Günter Dollhopf

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Günter Dollhopf (born May 25, 1937 in Nuremberg ; † April 28, 2018 in Amberg ) was a German painter , graphic artist and university professor .

Life

Dollhopf attended the Progymnasium in Oettingen and the New Gymnasium in Nuremberg . 1957-1958 German literature and philosophy, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , from 1958 to 1961 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Fritz Griebel and from 1961 to 1964 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he masters students in the class of Hermann Kaspar was. Since 1963 he had his main residence in Amberg .

From 1964 he worked as an art teacher , first in Munich, then in Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg. In 1971 he received a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. In 1973 he was appointed professor there, where he taught until 1997 and trained future art teachers.

His works have been shown in several group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad.

Work phases

  • 1963–1969: Prefigurations
  • 1970-1975: body pictures
  • 1975–1977: Diseases
  • 1978–1987: back and window pictures
  • 1987–1998: chopped pieces and folds
  • 1998-2007: Utopia-Realita

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Dollhopf, Günter. In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , pp. 277-278.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Günter Dollhopf has died. Art as an existential necessity. In: Upper Palatinate Media. May 2, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ Jochen Herzog: Dollhopf, Günter , German painters - Franconian painters.
  3. ^ Günter Dollhopf , New Munich Artists' Cooperative .