Rudolf Dischinger (1904 - 1988)

Rudolf Dischinger

Rudolf Dischinger is a German artist, representative of the “new materiality” movement. Studied at the State School of Art in Karlsruhe (Baden). He took part in the exhibition “Newest Ways of Painting and Drawing” in Leipzig. He taught at the women's real school in Freiburg. With the outbreak of World War II, he was sent to the front as a soldier. He fought in France and the USSR. After being wounded in 1942, he returned to his homeland. He taught at the State Academy of Arts in Freiburg. After the abolition of the academy, he taught at the Goethe Gymnasium there. Awarded the Reinhold Schneider Prize from the city of Freiburg. Until the beginning of World War II (1939), he painted mainly city landscapes and still lifes in the style of “new materiality.” After 1945 he turned to abstract art. In the last years of his life he again worked in object painting.