Rudolf Wacker (1893 - 1939) Austrian
Charcoal on Paper
Measure 23"in H x 16 1/4"in W and 27 1/4"in H x 20 1/2"in W with frame
Biography: Rudolf Wacker (Bregenz 1893 - 1939 Bregenz) was a landscape, still life and portrait painter, and was considered one of the most important European artists of the years between the two world wars. He was an Expressionist* and a major representative of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in Germany and Austria. In 1909, Wacker began his studies by attending the College for Commercial Drawing in Bregenz, Austria, and in 1910, the Bauer School of Industrial Drawing in Vienna. From 1911 to 1914, Wacker was at the Academy of Art in Weimar studying under Albin Egger-Lienz and Walter Klemm. In 1914, he was drafted into the Tyrolean Imperial Rifles Regiment, and one year later, captured in Poland by the Russians and imprisoned in Siberia for nearly five years. By late in the year, political repression increased, and the Gestapo began house searches and interrogations. Wacker name appeared on a list of suspected communists”, and after being served with a search warrant he suffered a heart attack during questioning. He recovered and his health improved for a short time, but soon after being summoned to a hearing before the Gestapo, he had a second heart attack and died at his parens home in Bregenz in 1939. Wacker was a man with a marked gift for thoughtful reflection and rigorous self-examination. This is proved by a voluminous diary in which he recorded his condition as a man and painter. On an artistic level this trend to introspection corresponds to the genre of the self-portrait, and Wacker created quite a few during his lifetime. In this respect, Rudolf Wacker has to be named with the great self-portraitists of the twenties and thirties, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Ernst Kirchner and Oskar Kokoschka.
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