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OPENING
Thursday, September 06,2012, 6.30pm

WELCOME
Wilhelm Weiss, Director STRABAG ART

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dr. Matthias Boeckl, Arthistorian

Rudolf Hradil is represented with numerous drawings in the Strabag Artcollection. On the occasion of the new publication of the book Rudolf Hradil / Vienna we show a selection of his Vienna drawings and present at the vernissage on 07.09.2012 , 18:30 clock the book just published by Müry Salzman Verlag.
In this volume, Friedrich Achleitner and Friedrich Kurrent, as childhood friends, focus primarily on the person Rudolf Hradil, Achleitner primarily on the essence of his drawing art, and Matthias Boeckl, since a first publication on the drawings very familiar with the style and subject matter of the artist, casts the eye of the connoisseur and critic on this view of the metropolis of Vienna. The fascinating novelty of this illustrated book is the equal juxtaposition of small and larger unadorned and free sketches and large closed drawings.

In Rudolf Hradil's extensive oeuvre, drawings have occupied a firm place from the very beginning. Since an early stay in London, his sketchbooks accompanied him on all his travels. Whether it was Paris (where he got to know Fernand Léger's unusual new view of the big city) or New York, Rome, Berlin or Vienna. Longer stays in the early nineties enabled him to devote himself exclusively and more extensively to Vienna. And he approached the city from its edges, the Gürtel, the Vienna of the suburbs and the suburban trains, which naturally led him again and again to Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn buildings. After excursions to Schönbrunn or to the Belvedere, to the Naschmarkt and the Secession, the Apollo cinema or the gallop racecourse in the Freudenau, he wandered through a large part of the representative Ringstrasse buildings and finally reached, as the center of the city, St. Stephen's Cathedral.

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