fine Arts of the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg since 1992.

Artistic development

Bredow is one of the artists of the lost generation born around the turn of the century, found by the turmoil of two world wars and the dictatorship of art by the Nazis to no development, after 1945 would have fit into the abstraction or the Informal. Bredow attacked when he returned to work after 1945, first on the modes of representation of cubism and abstraction, primarily expressionism back, from which he developed his own postexpressionistische form of expression that began to consolidate since about 1955, and since about 1960/61, until his untimely death in 1973 led to an artistic, mature and independent late work.

He was concerned less about the reproduction of a particular subject. Thematically he preferred as a draftsman sketching the observation of nature and fabulierende figuration in the foreground, as a watercolorist, the compressed view experience of landscape or still life, into the oil paintings, the representation of an idealized, sometimes abstracted type of woman. The color chalk drawings (1955 - 1969) figurative subjects, including Christ and saints dominate.

Travel played a major role in Bredow's artistic development. 1941 and 1949 he lived on the Baltic Sea, 1957-1958 on the North Sea ( Langeoog). In 1955 he undertook at the invitation of Flensburg shipowner Consul Thomas Entz a Mediterranean cruise to Algeria, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. In the museums of Paris (1939, 1958-1973 ) he encountered the works of the masters of modern art. In Spain (1958-1967), Italy (1964-1971) and Ticino (1959, 1972) inspired him nature and landscape.

Ideological precipitation found the travel impressions in the travel diaries ( Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg ) and the watercolors: Scenic places, mountains, coastal landscapes, harbors with boats, fruits and flowers, rare, however, people. Influenced by looking for typical designs they give over and over again by the longing for color and harmony expression. Discovered Especially with the watercolors Bredow increasingly the color as a medium to create his works, which are in particular those of its mature phase characterized by an increase of spontaneity in conjunction with a real riot of color. They bring the tensions between bright, sometimes even glowing colors and just contoured forms expressed. In his colored chalk works and oil paintings Bredow also examines the abstraction of the objective and reminds it to the geometrical form language was by Werner Gilles and the abstract expressionism of Ernst Wilhelm Nay.

Exhibitions (selection)

Bredow has his work life only once issued (1954 participation in a group exhibition in the Art Office in Berlin -Wilmersdorf ). Attention experienced the work only through posthumous exhibitions:

Works

Bredow's own works, inter alia Städt. Art Collection Chemnitz; Staatl. Galerie Moritzburg Halle; Vatican, Rome; Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Written estate is kept in the archives of Fine Art in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.