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Paul Rotterdam
Paul Rotterdam
Born	30 March 1853; Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting, drawing

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Biography

Werner Paul Zwietnig- Rotterdam was born February 12, 1939 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria where he spent his childhood in the heavily bombarded city, during WW II. He moved with his parents to Leoben where he attended Elementary and High School. In 1960 he moved to Vienna, attended shortly 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 showed 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. He showed paintings in Vienna, Graz, Milano, Rome and Venice. In 1966 he received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Marriage to Heidrun Vogelberg, MD in 1967. Daughter Charlotte born in 1968.

At the age of 28 he was appointed Lecturer on Visual Studies at the Visual Arts Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He delivered lectures on theoretical issues of 20th art and conducted studio courses on drawing. His first museum retrospective took place in 1970 at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. The exhibition continued to Kunsthalle Freiburg, Germany, the Museum Joanneum in Graz, and the Stadtmuseum Leoben, Austria. 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 he was included in the “Whitney Biennial of American Art” (New York City), “Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976” ( Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C), “Drawing Today in New York”,( Tulane University, New Orleans, 1976), “Eight Abstract Painters”,(Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia,1976) and other exhibitions of American Art. His paintings are abstract objects, mostly monochrome or reduced in color. Three-dimensionality is an important feature. Sometimes, forms protrude from the pictorial plane into actual space. “To the degree that Rotterdam makes paintings that are intended to be self-containedentities, he is a modern painter (although he is doubtful of his own modernity and at times provocatively denies it). He must “forcibly” convert his strong emotions into things. In Rotterdam’s words, it would “manifest itself as a separate entity with an objective existence.” Dore Ashton in Paul Rotterdam, Prestel 2004, p. 45 [1]

Professional Timeline

1975: One-semester guest professor at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York City. 1977: Working period in Paris. Exhibition with Galerie Piltzer. Represented by Galerie Maeght,

     Paris, New York. Edition Storrer publishes a book on drawing with text by Kenneth Wahl.                                                                                                                                         1979: One-semester guest artist at the University of Texas at San Antonio which publishes “The
     14 stations of the Cross” with a text by Alvin Martin. Marriage ends.

1980: His Minimalist style broadens with the introduction of elements from nature.

     "He is now, as he says, reversing the  course of traditional abstraction. Instead of starting
     from observation of reality and proceeding to reduce it to an emotional or intellectual
     essence, he starts from a conceptual premise which he then allows to be overlaid by
     elements of his own perceptual world."  Alvin Martin in Paul Rotterdam, Prestel 2004,p. 144 [2]

1982: Galerie Storrer, Zuerich, publishes a book on paintings with a text by Carter Ratcliff.

     One semester visiting professor at Columbia University, New York.

1986-1987: Frequent travels from New York to the copper printing studio of Rolf Meier in

     Winterthur, Switzerland, to illustrate “Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge” by Rainer Maria Rilke.

1987: Retires from Harvard University. Begins work on the “Blenheim Series” of paintings and

     drawings. This series shows clear involvement with elements of nature while not
     realistically depicting them. "Concrete presentation opposes illusion and thereby imparts the prime duality inherent
     in Rotterdam’s oeuvre. He wants to achieve expressive qualities, which may be communicated by illusion, 
     by art’s artificiality, without using any of the tricks modernism sought to purify and even eliminate from art.”  
     Kenneth Wahl in Paul  Rotterdam, Prestel, 2004, p. 109 [3]

1992: Commencement address at the Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine 1994-1995: Gives 14 lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. 1995: Retrospective exhibition of drawings at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. 1996: Marriage with the painter Rebecca LittleJohn 1997: to the present: Annual two week visits of the Benedictine Monastery in Seckau, Austria. 2004: Prestel Company (Munich, Berlin, London, New York) publishes a work catalogue 1953- 2004,

     Carl Aigner, ed., http://dnb.ddb.de,www.prestel.de, info@prestel.de
     Texts by Konrad Paul Liessmann, Dore Ashton, Joachim Rössl, Alvin Martin, Kenneth Wahl, Manfred Wagner

2004: Drawing retrospective at the Marshal M.Fredericks Museum, Saginaw, MI. 2006: Retrospective exhibition of paintings at the N.Oe. Landesmuseum, St. Poelten, Austria. 2007: Retrospective exhibition of drawings (1960-2007) at the Leopold Museum, Vienna. [5] 2007: Receives Cross of Honor for Science and Art from the Republique of Austria.[4] 2007: Kulturpreis from the city of Leoben, Austria [7]

Works in museums

Albertina, Vienna, Austria Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala. Brooklyn Museum, New York Cornell University Art Museum, Ithaca, N.Y. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria Metropolitan Museum, New York City Museum of Modern Art, New York City Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Minn. Musée de Nice, France Musée l’Abbaye Sainte Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France Musée d’Art Moderne-Beaubourg, Paris, France Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada Museum der Stadt Leoben, Austria Niederoesterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Poelten, Austria Ohara Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Ark. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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On the Internet

Literatur von und über Paul Rotterdam im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

Sammlung Leopold: Paul Rotterdam , www.leopoldmuseum.org

,,http://de.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rotterdam&oldid=88100874” Normdaten (Person): PND: 118933884(http://d-nb.info/gnd/118933884)

LCCN:n82032898 (http://lccn.loc.gov/n82032898)

VIAF: 37715499 (http://viaf.org/viaf/37715499)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rotterdam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Denari

http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/index.php?artist=1095

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40970379

http://www.rebeccanemser.com/1981/02/work-on-paper/

http://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0619/urott-f.html

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http://de.academic.ru/dic.nsf/dewiki/2593156

http://www.newschool.edu/cps/socres/author-r-z/

http://www.nurope.eu/graz_mon.html

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References

1. Dore Ashton,(1982)) All painting is initiated in paradox, in Paul Rotterdam, Worklist,

  Carl Aigner ed., pp.44-48, Prestel (Munich, New York),2004, ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4

2. Alvin Martin,(1984) Paul Rotterdam’s new Romanticism, in Carl Aigner ed.,

  pp.139-146, Prestel (Munich,New York), 2004,  ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4

3. Kenneth Wahl,(1979), The Paintings of Paul Rotterdam: Opposites resolved, in Carl Aigner ed., pp.107- 112, Prestel (Munich, New York), 2004, ISBN 978-3-7913-3286-4 4. BMUKK (http://www.bmukk.gv.at/ministerium/vp/ots/20070903.sml) Kunstministerin

  Claudia Schmied überreicht Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst an
  Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam, die Laudatio hielt Joachim Rössl, 3. September 20072

5. Stadt Wien (http://www.stadt-wien.at/index.php?id=museumsquartier-wien0)

  Margarete Sandhofer: Die Kunst der Linie-Zeichnungen,2007

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