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Reichardt,
a self taught artist was born in
Karlsruhe, Germany in 1929.
As far back as Rudi can remember he loved
drawing and painting. It was the rugged stormy
landscape of the Black Forest, exposure to the
great European Masters, but most of all, the
music of the Baroque shaped his work and life.
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 he, for
the next twelve years, worked as an interior
decorator during 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.
Reichardt had the first public showing of his
work in Toronto, Ontario, in 1954. The big
transition to freelance painting came about,
when in 1964, his paintings were personally
selected by Vincent Price, the well known
actor and art connoisseur, for the Vincent Price
Collection of Fine Art. This marked the turning
point in this artist’s life and brought his work to
the attention of the art world.
Since then, his career has mushroomed with
countless one-man showings and also a
commission to do four consecutive annual
calendars for the International Harvesters
of Canada.
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-life
and the landscape, as well as the wildlife of
that region.
In 1984, he relocated to Flagstaff and a year
later, drawn by the power and special spiritual
quality he sensed in the Red Rocks, he moved
to Sedona, where he is currently lives with his
wife Edith. They have two children, Stephen
and Diana. Reichardt is now involved in
painting Northern Arizona and the Southwest.
Rudi Reichardt is published exclusively by
Bentley House Fine Art Publisher of Walnut Creek,
California and distributed worldwide.
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