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Wilhelm Rudolph, Sitzender Schäferhund Sitting shepherd dog with raised ears, woodcut in grey on strong Japanese paper, around 1940, signed "W. Rudolph" in pencil below the image on the right and inscribed "Handdruck" on the left, remains of old mounting on the reverse and slightly browned in the upper area, image dimensions approx. 25 x 16 cm. Artist information: actually Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph, German painter, draughtsman and woodcutter. Painter, draughtsman and woodcutter (1889 Chemnitz - 1982 Dresden), 1903-07 apprenticeship and work as textile pattern draughtsman and later lithographer in Chemnitz, 1907-14 studied at the academy in Dresden, 1911 travelled through Italy, 1914-18 military service, 1918-20 studied again at the academy in Dresden under Robert Sterl and master student of Carl Bantzer, 1920-32 freelance in Dresden, from 1924 member of the Dresden Artists' Association and the "Rote Gruppe", participation in exhibitions 1924-25 at the Galerie Emil Richter, Dresden and the Galerie Goldschmidt & Wallerstein, Berlin as well as in 1931 at the Galerie "Neue Kunst Fides" Dresden made him famous and led to his appointment as a professor at the Dresden Academy in 1932, defamed as "degenerate" in 1933, from approx. 1937 de facto banned from exhibiting and selling and dismissed as professor at the Dresden Academy in 1938 for political reasons, 1945 destruction of almost his entire artistic oeuvre during the air raid on Dresden, 1946-49 again professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, subsequently freelance, member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, important representative of the "Dresden School", received numerous honours, including in 1961 and 1980 the National Art Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany. including the National Prize of the GDR in 1961 and 1980, honorary citizenship of Dresden in 1979 and honorary citizen of Chemnitz in 1982, active in Dresden, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR", student lists of the Dresden Academy and Internet.

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Wilhelm Rudolph, Sitzender Schäferhund Sitting shepherd dog with raised ears, woodcut in grey on strong Japanese paper, around 1940, signed "W. Rudolph" in pencil below the image on the right and inscribed "Handdruck" on the left, remains of old mounting on the reverse and slightly browned in the upper area, image dimensions approx. 25 x 16 cm. Artist information: actually Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph, German painter, draughtsman and woodcutter. Painter, draughtsman and woodcutter (1889 Chemnitz - 1982 Dresden), 1903-07 apprenticeship and work as textile pattern draughtsman and later lithographer in Chemnitz, 1907-14 studied at the academy in Dresden, 1911 travelled through Italy, 1914-18 military service, 1918-20 studied again at the academy in Dresden under Robert Sterl and master student of Carl Bantzer, 1920-32 freelance in Dresden, from 1924 member of the Dresden Artists' Association and the "Rote Gruppe", participation in exhibitions 1924-25 at the Galerie Emil Richter, Dresden and the Galerie Goldschmidt & Wallerstein, Berlin as well as in 1931 at the Galerie "Neue Kunst Fides" Dresden made him famous and led to his appointment as a professor at the Dresden Academy in 1932, defamed as "degenerate" in 1933, from approx. 1937 de facto banned from exhibiting and selling and dismissed as professor at the Dresden Academy in 1938 for political reasons, 1945 destruction of almost his entire artistic oeuvre during the air raid on Dresden, 1946-49 again professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, subsequently freelance, member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, important representative of the "Dresden School", received numerous honours, including in 1961 and 1980 the National Art Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany. including the National Prize of the GDR in 1961 and 1980, honorary citizenship of Dresden in 1979 and honorary citizen of Chemnitz in 1982, active in Dresden, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR", student lists of the Dresden Academy and Internet.

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