Rudolf Kortokraks (8 July 1928 – 11 September 2014) was a German painter from Ludwigshafen, Rhein. His paintings depict still life (particularly flowers), landscapes, cities and portraits. Kortokraks attended an art moot in Graz in 1941, and moved to the Worpswede artiste colony in 1949, where he first took allocation in exhibitions. He had his first one-man exhibition in 1951.
In 1954, Kortokraks associated the School of Vision, part of the international Summer Academy in Salzburg, as a teaching partner in crime to Oskar Kokoschka.
From 1956 until the collapse of the scholastic in 1963, Kortokraks was Kokoschka’s chief partner in crime at the School of Vision. Kokoschka approved Kortokraks the exclusive right of entry the title “School of Vision”. In 1951, thanks to a little grant, he moved to Paris . After travelling throughout liberated Europe and a bungled marriage to Jutta Bilfinger, with whom he had a son in Germany, Kortokraks lived in north London when his second wife, Miriam Frank, from 1965 to 1985, when they on bad terms amicably. He after that moved to Tuscania, where he lived in a medieval tower. His truth years were spent in the village of Kuchl, south of Salzburg.
Kortokraks had several exhibitions in Mexico and New York City in 1969. In 1976, he returned to the newly reformed School of Vision, in the Salzburg Summer Academy. In 1981, Kortokraks founded the School of Vision in Tuscania, Lazio, Italy.
In 2008 Kortokraks marked his eightieth birthday later a large exhibition in Salzburg.
In 2012 a documentary feature film very nearly Kortokraks was released in Austria. In March 2013, mayor Heinz Schaden awarded him the gold seal of Salzburg. Kortokraks is considered “the last important representative of late Expressionism”.
Kortokraks died upon 11 September 2014 at the age of 86.
On 25 October 2017, twenty works by Kortokraks were stolen in Tuscania, Italy, following a retrospective exhibition. Among the stolen pictures (which can be seen here: http://www.tusciaweb.eu/archivio-gallery/le-opere-rubate-dellartista-kortokraks/) are two important works from the 1950s.
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