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Born
in 1929 in Germany, Rudi Reichardt was inspired by the rugged
stormy |
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landscape of the Black Forest, exposure to the great European
Masters, and most of |
| all, the music of the Baroque that shaped his work and life. |
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In
1946, at age 17, Rudi Began his professional work painting
backdrops at the |
| Opera House in Karlsruhe. Reichardt worked there until
1951 when he immigrated |
| to Canada, where, for the next twelve years, worked as an
interior decorator during |
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the day painting murals, paintings and furniture for clients
homes. At night, immersing |
| himself in the classical music he loved so well, he would
spend endless hours painting |
| the quickly vanishing countryside of Southern Ontario. |
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| Having
painted the Canadian landscape, its birds and wildlife, from coast
to coast |
| Reichardt moved to Florida in 1978, where he spent six years
painting seascapes, |
| still-lives and the landscape, as well as the wildlife of that
region. |
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Drawn by the power and special quality he sensed in the Red Rocks,
Rudi and |
| his wife Edith moved to Arizona in 1984. |
