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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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