Dresden 1945: Wilhelm Rudolph’s Compulsive Inventory
The artistic life of Wilhelm Rudolph (1889–1982) was lived almost entirely in the city of Dresden. He left his hometown of Chemnitz in 1908 to study at the Königlich Sächsische Kunstakademie (Royal Saxon Academy of Art), and though his studies were interrupted by World War I he returned to Dresden to finish his degree.