Special

Rudolf Hradil
Special

Rudolf Hradil is represented with numerous drawings in the Strabag Artcollection. On the occasion of the new publication of the book Rudolf Hradil / Vienna we show a selection of his Vienna drawings and present at the vernissage on 07.09.2012 , 18:30 clock the book just published by Müry Salzman Verlag.
In this volume, Friedrich Achleitner and Friedrich Kurrent, as childhood friends, focus primarily on the person Rudolf Hradil, Achleitner primarily on the essence of his drawing art, and Matthias Boeckl, since a first publication on the drawings very familiar with the style and subject matter of the artist, casts the eye of the connoisseur and critic on this view of the metropolis of Vienna. The fascinating novelty of this illustrated book is the equal juxtaposition of small and larger unadorned and free sketches and large closed drawings.

In Rudolf Hradil's extensive oeuvre, drawings have occupied a firm place from the very beginning. Since an early stay in London, his sketchbooks accompanied him on all his travels. Whether it was Paris (where he got to know Fernand Léger's unusual new view of the big city) or New York, Rome, Berlin or Vienna. Longer stays in the early nineties enabled him to devote himself exclusively and more extensively to Vienna. And he approached the city from its edges, the Gürtel, the Vienna of the suburbs and the suburban trains, which naturally led him again and again to Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn buildings. After excursions to Schönbrunn or to the Belvedere, to the Naschmarkt and the Secession, the Apollo cinema or the gallop racecourse in the Freudenau, he wandered through a large part of the representative Ringstrasse buildings and finally reached, as the center of the city, St. Stephen's Cathedral.

RUDOLF HRADIL

April 1, 1925 born in Salzburg
1947-1951 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with R. C. Andersen, A. P. Güters-loh and H. Boeckl; in summer stays with A. Kolig in Nötsch/Carinthia
1951-1952 Paris scholarship, attends the school of F. Léger
1959-1960 Attends the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, begins to work with the etching technique
1965 Scholarship of the Max Beckmann Society in Murnau
1981, 1982, 1984 Head of the etching class at the International Summer Academy Salzburg
25. October 2007, died in Vienna; grave at the cemetery in Anif

Exhibitions

1955
Künstlerhaus Salzburg

1958
Kunstverein Braunschweig

1961
Museum Carolino Augusteum (Salzburg)
Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt (Salzburg)
Museumspavillon im Mirabellgarten (Salzburg)

1964
regelmäßig Galerie Welz (Salzburg)

1969
Istituto Austriaco di Cultura (Rom),
seit 1969 regelmäßig bis 1988
Galerie Würthle (Wien)

1970
Atelier Gerersdorfer (Wien)

1971
Kunstkabinett Platanenallee (Berlin)
Galerie Thomas Flora (Innsbruck)

1974
Galleria Leonardo (Bozen)

1975
Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Wien)

1980
Austrian Cultural Forum (früher: Austrian Institute) (New York City)

1982
Galerie Boisserée (Köln),
Kunstakademie und Staatliche Kunstgalerien Istanbul,
Ankara, Izmir,
Bursa

1984
Neue Galerie (Wien),
Galerie Athesia (Bruneck)

1985
Graphische Sammlungen Rupertinum (Salzburg)

1986
Galerie Schmücking (Basel),
Vigadò Galerie (Budapest)

1987
Galerie Schmücking (Braunschweig)

1989
Galleria Goethe (Bozen),
seit 1989 Galerie Vita (Bern)

1991
Galerie Judith Walker (Hermagor)

1992
seit 1991Galerie Contact (Wien),
seit 1994 DAAD Galerie Kairo und The Cairo Art Gallery (Kairo)

1995
Museum Carolino Augusteum (Salzburg)

1998
Galerie Ammering (Ried)

1999
Galerie Tiller + Ernst (Wien)

2000
Galerie Flak (Paris)

2001
Graphische Sammlungen Rupertinum (Salzburg),
Galerie Wolfrum (Wien)

2004
Galerie Thomas Flora (Innsbruck),
Galerie Wolfgang Exner (Wien)

2005
Galerie im Traklhaus (Salzburg),
Galerie Wolfrum (Wien)

2007/08
Galerie Welz (Salzburg)

2008
Galerie Thomas Flora (Innsbruck)

2009
Galerie Maier (Innsbruck)

2010
Sonderausstellung Rudolf Hradil,
Antiquitäten Anton Figl,
Antiquitätenmesse Wiener Künstlerhaus

2011
Galerie Wolfrum (Wien)
Salzburg Museum

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