Rudolf Hradil
Exhibition from 02.06.2021 — 10.07.2021




Still lifes are among Rudolf Hradil’s preferred motifs. At Hradil there is seldom still life clearly excluded from the environment. The surroundings of the landscape or the interior flow into them from all sides. A precise definition of the still life as a special genre of his work is not possible. Rather, the artist puts together individual building blocks to create something still life-like.
Rudolf Hradil, born in Salzburg in 1925, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Scholarships and working stays took him to France, England, the USA, Switzerland and Italy, among other places. His graphic and painterly oeuvre is represented in numerous state and public collections at home and abroad, including: Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna; Salzburg Museum; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Museo di Roma; Würth Collection, Künzelsau; Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg. Strabag Artcollection, Vienna; Liaunig Collection, Neuhaus.
Rudolf Hradil, painter, printmaker, draftsman and watercolorist, lived and worked in Salzburg and Vienna.
Rudolf Hradil. Still life
with a text by Nikolaus Schaffer
published by Müry Salzmann Verlag
The artist, born in Bangkok in 1952, has been working continuously on work blocks in small format for years. On the one hand, he composes colored surfaces with pigments on the paper primed with beeswax. The second group of works comprises reduced black and white picture compositions.
Suvat graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 1983 the artist has participated in numerous exhibitions and exhibition participations in Austria, Germany and Italy. Suvat lives and works in Vienna.