Günther Förg

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Gate and stele
sculpture, Rotterdam 1994

Günther Förg (born December 5, 1952 in Füssen ; † December 5, 2013 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter , sculptor and photo artist .

life and work

Förg studied from 1973 to 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen . The first solo exhibition took place in 1980 in the Munich gallery Rüdiger Schöttle . In 1984 he took part in the exhibition from here - two months of new German art in Düsseldorf . Förg was represented at documenta IX in 1992 . From 1992 to 1999 he taught at the University of Design in Karlsruhe . In 1996 he was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize . From 1999 he held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

Günther Förg was particularly influenced by the architecture , which shaped all of his work. In particular, the Italian architecture of rationalism and modern buildings of the 20th century formed the subjects of his photographic work. These related, for example, to modernism in Moscow and Bauhaus architecture in Israel with buildings from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and the IG-Farben building in Frankfurt am Main .

From the 1990s onwards, large-format window and grid pictures were created on canvas or paper. With seemingly hastily placed brushstrokes and surfaces in broken colors, he created flicker effects and lighting moods that are reminiscent of the geometric structures of architecture, but also of the properties of nature and landscape.

Under the title 3 Pictures - 30 Watercolors , specially made works of the Allgäu landscape were shown in 2007 in the Museum of the City of Füssen (former Sankt Mang monastery ). In spring 2008, the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna showed Günther Förg in the exhibition . Back and Forth works by Förgs together with the collection exhibition Baselitz to Lassnig - masterful pictures with works by Georg Baselitz , Anselm Kiefer , Maria Lassnig , Markus Lüpertz , Sigmar Polke , Arnulf Rainer and Gerhard Richter as well as an Immendorff exhibition and thus presented the works in the Context of German painting.

In 2010, the Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe showed works on paper from the period from 2006 to 2010. Two years after Förg's stroke, in 2012 the Kunstraum Grässlin , St. Georgen in the Black Forest , presented an overview of his artistic work. Günter Förg died on his 61st birthday in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Awards

Working in public collections

  • Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main: Untitled , 1990, cast bronze, 239.5 × 120.5 × 10.5 cm. Acquired in 1990, Inv. No. 1990/250; Wall painting , 1991, acrylic paint, 12.3 × 7.2 m. Acquired in 1991, Inv. No. 1991/238

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1982: Achim Kubinski Gallery , Stuttgart
  • 1983: Galerie Max Hetzler , Stuttgart
  • 1986: Peter Pakesch Gallery, Vienna
  • 1991: Kunsthalle Tübingen : Günther Förg , August 10 - September 15, 1991
  • 2005: Max Dudler , Günther Förg, Architektur Galerie, Berlin
  • 2006: Günther Förg - Space and Surface - Photographs , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 2007: Museum of Contemporary Art , Basel
  • 2008: Günther Förg - BACK AND FORTH , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Essl Museum catalog
  • 2009: Fondation Beyeler , Riehen
  • 2010: Günther Förg - wall painting and photography , Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2011: Günther Förg - pictures, murals and photography 1987–2011 , Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  • 2014: Günther Förg. , Museum Brandhorst , Munich
  • 2016: FÖRG - Günther Förg from the Kopp Munich Collection , MEWO Kunsthalle , Memmingen
  • 2018: Günther Förg [untitled] 1976–2018 , Kunstverein Reutlingen
  • 2018: A Fragile Beauty , Stedelisk Museum Amsterdam

Group exhibitions

  • 1984: from here , Düsseldorf
  • 1987: Painting-wall painting, Grazer Kunstverein / steirischer herbst
  • 1992: documenta IX , Kassel
  • 2014: Beyond Architecture (1950-2014) - Karl Hugo Schmölz, Irmel Kamp et al. The possibilities of artistic consideration of architecture within exemplary photographic positions. , New Aachen Art Association in cooperation with RWTH Aachen and FH Aachen .

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Günther Förg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Müller: The advantage of not being determined. Welt Online, June 10, 2012, accessed July 3, 2012 .
  2. ^ Poster for the exhibitions Günter Förg and Franz West: Redundanz, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, 1986. Accessed on March 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on May 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on May 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ steirischer herbst: painting - wall painting / steirischer herbst 1987 / years / archive / home - steirischer herbst. Accessed March 10, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on August 25, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Förg, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Füssen , Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2013
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau