Educators Contemporary art
Caesar W. Radetzky-Radetz is a German painter and author. In addition to his work as a freelance artist, he worked as an art teacher with children and young people and as a lecturer in painting at the Reichenhall Art Academy. His works are known and valued through lively international exhibitions and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Radetzky works with oil, watercolor or mixed media, with large image formats being preferred.
Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer and professor.
Augusta Thomas studied composition at the Tanglewood Music Center and at Yale University, Northwestern University, and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many years. Thomas was also composer-in-residence with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Augusta Read Thomas is Professor of College Composition at the University of Chicago, In 2016, she founded that university's Center for Contemporary Composition, which provides a dynamic, collaborative, and interdisciplinary environment for the creation, performance, and study of new music, as well as career development for emerging and established composers and performers.
One of Thomas' best-known works is Astral Song for solo flute, solo violin and orchestra. Her most recent works include the opera Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun (2019), and she has also written numerous orchestral and choral works, concertos, and solo compositions. Augusta Read Thomas is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is considered the best-known contemporary American composer.
Christoph Ruckhäberle is an artist based in Leipzig. Ruckhäberle studied at the California Institute of the Arts from 1991 to 1992, and received his BFA in painting in 1995 and his MFA in 2002 from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. He is associated with the New Leipzig School.
Ulrich Rückriem is a German sculptor known for his large-scale stone sculptures that are often displayed in public spaces. He studied at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Rückriem's early work was influenced by the Minimalist movement, and he became known for creating abstract, geometric sculptures from raw stone blocks. He often works with granite, basalt, and other types of hard stone, using traditional carving techniques to shape and refine his forms.
In the 1970s, Rückriem began creating large-scale public installations, including his "Stone Alignments" series, which consists of rows of standing stones that evoke ancient megaliths and other prehistoric monuments. His work often engages with the natural environment, creating a dialogue between the man-made and the organic.
Rückriem has exhibited his work in museums and galleries around the world, including the Tate Gallery in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany. He has also received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the field of sculpture, including the International Sculpture Prize in 1987 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2010.
Wilhelm Rudolph was a German painter, graphic artist and teacher.
Rudolph studied at the Dresden Art School, fought in World War I and returned to art. He went from Post-Impressionism to Expressionism and later became a follower of the New Objectivity with a bias towards socially relevant subject matter. Rudolph's first successes and fame came from his graphic depictions of animals.
In 1932, Wilhelm Rudolph was appointed a professor at the Dresden Academy of Art, but with the National Socialists coming to power in Germany, the artist's works were classified as so-called degenerate art. Since 1937 he was forbidden to exhibit and sell his works, 43 of his paintings were confiscated, and in 1939 he was dismissed from the Academy.
At the end of the war, the artist created his major work - an extensive graphic series of 150 sheets on the theme of the bombing of Dresden by American aircraft on the night of February 13-14, 1945, as a result of which the city was completely destroyed. This essential work remains an unrivaled artistic record of that tragedy. Wilhelm Rudolph was a two-time winner of the GDR National Prize and worked actively until his old age.
Alejandro Ruiz is an Argentine artist, industrial designer, interior architect and educator.
Alejandro Ruiz graduated in industrial design at UNLP in La Plata, Argentina. He has taught classes at the Domus Academy, where he received his Master's degree, and at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Milan. At Studioruiz, a company he founded himself, he has worked with various internationally renowned brands.
Alejandro Ruiz has participated in many interior design and architecture events and exhibitions in Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, England and the USA. In 1994, together with Anna Lombardi, he created the Lessdesign brand, whose aim was to develop industrial projects. The designer has been involved in packaging, interior, store, event and exhibition design at Studioruiz.
Reiner Ruthenbeck is a German conceptual artist, sculptor and photographer.
Ruthenbeck studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts, and as a professor at the Münster Academy of Art. Ruthenbeck commands geometric forms, he is a master of transforming space with unconventional materials such as crumpled paper or pieces of fabric.
In his work, Ruthenbeck subverts the familiar, using minimalist objects and simple everyday materials to explore architecture, perception, and in later works, sound. The artist's work includes sculptures, objects, and conceptual pieces. Between 1968 and 1972, he created several piles and cones out of ash, slag and paper. Later, he presented utilitarian objects such as chairs, tables and suitcases, stripping them of their functionality and thus flaunting their pure forms.
Boris Yakovlevich Ryauzov (Russian: Борис Яковлевич Ряузов) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth century. He is known as a landscape painter and teacher.
Boris Ryauzov was the first artist working in Siberia to be elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. His works, including a series of paintings of places associated with Lenin, were awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR. Ryauzov's expositions were also recognized outside the USSR - in Poland, FRG, Japan, Canada and other countries. He is included in the world art rating and his works are kept in museums and private collections in many countries.