Bruno Gutknecht

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Bruno Gutknecht (* 1935 in Gombin ; † August 15, 2007 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and architect .

Life

Bruno Gutknecht grew up in Bad Godesberg and attended the Cusanus High School there. He spent part of his youth at Callenberg Castle . He studied architecture at RWTH Aachen ; he was inspired to do this by the architecture of the pilgrimage church Vierzehnheiligen . He studied painting with Franz Nagel . Gutknecht worked as an architect and urban planner from 1962 to 1996 . During this time he was mainly employed in Munich , Zurich , Bonn and Lower Bavaria .

After finishing his work as an architect, he turned back to painting. His teachers were now Hermann Eller and Garcetto K. Garn . Gutknecht now lived as a freelance artist in Buch am Erlbach in Lower Bavaria . Since 1974 he was with his wife Elisabeth, geb. Eichinger married.

Works and exhibitions

The main themes of his lithographs and drawings are motifs based on Lucas Cranach . In 2006 he exhibited together with Robert Reiter in Forum 4 of the Supreme Building Authority in Munich . The title of the exhibition was Hommage à Oberfranken . Gutknecht's lithographs were also on view in 2005 in the exhibition Casanovalta - Transformation of the Hills around Arezzo in the Munich Architecture Gallery . In 2004 he took part in the Living Litho exhibition .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kunst-pavillon.org/archiv/2004/04livinglitho.pdf , accessed on April 4, 2009
  2. ↑ http://www.vskronwinkl.landshut.org/2002-2003/projekt-architekten/rothbauer/roth-zeitung.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vskronwinkl.landshut.org  
  3. ↑ http://www.neue-liste-buch.de/ueber_uns/gutknecht.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neue-liste-buch.de  
  4. ↑ http://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/index.jsp?MenuID=33&year=2006&ausgabeID=285&rubrikID=23&artikelID=3577 , accessed on April 4, 2009
  5. ↑ http://www.graphisoft-muenchen.de/ausstellung-casanovalta---transformation-der-h%FCgellandschaft-um-arezzo_tipp_2325.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.graphisoft-muenchen.de  

literature

  • Bruno Gutknecht and Klaus J. Schulz: Images of women - image women. The painter Bruno Gutknecht. Jovis, 2005, ISBN 3-936314-56-X .
  • Places of longing. The painter Bruno Gutknecht. Altenburg, 2008, ISBN 3-936300-51-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gutknecht, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Gombin
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2007