English summary: After stays in various European countries, the northern-Bohemian born painter Rudo Schwarz, born in 1906, finally established himself in 1937 in Laudenbach-on-the-Bergstrasse in northern Baden-Wurttemberg as a freelance painter. He began a family but was drafted into military service in 1940 at 34 years of age. Soldiering was hardly his passion, to the extent that he always attempted, with every short break that his service...