1. Rudolf Hausner was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
12 Facts About Rudolf Hausner
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Rudolf Hausner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931 until 1936, with Carl Fahringer and Karl Sterrer.
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In 1937, Rudolf Hausner was drafted into the Austrian Armed Forces.
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In 1943, Rudolf Hausner was dismissed by the Wehrmacht, declared unfit for war, and was employed as a technical draftsman in the armaments industry.
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Rudolf Hausner joined the Art-Club and had his first one-man exhibition in the Konzerthaus, Vienna.
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Rudolf Hausner married his second wife, Hermine Jedliczka, in 1951; their daughter Xenia Hausner, an artist, was born the same year.
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Rudolf Hausner came into conflict with the Surrealist orthodoxy, who condemned his attempt to give equal importance to both conscious and unconscious processes in the artistic creation.
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In 1962, Rudolf Hausner met Paul Delvaux, Rene Magritte, Victor Brauner, and Dorothea Tanning while traveling in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Rudolf Hausner taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 1968.
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Rudolf Hausner was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Painting in 1970.
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Rudolf Hausner designed postage stamps for the Austrian Post and the United Nations Postal Administration.
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Rudolf Hausner developed methods to create flawless transitions in pure oil painting without the use of an airbrush.