Günter Dohr

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Günter Dohr (born July 7, 1936 in Münster ; † February 25, 2015 Krefeld ) was a German light kineticist , painter , sculptor , graphic artist and representative of the New Art Forms.

education

Günter Dohr studied German at the University of Münster from 1957 to 1958 and from 1958 to 1962 HBK Kassel in Kassel with Ernst Röttger and Arnold Bode, art education and painting. From 1965 to 1967 he turned away from painting and took up experiments with static-kinetic light objects. From 1967 to 1969 Günter Dohr developed his purely static to mechanical-kinetic objects in order to expose the viewer to an intense impression that can be experienced in a short time.

Artist group B 1

In 1969, Dohr founded the artist group B1 with Helmut Bettenhausen , Rolf Glasmeier , Kuno Gonschior , Friedrich Gräsel , Ewerdt Hilgemann , Franz Rudolf Knubel , Ferdinand Spindel , Günter Tollmann and Bernd Damke , which wanted to create artistic guidance systems for the industrial Ruhr area.

Last work phase and university professor

Light art by Günter Dohr on the Kaufland facade in Konz

After that, in a third phase of work from 1970 to 1975, light objects with electronically controlled color changes were created, which create gradual light-kinetic phenomena that can only be experienced over longer periods of time. Since 1970, Dohr has been designing functional lighting systems in architectural and urban contexts based on these artistic attempts. A scholarship from the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry in 1976 was followed by light objects with white fluorescent tubes in series production by Osram GmbH from 1976 to 1978 . From 1979 onwards, Dohr dealt again with painting, especially with color field painting, under changed circumstances. Since 1980 Dohr has held a professorship for design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld.

In 1988 he received the studio grant from the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, California .

Works in museums

  • Cylindrogram S 8, No. 2/10, plexiglass, electric motor, light, 1968 Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • Cylindrogram S 9, No. 3/10, plexiglass, electric motors, light, 1968, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • Light object NE1, plexiglass, neon, electrical control, 1970, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
  • Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
  • Foyer in the Federal Archives in Koblenz, light-space object, 1984 to 1986
  • Image 3/87, acrylic on cotton, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
  • Entrance hall Münster, University of Education, light ceiling, 1973
  • Cylindrogram S 4, No. 2/10, plexiglass, electric motors, light, 1968, Recklinghausen, municipal art college
  • ika Jakob Krebs cloth factory: color-light-picture, Willich-Anratz

Exhibitions

  • 1969 Wilbrand Gallery: Cylindrograms. Printmaking, Cologne
  • 1970 Galerie Peukert: objects and prints
  • 1971 Koblenz, Teufel Gallery, Koblenz
  • 1973 Museum am Ostwall: Light-Time. Work 1965–72, Dortmund
  • 1975 Municipal Art Museum: Light Objects, Bonn,
  • 1975 Stadtische Galerie Schloß Oberhausen: Light objects, Oberhausen
  • 1977 Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum: Extempore 2, Hagen
  • 1979 Saarbrücken, Galerie St. Johan
  • 1982 Sprengel Museum: light objects, pictures, Hanover
  • 1987 Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 2013 Kunstverein Krefeld

literature

  • H. Ebert: Artist lexicon for Münster and the surrounding area , text volume, Münster 1996
personal data
SURNAME Dohr, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kivelitz, Christoph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, lighting designer, painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2015
Place of death Krefeld