Wilhelm Rudolph (1889 - 1982) was celebrated as an innovator of the realistic woodcut and as a sensitive portraitist, although his work stands between and alongside the trends and dominant phenomena of 20th century art history. In Dresden, he is known above all as the creator of an impressive graphic "documentary work" about the destroyed city of Dresden. This aspect is now to be placed in Rudolph's oeuvre, which spans more than 60 years.
In cooperation with the Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen, we prepared an exhibition in which Rudolph's woodcuts and paintings were presented in an overview. This resulted in an impressive arc from his expressionist beginnings to the development of his characteristic realism and his later recourse to impressionist traditions.