Doris Rudolph

Refreshingly creative colour portraits

01.04.2004 - 31.05.2004

Doris Rudolph, born in Eichstädt in 1967, has been dedicated to painting ever since her youth, which was spent in Ingolstadt, on the River Danube. She continued with this activity during and following her studies in interior design at the technical college of higher education in Rosenheim. Today, the artist lives and works in Bettingen am Main. A representative cross-section of her creative colour portraits is open to the public in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie during April and May 2004. Doris Rudolph's works delight the observer with their generally strong, richly-contrasting colours which cannot deny the influence of Expressionist pioneers such as Franz Marc or August Macke. The choice of subject always revolves around man and his environment, whereby the latter is frequently experienced more or less as an abstraction. The artist pays particular attention to the human face, whose features and possible expressions present a special challenge in their representation. In her paintings, faces remain mainly realistic, with the colour matching the more distinct background. The bodies, on the other hand, turn into roughly-sketched portrayals, or are ”cut up” into geometric, segment-shaped sections. The qualified interior designer gets her ideas from nature itself, the bases of her figures are realistic people, who gradually lose parts of their identity during the creation of the painting. Suspense is thus created – suspense which entices the observer into an emotional and highly-imaginative atmosphere. Commissioned paintings such as wall murals for restaurants and wellness areas or large-format paintings for specific occasions such as customer portraits, have contributed towards the progression of the artist's particular style of painting. The main materials used are acrylic or emulsion paint on canvas. The paintings by Doris Rudolph do not only address people interested in art: they also impress ”the man on the street”.

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