Works by the artists Rudolf Schloen
Press Review
Press Review

Pentecostal Art Show Worpswede
"If we find ourselves with a playfulness incomprehensible in view of the German fate as the basic trend, then some of the numerous small-format watercolors from the collective show Rudolf Schloen betray much sensation in addition to safe weightless brush strokes, despite the weightlessness of the dabbed rosebuds and tender greens.
One remembers illustrative landscapes, for example from Hans Meid, and considers a development on a similar line to be promising. But one stops in the face of pastel-like pastel studies. If Rudolf Schloen could decide to give up the already acquired mastery of craftsmanship for a completely new beginning, which, instead of from the outside, would come from within, perhaps his youth would be able to conquer the difficult road to pure art. ... "
(Source: Pfingstliche Kunstschau Worpswede, 1946, Hedwig Rohde)

Young Art in Fischerhude
In any case, more important than any funny feature about the current superfluity of watercolors is the suggestion that in Fischerhude young artists, some of them students of the Bremer Kunstschule, are currently showing a new exhibition.
HJ Bartsch, H. Jacobs, A. Schilling and Rudolf Schloen, each with a noticeably personal character, continued the charming and gracefully carried-out painting practice of her teacher Schreiber. Schloen's generously seen watercolors stand out as a special achievement .... A show that speaks convincingly to the cause of young art. "
(Source: Young Art in Fischerhude, July 1948, RR)

Worpswede considers itself
"In the rooms of the art show (leader: Martin Goldyga), the landscape spread out in the mirror is seen reflected in the human eye, created by human hands, in the own face. Of course, we also find still lifes and flower pieces, sometimes even motifs that move away from her, but she remains the strong force that stands behind most of the pictures. The artist has seen it, spiritualized it - or at least made the attempt to draw a quintessence -, in part it has succeeded. ... The gifted young Bremen Rudolf Schloen dares - admitted that one notes this a little bit breathe - your own problematic ways to tread. A pen and ink drawing shows skilful freedom. ... "
(Source: Bremer Nachrichten, 1946, Katharina Albrecht)

Bremer Kunsthalle, exhibition of the artist federation
"The Kunsthalle has provided the Bremen Artists' Association with its new exhibition spaces for a show of hand drawings, graphics, watercolors and sculptures. A large number of names are united. ... Schloe's pastel of the fish logger holds with the right means an affect mood. ... "
(Source: Exhibition of the Bremen Artists' Association, June 1946)

The picture of the month
Rudolf Schloen: Arasse, watercolor
"The January picture in the Theater am Goetheplatz - as an impressively recorded color study eludes reproduction - allows the beholder to visualize the painterly creative process once again. One almost thinks of watching the young artist - he is a pupil of GA Schreiber - over his shoulder as he suddenly reaches for his tool in front of the cages of the Arasse (a large cockatoo species) during a walk through the animal show of the Circus Krone , With lightning speed he creates the composition, which pulls together three of the colored birds and the feeding bowl on a sheet, and in attitudes, which here the baroque beaked head, there a feathery back, a third time to bring out the bright frill particularly strong. For the time being Schloen is less concerned with the essential expression and form of the foreign colorful animals; what captivates him is the shimmering splendor of her rainbow-colored plumage. Which desire to be able to easily and fluently waste the whole pallet scale and still a last fto maintain a formative unity! Moment and impression determine eye and hand, and let a nice, easy work develop. To translate these into a rounded image is one of the tasks that the painter sees in his own words for the time being. "
(Source: Bremer Nachrichten, 1952, Katharina Albrecht)

Charm of beloved world
"Of the two Bremen painters, who exhibit oil paintings, watercolors and drawings in the Atelier - Theater in May, especially the happy palette of the young Rudolf Schloen. With lighter - perhaps sometimes too light - hand, but appealing and not painted without poetic charm, his work give the relaxed image of the world. In the watercolor travel studies from Sicily and Greece - among them the particularly successful sheet "Taormina" - lives the serenity of the south. A still life with strawberries and a dark pitcher confirms the painter's delight in colorful harmony, which is not lacking even where he has a portrait of a human face or an impression of the overseas port. ... "
(Source: Bremer Nachrichten, 1952, Katharina Albrecht)

Attractive look around Europe
Bremen painters exhibit after study trips new works in the Kunsthalle
"Eleven painters were able to travel in the years 1953 and 1954 through the support of the Bremen Artists' Aid. Eleven self-selected travel destinations, including Italy, France, Tunis, Yugoslavia and the North Sea, enabled them to gain new impressions far from the familiar local landscape. The result of this great experience is shown in an exhibition at the Bremer Kunsthalle "Bremen painters on travels". ... The images, which partly reflect the spontaneous eye experience of the artist, partly represent a later evaluation of impressions gained, are not arranged according to their authors, but form a varied overall picture in a juxtaposition of different motives and artistic temperaments. On a walk through the show, we follow the artists once more on their travels, accompany them from one country to another and experience each with their eyes. …Venice! Rudolf Schloen has given beautiful and speaking samples of his impressions, such as the "Bridge at S. Pantaleone" pictured above or the particularly successful small beach picture. ... "
(Source: Kunsthalle Bremen 1954, Dr. Maria Brüggemeyer)

