Günter Blendinger

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Günter Blendinger in the summer of 2006

Günter Blendinger (born February 26, 1945 in Meuselwitz ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

During his school days in Meuselwitz, Günter Blendinger attended a circle for artistic folk creation, where the foundations for his later artistic activity were laid. During his training as a mechanical engineer from 1961 to 1963 and as a professional driver in 1966, he also took part in a drawing circle in the Berlin House of Young Talents. He is continuing this commitment at the graphics center Pankow, whose director he became after graduating.

Inspired by his first artistic successes, Günter Blendinger completed an art degree from 1969 to 1974 at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee , specializing in graphics. His teacher there was initially Arno Mohr , later also Werner Klemke and Axel Bertram . He completed his diploma with a series of posters.

After completing his studies, he became a member of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR in 1974 , section painting and graphics and remained so until the association was dissolved in 1991. Since then he has been working as a freelancer in Berlin and Zepernick .

Study trips took him to Romania , Bulgaria , the Soviet Union , later to France , Spain and repeatedly to Italy to Tuscany .

Quote

“As a teacher at the art college, he calls (...) the precise draftsman and graphic artist Arno Mohr (...) a role model for the draftsman and graphic artist Blendinger, what the accuracy, i.e. the care and accuracy with the Blendinger with the cold needle his landscapes and interiors on the plate - he prints all of his etchings himself to this day - and finally puts them on paper, and sometimes even with multiple prints against the blackness of the line grope for the color to give the leaves atmospheric freshness and depth. The ocher tones, in all nuances and shades, from yellow to dark umber, are his basic colors, which he then interrupts with a tinted blue, a suddenly appearing red, accentuated and thus in turn recognizable as a painter with his characteristic basic color power. He gains his motifs from the visual experience of his landscapes with houses in Zepernick as far as Tuscany, streets, squares, passages with stories of the people who have lived in them and who preserve them against all modernity. Exterior, seen with the view of the interior, one who knows these vistas with curves and gate entrances and holds them for himself and us in the colors of the duration in which we now recognize them. "( Gerhard Wolf )

Works (selection)

  • 1981 Landscape in Mansfeld ( drypoint )
  • 1984 On the city wall in Lychen (drypoint)
  • 1987 house on the dune (dto.)
  • 1995 landscape with snow (dto.)
  • 2000 tomcat (dto.)
  • 2006 Standing woman with blue (drypoint, pastel )

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1982 Bernau, Kulturbundgalerie
  • 1987 Berlin, gallery in the Prater
  • 1998 Eberswalde, gallery
  • 2001 Schwedt, tobacco store
  • 2005 Berlin, Gallery Forum Amalienpark

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1995 Altenburg, Lindenau Museum
  • 2000 Berlin, Studio Fine Arts
  • 2001 Berlin, Inselgalerie and museum in the waterworks
  • 2005 Berlin, Gallery F92
  • 2009 Berlin, printmaking studio Eberhard Hartwig
  • 2011 Prenden, village church and Müncheberg, city parish church
  • 2012 Börnicke cultural property

In 1983, 1985 and 1987 his work was included in the 100 selected graphics . As early as 1969, two works were included in the cross-sectional volume of 100 panels on the artistic folk creation in the GDR, Graphikspiegel ( Insel-Bücherei 920).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Günter Blendinger - Information from Gerhard Wolf on the exhibition for Günter Blendinger's 60th birthday in the Forum Amalienpark gallery
personal data
SURNAME Blendinger, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz