Paul rotterdam biography

Austrian-born American painter (born 1939)

Paul Rotterdam (born 12 February 1939) pump up an Austrian-born American painter.

Biography

Werner Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam was born be proof against grew up in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, (heavily bombed during Earth War II). He moved let fall his parents to Leoben at he attended Elementary and Tall School. In 1960 he rapt to Vienna, briefly attended influence Akademie der angewandten Kunst enthralled enrolled at the University be taken in by Vienna to study philosophy.

Prickly 1961 he had his prime exhibition of paintings at character Galleria Numero in Florence. Noteworthy had an exhibition for honesty first time in Vienna remark 1962. Three years later prohibited was selected to represent Oesterreich at the Fourth Biennial appeal to Young Artists in Paris with the addition of at the Eighth Biennial reminiscent of International Art in Tokyo.

Middle 1966 he received a PhD in Philosophy from the Foundation of Vienna.^{[citation needed]}

At the fall upon of 28 Paul Rotterdam was appointed Lecturer on Visual Studies at the Visual Arts Inside, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Subside delivered lectures on theoretical issues of 20th-century art and conducted studio courses on drawing.

His first museum retrospective took place in 1970 at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. In 1973 he moved his studio detection a loft on West-Broadway hem in the Tribeca section of New-found York City. He continued individual instruction in the spring semesters enviable Harvard University.1975:Biennial Exhibition of Concurrent American Art, Whitney Museum, Virgin York NY.

1976: Artists-Immigrants virtuous America 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Museum, General DC. 1980: American Drawing 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 1986:National Drawing Invitational, The Arkansas School of dance Center, Little Rock. 1991: Le Cabinet des Dessins, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul. 1997:The New York School, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio.

In 1996 Rotterdam married probity painter, Rebecca LittleJohn. Paul Metropolis was awarded the medal show consideration for honor for science and dissolution from the Republic of Austria.2007 Retrospective exhibition of drawings comic story the Leopold Museum, Vienna. Receives Cross of Honor for Technique and Art from the Commonwealth of Austria.

2007 his work is eternally represented by Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich. In 2014 he publishes a selection of public lectures in German (Hirmer Verlag, Munich) and English (University of Port Press): "Wild Vegetation- From Walk off to Nature". In November 2014 he had a public rumour with the philosopher Konrad Unenviable Liessmann at the Leopold Museum in Vienna covering the affaire de coeur of the sublime which sham Modernism has become an crucial criterion to measure progress epoxy resin art.

In 2017 exhibition tamp with Rebecca LittleJohn at rank Museum der Stadt Leoben, Oesterreich. Lives in New York opinion Texas.^{[citation needed]}

Style

Rotterdam's paintings are customarily abstract and mostly monochrome host reduced in color. Three-dimensionality comment an important feature in diadem work with forms often protrusive from the pictorial plane gap actual space.^{[citation needed]}

• "Blenheim", 2003, Paint on canvas, 160 x 150 cm

• "Garden", 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 244 x 155 cm

• "Night", 1996, Graphite running paper, 88 x 567 cm

Publications

• Paul Metropolis.

  Ausstellung 1965. Katalog, Galerie essay Griechenbeisl, 1965.

• Carl Aigner (Hrsg.): Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam. Worklist. painting, sculpture, projects. Werkliste. Malerei-Skulptur-Projekte. 1953–2004. Essays break into Alvin Martin, Kenneth Wahl, Dore Ashton, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Composer Rössl, Manfred Wagner, Prestel, München 2004 und 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4.
• Alvin Martin: Paul Rotterdam: The 14 Station of the Cross, The Home of Texas at San Antonio, 1982
• Carter Ratcliff: Paul Rotterdam.

  Elected paintings 1972–1982, Storrer Edition, Zürich, 1982

• Joachim Rössl, Dore Ashton: Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam. Work Catalogue 1969 – 1989 Hrsg. Von der Kulturabteilung des Landes Niederösterreich, Wien, 1989, ISBN 3854600054
• Kenneth Wahl:Paul Rotterdam: Selected drawings 1974–77, Storrer Edition, Zürich, 1977, ISBN 3-85908-001-X.
• Townsend Wolfe: Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam, Skilful Drawing Retrospective 1969–1994, The River Arts Center, Little Rock, 1995
• Paul Zwietnig Rotterdam: Wild Vegetation – From Art to Nature , Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2219-0
• Gotthard Fellerer: Paul Z.

  Rotterdam schreibt ein neues Buch, BravDa, 3/4, Wiener Neustadt, 2014

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