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Ruth Rogers-Altmann |
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Ruth Rogers was born and educated in Vienna, the daughter of architect Arnold Karplus, who designed and built many of the renowned modern workers’ housing developments for the Vienna Town Council. Her home in the Hietzing district of Vienna was designed by Adolph Loos and was frequented by influential circle of Viennese architects and artists. Besides academic studies, Ruth Karplus, at a young age, studied dance, directing and music at the Kunsakademie and performed professionally in Vienna. Her fine arts training began at the Frauenakademie and continued at the Kunstgewerbeschule with professor Paris Von Guetersloh, a well-known exponent of Jugendstil, her fashion training was under professor Wimer, an international authority in the fashion world. Her passion for spontaneity of performance, rhytm in dance, and artists of her period like Schiele, Kokoschka and Klimt are continuing influences in her painting. When she arrived in New York with the wave of European artists during World War II, she gravitated to painters of the New York School. In the late 1940s, she worked with Lee Gatch, who had studied with the Cubist Andre Lhote and other School of Paris artists of the 1920s. Gatch’s overlapping planes, symbolism of the cross and Abstract Expressionist automatic writing all informed her painterly vocabulary. Her unique technique, coloramic vibrant hues and circle symbol are still readable. Later, parallel with her work as a painter, Ruth Rogers established a career in fashion. She was a consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. Her color key cast books for Burlington Industries are in the Smithsonian Library Collection. She is listed in the Esquire Encyclopedia of Men’s Designers, Who’s Who of American Women, and Who‘s Who on Women in the World. She was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor of Vienna, Austria, for her outstanding achievements. She was a lecturer at Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, Wood Tube Coburn School of Fashion Merchandising, and Shenkar College of Art and Design, Tel Aviv. Ruth Rogers, artist and skier, seeks renewal through travel. She works on location, and alternates beach scenes in the Hamptons, the Algarve in Portugal, and farm scenes of County Cork, Ireland with ski scenes in the Swiss Alps, the Andes in Argentina, the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand, the Rockies in Utah, and the Mayan pyramids of Mexico. Stanford University acquired a group of her paintings, which are permanently installed in Florence Moore Hall. Her work can also be found at the Alf Engen Museum in the Utah Winter Sports Park, where the Winter Olympics were held, and in many private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe. In November 2008, a retrospective of her work was exhibited in Vienna. |
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Clam Diggers with Kite |
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Self Portrait 1948 |
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The Crazy Monkey
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