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Paul Rotterdam | |
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 Paul Rotterdam in 2013 | |
| Born | 12 February 1939 Wiener Neustadt, Austria |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
Paul Rotterdam (born 12 February 1939) is an Austrian-born American painter.
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Paul Rotterdam | |
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| Paul Rotterdam in 2013 | |
| Born | 12 February 1939 Wiener Neustadt, Austria |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
Paul Rotterdam (born 12 February 1939) is an Austrian-born American painter.
Werner Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam was born and grew up in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, (heavily bombed during World War II). He moved with his parents to Leoben where he attended Elementary and High School. In 1960 he moved to Vienna, briefly attended the Akademie der angewandten Kunst and enrolled at the University of Vienna to study philosophy. In 1961 he had his first exhibition of paintings at the Galleria Numero in Florence. He had an exhibition for the first time in Vienna in 1962. Three years later he was selected to represent Austria at the Fourth Biennial of Young Artists in Paris and at the Eighth Biennial of International Art in Tokyo. In 1966 he received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna.[ citation needed ]
At the age of 28 Paul Rotterdam was appointed Lecturer on Visual Studies at the Visual Arts Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He delivered lectures on theoretical issues of 20th-century art and conducted studio courses on drawing. His first museum retrospective took place in 1970 at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. In 1973 he moved his studio to a loft on West-Broadway in the Tribeca section of New York City. He continued teaching in the spring semesters at Harvard University.1975:Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum, New York NY. 1976: Artists-Immigrants of America 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC. 1980: American Drawing 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 1986:National Drawing Invitational, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. 1991: Le Cabinet des Dessins, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul. 1997:The New York School, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In 1996 Rotterdam married the painter, Rebecca LittleJohn. Paul Rotterdam was awarded the medal of honor for science and art from the Republic of Austria.2007 Retrospective exhibition of drawings at the Leopold Museum, Vienna. Receives Cross of Honor for Science and Art from the Republic of Austria. From 2007 his work is permanently represented by Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich. In 2014 he publishes a selection of public lectures in German (Hirmer Verlag, Munich) and English (University of Chicago Press): "Wild Vegetation- From Art to Nature". In November 2014 he had a public discussion with the philosopher Konrad Paul Liessmann at the Leopold Museum in Vienna covering the topic of the sublime which in Modernism has become an important criterion to measure progress in art. In 2017 exhibition together with Rebecca LittleJohn at the Museum der Stadt Leoben, Austria. Lives in New York and Texas.[ citation needed ]
Rotterdam's paintings are generally abstract and mostly monochrome or reduced in color. Three-dimensionality is an important feature in his work with forms often protruding from the pictorial plane into actual space.[ citation needed ]
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