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<strong>February</strong> <strong>2008</strong> <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Chapala</strong> <strong>Review</strong> Page 33 German Expressionism of Georg Rauch by Miriam Ruth Body Becomes Landscape Announcing an Homage to a local master: The German Expressionism of Georg Rauch, <strong>February</strong> 23 to April 4, Centro Cultural Gonzales Gallo, <strong>Chapala</strong>. George Rauch lived among us for many years. He and his wife Phyllis built a house in the hills near Jocotepec in 1976, when only bohemians would do such a thing. He was already a successful artist when they came here, and she his most ardent fan, promoting his work around the world. His kinetic sculpture was hung or mounted throughout the house. They put a pool in and heated it to cozy warmth with the sun Every Sunday for years they held court in his studio, a salon for creative people. Georg had been born in Austria, and was a young man when Hitler was welcomed into Vienna. Though tall, intelligent, and handsome, he was deemed unfit for life in the Third Reich, and was sent to the Russian front, to die in the slaughter there, one of Hitler’s <strong>15</strong>0,000 Jewish soldiers. Little attention was given to the hygiene or health of anyone at the Eastern Front. Medicine was almost nonexistent. Death was everywhere. Georg survived the war, just barely; starved and weakened, he contracted tuberculosis, the disease settling in his hip, and spent two years in a body cast in a sanitarium in Switzerland. This cloud had a silver lining, for while confined, he drew constantly. It was the beginning of his life as an artist. His book about this entire ordeal, The Jew with the Iron Cross, is a compilation of letters he sent home to his mother. His paintings were at first self deprecating, silly clowns with sad faces, all in colorful German Expressionism. In time, the mood lightened and the theme changed to sensuality in forms from floral to feminine. There were poster sized paintings of wild flowers captured in vases, and women would lie on desert floors with purple hills at the horizon, or serve as the boulder, upon which and through which, a vine would grow. Painting was Georg’s spiritual practice, his job as an artist, to reveal his soul. Rauch has exhibited in London, Paris Munich, Duseldorf, New York City, Los Angeles, Monterrey, Puebla, Mexico City, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Puerta Vallarta, and Acapulco. He was honored by two retrospective, one at the Central Cultural Cabanas, the other, for fifty years as an artist, at the ExConvento Carmen, both in Guadalajara. The government of Jalisco is to hold a homage, Febrary 23rd for six weeks at the Central Cultural, Gonzalez Gallo, otherwise known as the old train station, in <strong>Chapala</strong>. Cocktails will be a 7:00 p.m. on March 2. Estética Unisex Raquel Haircuts Highlights Manicures Pedicures Nails Treatments Permanents Hairstyling Javier Mina #45 Ajijic, Jal. 766-0468 English Spoken CHR Carlos’ Homebuilding and Remodeling Cost-eective solutions for any problem, large or small home. Carlos Pineda carapinjim@hotmail.com Tel: (376) 766-0468 Cell: 045 (333) 814-8911
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