Rudolf Wiesinger (1937 - 2020) was born in Sopron, Hungary. He will be marked all his life by the violence of the Second World War which marked his young years. From 1946, he was raised in the Marxist-communist ideology but the Party refused him to study art because he was of German-speaking descent and his father had been enlisted in the Wehrmacht. Sent to work in a factory, he was watched by the political police because he was suspected of wanting to go to the West.
In 1956, after the Budapest uprising, he managed to reach Austria, in Linz, where he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts. He worked in Ottenheim where he sold his first paintings, one of which was acquired by the Linz Museum.
In 1968, he moved to France and Paris. He abandoned the abstract style in 1970 to devote himself to a landscape painting between abstraction and naturalism, deploying all his mastery of classical techniques.
He returned to abstract painting in the last years of his life, seeking by a relentless and frenetic work despite the treatments imposed by the disease, to find an outcome to his research on the landscape in his last paintings. The profusion of colors, the vigor of the movements, the research in the superimpositions give to these paintings an aspect at the same time joyful and desperate.
He died in his studio in Côte d'Or in 2020.

Art Gallery, ARS ESSENTIA, Beaune, Bourgogne, France.