1932 Goch on the Lower Rhine – 2009 Stuttgart
„New York“, 1982/83
155 x 200 cm
Oil on canvas
Autumn exhibition
Galerie Paffrath
18,500 €
Rudolf Schoofs is one of the most renowned German artists of the post-war period. Starting from the gestural art of Informel, Schoofs developed his own unique visual 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 has defined the aesthetics of Schoofs’ oeuvre right up to his most recent works.
From 1952 to 1954, the artist studied in Krefeld under the former Bauhaus master Georg Muche, later becoming his assistant. Schoofs initially taught at the State School of Applied Arts in Kassel, then at the School of Applied Arts in Wuppertal. In 1975, he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, and a year later at the Academy in Stuttgart.
Schoofs received numerous awards for his work, including the Eduard von der Heydt Prize from the city of Wuppertal in 1969, the Prize for Critical Graphic Art in Hanover and the Culture Prize from his hometown of Goch.
From 1952 to 1954, the artist studied under former Bauhaus master Georg Muche in Krefeld, later becoming his assistant. Schoofs initially taught at the State School of Applied Arts in Kassel, then at the School of Applied Arts in Wuppertal. In 1975, he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, and a year later at the Academy in Stuttgart.
Schoofs received numerous awards for his work, including the Eduard von der Heydt Prize from the city of Wuppertal in 1969, the Prize for Critical Graphic Art in Hanover, and the Culture Prize from his hometown of Goch.
In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions in important museums in Europe and America, his work was represented at the Documenta in Kassel in 1977 and at the São Paulo Biennial in 1981.
His works are characterised by clarity and rigour in their structure and form, and yet their gestures are indebted to the art of Informel. The pictorial space is powerfully shaped by an abstract formal language and characteristic colour tones. The surfaces, lines and colours that permeate Schoof’s pictorial worlds oscillate between static and fragile, thicket and clearing, overarching structure and individual experience.
