"Rudolf Warnecke (4 September 1905, in Bautzen – 12 October 1994, in Ravenstein Merchingen) was a German artist, printmaker and wood engraver.
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architect Warnecke visited 1918 the Art Institute of the Weigang Brothers in Bautzen. In 1923 he founded, together with the painter Karl W. Schmidt a commercial art studio in Zittau, Germany. One year later he served as a newspaper cartoonist in the Ostsachsendienst.
In 1926 he studied engravings in the class of Alois Kolb at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig (Akademie für graphische Künste Leipzig).
Exhibitions followed in 1936 with purchases of graphical cabinets Bautzen, Dresden, Leipzig, Görlitz and the National Museum in Stockholm. The Nazi government engrossed his artistic work in 1940 with a graphics exhibition in Leipzig with Arthur Kampf and Karl Truppe." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.10.2019)
