THE ARTIST

Rudolf is a present-day “Polymath” born in Hamburg (Germany), a kind of “Renaissance man“. Polymathy is defined as “knowledge of various matters, drawn from all kinds of studies ranging freely through many fields of different disciplines”. Rudolf’s expertise and interest spans a significant number of different subject areas from politics and communication, lobbyism, international legal and taxation, general corporate management in a number of industry sectors, book author, good food, history, satire and music lover, art collector and, last but not least, artist. His life principles told him that, at least in theory, he is limitless in his capacity for development, that he should embrace all knowledge and develop their capacities as fully as possible. This is expressed in the term “Renaissance man”, often applied to those people of that age who sought to develop their abilities in many areas of accomplishment:  intellectual, artistic and social. Rudolf carries dichotomy to a whole other plane and it is perhaps more apt to view his body, his life and his existence as a ‘tripolar’ vortex in constant flux and eternal longing. Rudolf would express this as an existential “tripolarity” reflecting the three pillars on which his life is based, namely cultures & professions, the delights of good food & drinks, and the pursuits of eroticism by and in nature, voyeuristic and all-embracing. “Love is Life” and Rudolf has been active all his life in many diverse areas of arts and culture, which he has managed to balance with a full plethora of professional activities. The diversity of Rudolf’s interests, his love of history and his daily activities provide the means to display and evolve a Neo-Romantic Germanic balance in life and art in our 21st Century world, which is mirrored in many of his drawing, artistic works and constant quest for discovery (text written by James Wearing-Smith).