R. (RUDOLF) JUNK 1880 Vienna (Austria) - 1943 Rekawinkel (Austria) Rose Garden
Oil / Canvas: 53 x 42,5 cm
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Height: 53 cm
Over R. (RUDOLF) JUNK
Rudolf Junk was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. After studying Germanic philology at the University of Vienna, he trained from 1903 to 1908 under Heinrich Lefler at the Academy of Fine Arts. His painted oeuvre is small and was produced almost entirely between 1903 and 1907: no more than some twenty oils and pastels in which he explored the formal possibilities of Pointillism with a markedly decorative sensibility. These works count among the rare instances of the reception of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in early twentieth-century Austrian painting. A member of the Vienna Hagenbund (its president around 1911), Junk subsequently devoted himself chiefly to printmaking, above all the woodcut. From 1909, he worked for the Austrian State Printing Office, designing numerous banknotes, securities, and postage stamps. From 1924 until his death, he served as director of the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, a role that increasingly eclipsed his own artistic practice.