Gérard Walther

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Gérard Walther (* 1943 in Carcassonne ) is a French graphic artist and painter who has lived and worked in Hamburg since 1970 .

life and work

Gérard Walther studied from 1961 at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Dijon . From 1970 to 1974 he attended the Hamburg Art School Alsterdamm, where he trained as a graphic designer. He then practiced this profession in the city and also worked as a freelance artist. Walther has been a lecturer and teacher for visual arts and media art since 1990 .

His paintings, in which he also works with collage techniques , often show “maltreated city dwellers” with often incomplete, damaged, genderless and faceless bodies. Walther often uses black, green and gray tones with which he wants to express threatening social disintegration. With their blurred contours, the motifs of his pictures fluctuate between figurative and abstract art and at the same time appear surreal .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg , 1982
  • Solo exhibition "The Maltrated Man" at the Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen , 1986
  • Group exhibition "Heartbeat", Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1987
  • Solo traveling exhibition, Institut français , Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Aachen and Erlangen, 1987–1988
  • Solo exhibition "Pictures, Object Boxes and Collages", Museum Lüneburg , 1988
  • Solo exhibition, Kunstverein Heidenheim, 1988
  • Solo exhibition "Dialog", Gelsenkirchen Municipal Gallery, 1988
  • Solo exhibition, Municipale Renoir Gallery, Nice, 1989
  • Group exhibition "Art against the War", Municipal Gallery Gelsenkirchen, 1989
  • Traveling group exhibition “The upright walk”, Mühlheim City Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Schwerte Town Hall, Unna, Halle, 1989–1990
  • Solo exhibition, Reinbek Castle , 1990
  • Solo exhibition, Institut Français, Kiel, 1990
  • Group exhibition “Encounters with Images and People”, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, 1993
  • Group exhibition “Artists at the Time”, Museum Güstrow , 1993
  • Solo exhibition, Arts Center Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut 1994
  • Solo exhibition, Gallery Art 54, Soho, New York City, 1994
  • Solo exhibition, Palais Bénédictine , Fécamp, 1994
  • Solo exhibition, Basthorst Castle , Schwerin, 1996
  • Solo exhibition, Bayer AG , Research Center Wuppertal, 1996
  • Solo exhibition, Institut Français Rostock, 1998
  • Solo exhibition, Rostock University of Music and Theater, Rostock Art Association, 1998
  • Group exhibition "Horizons - Perspectives", Museum for Hamburg History , 1999
  • Solo exhibition “Présences Humaines”, Atelier d'Estienne, Bretagne, 2002
  • Solo exhibition, Galerie Mewes, Hamburg, 2004
  • Group exhibition " Anneliese Knorr : companions and artist friends", Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, 2004
  • Group exhibition, Kunstverein Schenefeld, Hamburg, 2005
  • Group exhibition “Annual Show”, Gelsenkirchen City Museum, 2007
  • Solo exhibition, retrospective, Unique Art Concepts Jenny Falckenberg, Hamburg, 2016

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gérard Walther expose ses "présences humaines". In: Le Télégramme of May 21, 2002.
  2. ↑ Ernst Rump , Maike Bruhns , Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann : The new Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumunster 2005, ISBN 3-52902-792-8 , p. 480.
  3. ↑ Claudia Schulz . In: Ganz-hamburg.de from September 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Book Description Gérard Walther. Collected Works. In: Lehmanns Media
  5. ↑ Walther, Gérard. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Gérard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French printmaker and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Carcassonne