RUDOLF MATHER, Urban landscape:Church of Saint Maurice (Olomouc), ORIGINAL ETCHING 1940s

Spezification  

Continent: #Europa #Czechoslowakia

Motive: #urban landscape

Artist’s Main Feature: #Born in provincial Moravia in the German municipality of Olomouc, RUDOLF MATHER (1891–1975) was an academic Czech artist who received his solid art education at the art academies in Vienna and Prague. Due to belonging to the war generation of painters he expressed the trauma of the war in his works. He opted unambiguously for realism to strive from the start to express the reality of the everyday life of the poor people in his country as he objectively saw or subjectively imagined it. He is known as a famous graphic artist and book illustrator and also as the author of numerous etchings with views of Prague and provincial cities, its monuments and historical buildings. He was a representative of realistic art and the founder and organiser of German artists in Moravia. After his exile in 1945, he worked as a teacher in the high school in Neu-Ulm, where he already did not create.

Subject: #Urban landscape # the ancient street probably in Olomouc 

Age: #1940s

Medium: #etching

Land: #Czechoslowakia 

Originality: # Original etching

Signature: signed by the author with a pencil

Size (in mm): 

The overall size is ca. 340 x 245 

The image size is ca. 270 x 185

Size (in inches): 

The overall size is ca. 13 x 10 

The image size is ca. 11 x 7

Condition:

Grading: Good 

Corners: Good 

Writing to back: No

Writing to front: Signature

Stains on front: No 

Stains on back: No

Creases or bends: No 

Tears: No 

Pinholes: No

Artist#Engraver:  Rudolf Mather (1891–1975) is a Czech artist, draftsman, engraver, and art teacher who had German ancestry from Olomouc. Born in the tailor's family, who immediately had a job in the church of St. Michal as a parishioner and had moved to the little towns of Horní město u Rýmařova in Olomouc, Rudolf Mather graduated from a high school, where he was excellent in drawing, and then had started to study at the Vienna Art Academy, where he was already highly rated during the course of his studies. The First World War ended his studies. In 1915 he was accepted as a volunteer in the army and then he took part in the train in Serbia and Montenegro. In the autumn of 1916, he got to Russia where he got astonished in captivity. The cruelty of the war-affected his life and mental state. He returned home from captivity in 1918 and in the following year education at the art academy ended with the state examination. He began his career as a teacher of drawing in Olomouc and also dedicated himself to the organisation of the artistic life in Moravia. He was a founder of the Metznerbund, Kreisvorstand Olomouc, as a division of the Association of German Artists in Czechoslovakia, although this organisation was not a nationalist. Its contribution to improving exhibition activity in Moravia is remarkable. In 1925 he moved to Moravská Třebová, where he continues to work as a high school teacher. As a teacher, he influenced some young artists here as Egon Kügler. He was mainly concerned with the technique of drawing, wood engraving, etching and drypoint, lithography and watercolour. After being exiled from 1945 to 1956, he worked as a teacher at the high school in Neu-Ulm, where he already failed. At the end of his life, he was blind and he died in Blauberen after a serious illness. As for his creation, at the beginning of his career, he would have been under the influence of Art Nouveau. At a later time, he received realism and impressionism. The painter's work was permeated by a sentimentality of divinity, social feelings and anti-war irritations. Between wars, he devoted time to the landscapes and urban landscapes of Moravia.