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RUDOLF HRADIL

Rudolf Hradil was born in 1925 in Salzburg where he also lives. From 1947 to 1951 he studied under Robin C. Anderson, A. P. Gütersloh and Herbert Boeckl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During term vacations he took lessons from Anton Kolig in Carinthia, the most renowned representative of the “Nötsch Circle”.

The painter Rudolf Hradil at the Naschmarkt in Vienna

From 1951 to 1952 Rudolf Hradil had a grant to study in Paris and used it to attend Fernand Léger’s private school. 1959 – 1960 he attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London where he perfected the techniques of etching and of lithography. In 1963 he received a grant to study in Rome and in 1965 was awarded a scholarship by the Max Beckmann Society in Murnau and Frankfurt am Main. Initially Hradil was mainly preoccupied with drawing, graphic design and with the medium of oil painting but from 1964, influenced by the Bauhaus artist Max Peiffer-Watenphul, he turned increasingly to watercolour. He became a recognised master of this technique, a distinction otherwise shared in Austria only by Kurt Moldovan and Gottfried Salzmann. In the years 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1989 Hradil taught at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg (in the classes for etching and watercolour painting). In 1989 he was awarded a scholarship by the DAAD in Berlin.

Rudolf Hradil, Porta San Giovanni, Rome

Hradil’s works are exhibited in leading galleries and museums in Austria and abroad and he is represented in the most important public and private art collections in Austria, Germany, Italy and France. He has compiled several portfolios, the latest being: Flowers, colour lithographs and Venice, colour lithographs.

A number of publications are devoted to the artist, for instance
Hradil, Drawings, Salzburg 1993, Rudolf Hradil, Oil paintings, Salzburg 1995, Hradil, The Poetry of Cities, Paris 2000 and Rudolf Hradil Watercolours: Still life – Cities – Landscapes, Munich 2000.