Bremen painter now middle school teacher in Lüchow
"Lüchow. Rudolf Schloen, born in 1917, a well-known painter and graphic artist in Bremen, left the Hanseatic city to work as an art teacher at the middle school in Lüchow from then on. Schloen, who began his task on 4 January, says goodbye to his friends in Bremen with the exhibition of some of his watercolors and oil paintings in the Galerie Schnoor. The cultural officer at the Bremen Senator for Education, Hermann Faltus, spoke introductory words at the opening on Saturday. The Bremen press took a very detailed look at the exhibition. Above all, Schloen is praised where he renounces any verve and avoids any effect - related representation. The Bremen news call him a lovingly fresh painter, who can also show in drawings of portrait heads that he is willing to deal with the human face. The Weser-Kurier speaks of glowing, partly glowing spots of color, with which Schloen conjures up a particularly Mediterranean atmosphere in a spirited whirlwind. "
(Source: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, 1962)

Tranquility and colorful dynamics
Travel impressions of the painter Rudolf Schloen
"Lüchow. The painter and graphic artist Rudolf Schloen, who has been working as a teacher at the Lüchower Realschule for several years, appears for the first time in Lüchow with his works to the public. "Travel Impressions: Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings" is what Schloen calls his exhibition in the Lüchow district and city library.
With over 40 images, the artist gives an insight into his work and shows that he knows how to handle the pen as well as the brush. How this painter deals with colors, how he uses them and doses them, can already impress. He succeeds masterfully, with subtle gray and gray-blue tones as well as bright yellow and red to achieve effects and moods. He can not deny that Rudolf Schloen comes from the water edge and is a Bremen child. On his travels, of which his pictures tell, he is drawn to the sea again and again. Small ports on the coasts of Italy or France tie him up. There he seeks and finds his motives: fishermen, ships, crooked houses, the sea. He is happy about the idyll away from the busy world. He loves the dreamy silence, but he also manages to portray the thunderous storm with expressiveness, for example through his expressive oil painting "Stormy Day in the Boat Harbor". ... A thin mist haze enveloping the landscape in the back light, the air shimmering in the heat, the light haze that floats over a wooded area sunlit, are of special fascination for those who strive to visualize the glistening light. Many of the pictures shown by Schloen carry this silky touch, whether it is a portrayed gray portrayal or a garden with its diverse green, in whose hidden corners perhaps the blue flower of the romance blossoms. ... "
(Source: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, September 1968, Kurt Schmidt)

A Bremen painter
"Galerie Blanke & Co. (Fedelhören 80) is showing an exhibition of works by Rudolf Schloen until the end of October under the title" Impressions of a Bremen Painter ". ... His paintings and watercolors have been made in and around Bremen for the past thirty years, as well as on numerous trips. As the exhibition demonstrates, Rudolf Schloen has largely retained his design principles over these three decades. They prove themselves above all in watercolor painting, where the art of omitting Rudolf Schloen resulted in a series of leaves with beautiful moods. But omitting him means not thinning out. The color accentuated peculiarities of a motif still allow the geographical classification. The impression of the works corresponds with a high degree of accuracy. Wherever he wants to be too precise, as in a series of harbor scenes in oil, the design principles of Rudolf Schloen come into conflict. The abundance of details appears as a compositionally disordered juxtaposition, and some wipers can not create an atmosphere. This work becomes essential only when it turns to the landscape in oil painting. "
(Source: Weser-Kurier, From the Galleries, September 1982, dw)

Idyll - but no "fine painting"
"Dannenberg. A journey from the North Sea to the Port of Hamburg, then on Lüchow and Kolborn to Laascher See and Elbholz, in a wide curve over Belgium and Provence to Monaco and Lake Garda - in your mind, the visitors of Kreissparkasse in Dannenberg this wide Travel back when looking at the paintings of the Kolobor painter and graphic artist Rudolf Schloen. Around 60 of his works, which, among other things, reflect impressions from the regions mentioned and also document the positive relationship of the artist to nature in many images from the plant world, are currently exhibited in the premises of the financial institute at the Mühlentor. ... The Bremen-born Schloen, the audience learned, had already had the opportunity to put many of his impressions of landscapes and people in Norway, Sicily, Greece and Hungary to paper with his pen and brush as a reconnaissance plane during World War II. Due to the developers' willingness to think about the art of building, Rudolf Schloen was given the opportunity to beautify some schools and other public buildings, for example the foyer of the Lüchow district house with the panel painting, which impressively evokes the struggle for the preservation of the Independence of the circle Lüchow-Dannenberg recalls. ... "
(Source: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, April 1993, jg)

"Retrospective Rudolf Schloen" from tomorrow in Jameln
Varied styles picked up
"... The first solo exhibition in the" Kunsthalle Halle "(which lasts until 29th September) offers insights into the life's work of this painter. Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism and, to a lesser extent, Surrealism - Rudolf Schloen uses his pictures to draw on the expressive possibilities of many artistic styles and techniques. Many of the motifs depict maritime scenes: ports, coasts, ships and seas; in the bright light of Mediterranean scenes or in the atmosphere of his hometown Bremen, which is shaped by the shipping industry. ... "
(Source: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, August 1996, ira)
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