ArtistRafflewski, Rol

Artist Years1943-2019

Artist NationalityFrench, German

TitleView of San Giorgio

Yearca. 1980

MediumPainting > Oil

DimensionsCanvas: 20 X 24 inches

Accession NumberRC1575

NotesRolf Rafflewski was a German painter, draftsman, illustrator and lithographer.

Born in Hanau on August 26, 1943, of Polish family ancestry, Rolf Rafflewski has been drawing and painting since 1955. He trained as a graphic designer at the State Academy of Drawing in Hanau, then at the School of Graphic Arts in Frankfurt, before creating his own studio as a painter in advertising, decorator and poster artist. In 1960-1961, he made a first long stay in Paris, centered on Montmartre, before returning in 1963 to live permanently in France, settling successively at 50, quai de Jemmapes, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, then in L'Haÿ-les-Roses. He began practicing lithography in 1970 with the Vision Nouvelle editions.

Painter and lithographer of landscapes, initially influenced by tachisme1, his work focuses on Paris, the Loire Valley castles, Normandy (Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, Mont-Saint-Michel), the Côte d'Azur (Cannes, Toulon), Venice and New York (following a first stay in the United States in 19751), and later Spain (Toledo, 1997), Rome, Japan and Hong Kong2. He also produced advertising illustrations for the press as well as numerous murals in public and private places.
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