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Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition 2013
Organization:
Pelham Art Center
Location
Pelham, NY
Entry Fee
Paid Entry
Deadline
February 1, 2013
Exhibition
May 3
- Jun 29, 2013
2013 Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition
Pelham Art Center announces the 7th Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition for Painting.
Alexander Rutsch (1916 ? 1997) was an artist who actively supported Pelham Art Center for more than 25 years. After his death, friends and supporters of Alexander Rutsch and his family established a generous and significant fund. The fund supports a bi-annual open, juried competition in painting. A $5,000 cash prize and a solo exhibition at Pelham Art Center are awarded to the winner. This program continues Rutsch?s belief that art transcends all of our humanity. Rutsch saw art as ?the stone in the water sending ripples throughout the universe.? His extraordinary work, rich in the celebration of life and our shared human experiences, is included in many public and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
About Alexander Rutsch
Alexander Rutsch was born in Vienna, Austria. After studying voice in Austria, he became an opera singer like his parents, but after WWII, Rutsch?s love for visual expression propelled him to change careers. He was a painter, sculptor, philosopher, musician, singer, and poet. His life as a romantic is reflected in his work, as he sought to perfect his soul and humanity. ?I paint my dreams,? said Rutsch. ?My dreams are color and life. They soar in my head like millions of symphonies. I can never stop building dreams.?
In 1952, after studying under Josef Dorowsky, Josef Hoffmann, and Herbert Boeckl, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, Alexander Rutsch received a scholarship to study in France, where he made contacts and began collaborations with his contemporaries Picasso and Dali among others. Rutsch said of his experiences with Picasso, ?Picasso played a short but important moment in my life in Paris that affected my entire artistic future. I learned from him that it is not important if art is not aesthetically finished. It can be raw uncooked, rough. If an artist feels he has said it ? it is not important to polish or finish it. Because of Picasso, I learned that if I don?t feel the need to finish ? I don?t have to.? In 1954, he exhibited his work at the Salon Artistique International de Saceux and won first prize for abstract painting, the first of many awards during his prolific career.
During the 13 years he lived in Paris, Rutsch exhibited in many prominent galleries there and throughout Europe. In 1958, the City of Paris awarded him with the prestigious Arts, Science and Letters Silver Medal. In 1966, Jean Desvilles presented his prize wining film ?Le Monde de Rutsch? at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennial. In 1968, Rutsch moved to Pelham, New York, where he continued to work in his studio and exhibit in galleries and museums worldwide.
Rutsch?s work as seen through his mastery of various art forms ? sculpture, painting, print-making, and drawing ? has been described as ?vibrating showers of lines, bold geometries, wounded anatomically rambling scrap-wood skeletons, enigmatic totem figures, and congregations of fetishized, domesticated, and recycled rubbish heaps [that] conspire to a fantasy of Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Fauvism, Cobra, and Primitivism.? His pieces as described by Emily Genauer impart silence and the monumentality of primitive statuary. His sculptures are stylized to abstract construction made of ?found? objects, welded and reshaped into bronze figures and animals of uncommon wit, airy grace, and individuality. His portraits are crisp, intense, spare linear characterizations. Rutsch?s creations suggest empathy. Pelham Art Center is proud to sponsor a competition and award to honor the memory and artistic achievement of Alexander Rutsch. Visit www.alexanderrutsch.com to learn more about him.
Previous Winners
2011 ? Nina Rizzo
2009 ? Tracy Miller
2007 ? Liang Guo
2005 ? Dorothy Robinson
2003 ? Mitchell Marco
2001 ? Frank Trankina
Pelham Art Center announces the 7th Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition for Painting.
Alexander Rutsch (1916 ? 1997) was an artist who actively supported Pelham Art Center for more than 25 years. After his death, friends and supporters of Alexander Rutsch and his family established a generous and significant fund. The fund supports a bi-annual open, juried competition in painting. A $5,000 cash prize and a solo exhibition at Pelham Art Center are awarded to the winner. This program continues Rutsch?s belief that art transcends all of our humanity. Rutsch saw art as ?the stone in the water sending ripples throughout the universe.? His extraordinary work, rich in the celebration of life and our shared human experiences, is included in many public and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
About Alexander Rutsch
Alexander Rutsch was born in Vienna, Austria. After studying voice in Austria, he became an opera singer like his parents, but after WWII, Rutsch?s love for visual expression propelled him to change careers. He was a painter, sculptor, philosopher, musician, singer, and poet. His life as a romantic is reflected in his work, as he sought to perfect his soul and humanity. ?I paint my dreams,? said Rutsch. ?My dreams are color and life. They soar in my head like millions of symphonies. I can never stop building dreams.?
In 1952, after studying under Josef Dorowsky, Josef Hoffmann, and Herbert Boeckl, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, Alexander Rutsch received a scholarship to study in France, where he made contacts and began collaborations with his contemporaries Picasso and Dali among others. Rutsch said of his experiences with Picasso, ?Picasso played a short but important moment in my life in Paris that affected my entire artistic future. I learned from him that it is not important if art is not aesthetically finished. It can be raw uncooked, rough. If an artist feels he has said it ? it is not important to polish or finish it. Because of Picasso, I learned that if I don?t feel the need to finish ? I don?t have to.? In 1954, he exhibited his work at the Salon Artistique International de Saceux and won first prize for abstract painting, the first of many awards during his prolific career.
During the 13 years he lived in Paris, Rutsch exhibited in many prominent galleries there and throughout Europe. In 1958, the City of Paris awarded him with the prestigious Arts, Science and Letters Silver Medal. In 1966, Jean Desvilles presented his prize wining film ?Le Monde de Rutsch? at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennial. In 1968, Rutsch moved to Pelham, New York, where he continued to work in his studio and exhibit in galleries and museums worldwide.
Rutsch?s work as seen through his mastery of various art forms ? sculpture, painting, print-making, and drawing ? has been described as ?vibrating showers of lines, bold geometries, wounded anatomically rambling scrap-wood skeletons, enigmatic totem figures, and congregations of fetishized, domesticated, and recycled rubbish heaps [that] conspire to a fantasy of Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Fauvism, Cobra, and Primitivism.? His pieces as described by Emily Genauer impart silence and the monumentality of primitive statuary. His sculptures are stylized to abstract construction made of ?found? objects, welded and reshaped into bronze figures and animals of uncommon wit, airy grace, and individuality. His portraits are crisp, intense, spare linear characterizations. Rutsch?s creations suggest empathy. Pelham Art Center is proud to sponsor a competition and award to honor the memory and artistic achievement of Alexander Rutsch. Visit www.alexanderrutsch.com to learn more about him.
Previous Winners
2011 ? Nina Rizzo
2009 ? Tracy Miller
2007 ? Liang Guo
2005 ? Dorothy Robinson
2003 ? Mitchell Marco
2001 ? Frank Trankina