Rudolf Schoofs

Rudolf Schoofs is one of the most renowned German artists of the post-war period. Starting out from the gesturally emphasised art of Art Informel, Schoofs found his own independent pictorial language over the years. Both landscape scenes and cityscapes can be found in his work, which plays with abstraction and figuration. This exciting combination of the geometric and the organic characterised the aesthetics of Schoof’s oeuvre right up to his most recent works.

From 1952 to 1954, the artist studied under the former Bauhaus master Georg Muche in Krefeld, whose assistant he later became. Schoofs initially taught at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule in Kassel, then at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal. In 1975, he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, and a year later at the Academy in Stuttgart. Schoofs has received numerous awards for his work, including the Eduard von der Heydt Prize of the City of Wuppertal in 1969, the Prize for Critical Graphics in Hanover and the Culture Prize of his native town of Goch.