Günter Dworak

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Günter Dworak (born November 25, 1928 in Wanne-Eickel ; † May 12, 2000 in Herne-Wanne ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Dworak grew up as the only child of his parents in the working class Wanne-Eickels. His mother was a housewife, his father a businessman and later worked for many years as a haulage operator at the Hannibal colliery . After attending primary school from 1934 to 1942, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter from 1943 to 1946 with the Wanne-Eickel master painter Karl Schmitz. From 1948 Dworak was taught by Edmund Schuitz in free painting and worked for him as a decorative draftsman, advertising draftsman and graphic artist until 1950. From 1952 to 1956 he studied applied and free graphics at the Folkwang School in Essen, went on study trips to France, Portugal and Spain, and was an assistant atMax Burchartz , Arnold Bode and Werner Graeff .

The marriage in 1956 followed the birth of daughters Marianne in 1958 and Martina in 1964. After working in the gardening and planning office of the city of Neuss (1956–1957), at the city of Gelsenkirchen (1957–1960) and in the city planning office of the city of Wanne-Eickel ( 1961–1963) he worked as a graphic designer and in the field of public relations and exhibition organization at the municipal association Ruhrgebiet in Essen from 1963 until his professional retirement in 1991 . In 2000 he died in his hometown.

Artistic work

Dworak won his first awards early on, such as the first prize in 1947 at the Herne youth art competition for drawing shoes , in 1948 the first prize for drawing and painting from the cities of Dortmund, Herne and Wanne-Eickel, and in 1949 the art prize from the Ministry of Culture (Arnsberg). In 1955 his poster design for the airline Panair do Brasil was awarded the 1st prize and exhibited in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Rio de Janeiro.

His main focus was on commercial graphics , painting and sculpture. For his sculptures he often used materials that were already in use in mining or metal processing. After abstract works in the 60s and 70s, from the beginning of the 80s he increasingly devoted himself to mining and the people who work in mining, in the 90s he turned to Christian and social issues.

Dworak has always been an artist, co-founder or member of various artists' associations, organizer of exhibitions, symposiums and art events and represented regionally and nationally in exhibitions. From 1960 he taught at the VHS Wanne-Eickel, founded the artist group "FABO" in Bochum with Wilm Falazik, became a member of the Free Artists ' Circle Wanne-Eickel and in 1965 was a founding member of the artists' association, the free eV Wanne-Eickel. From 1969 until his death he had his studio in the artist mine "Unser-Fritz 2/3" . In 1986 he was the exhibition organizer of the Galerie der Herner Sparkassen, chairman of the Schollbrockhaus art association and in 1990 a member of the advisory board of the Flottmann-Hallen .

Works (selection)

  • Bronze entrance door and handles in the vestibule of St. Mary's Church in Herne-Eickel on Herzogstrasse, 1964
  • Plastic in construction. Metal fountain for the forecourt of the new administration building in Gütersloh, 1965
  • Portal of the Holy Spirit Church of the Barbara community in Röhlinghausen , 1969
  • Installation of the Hannibal mine † 1973
  • Installation of the Graf Bismarck mine , 1984, materials used: wooden beams from the coal mine
  • Oil painting Bergmann vor Ort , 1985, depicting two miners with pickaxes and coal hammers during coal mining
  • Ink drawing Kumpel , 1987, depicting two miners from the front
  • Documentary homage to the miner , BBK-Westfalen-Süd, Dortmund, together with Hanfried Brenner. WDR, 1989

  • Door wing of St. Mary's Church, detail

  • Door wing of the St. Marien Church

  • Door wing of St. Mary's Church, detail

  • left door of the Holy Spirit Church

  • Entrance portal of the Holy Spirit Church

  • right door of the Holy Spirit Church

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960: annual show . Art Museum Gelsenkirchen (group exhibition)
  • 1981: Participation in the 1st Herner Kulturtage .
  • 1983: Participation in the 3rd Herner Kulturtage .
  • 1985: Time signals - homage to the miner - iconographies . Municipal Association of the Ruhr Area
  • 1985: Participation in the 5th Herner Kulturtage .
  • October 1987 to November 1987: Objects from Herne . Flottmann-Hallen , Herne (group exhibition)
  • 1988: "Shift change". Mining as reflected in the fine arts . Municipal Museum Mülheim and February / March 1989 Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (group exhibition)
  • November 1992 to January 1993: "Annual Exhibition 1992". Herne artists . Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (group exhibition)
  • 1996: New works by Hamfried Brenner and Günter Dworak . Torhaus Rombergpark , Dortmund
  • November 1996 to January 1997: "Annual Exhibition 1996/97". Herne artists . Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (group exhibition)
  • 1997: room concepts . House Opherdicke , Holzwickede
  • 1998: Believe (s) pictures - believe pictures (s) . Coming Dortmund
  • 2001: Künstlerzeche Our Fritz , Herne (group exhibition)
  • January to March 2001: Günter Dworak retrospective . Municipal gallery in the Strünkede Castle Park of the Emschertal Museum Herne
  • July 2010 / March 2011: special exhibition on broad shoulders. 750 years of the miners' union . German Mining Museum Bochum . Installation by Günter Dworak "Hannibal mine † 1973"

literature

  • City of Herne (Hrsg.): Günter Dworak: Retrospective . Das Emschertal-Museum, Vol. 65, Verlag Emschertal-Museum, Herne 2001, ISBN 3-922987-66-4 .
  • Alexander von Knorre: artist groups in Herne and Wanne-Eickel . In: Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Hrsg.): Collectors, Artists and Authors - Forays through cultural history through Wanne-Eickel and Herne. Der Emscherbrücher 2003/2004, Volume 12, Herne 2003, ISBN 3-936452-08-3 , p. 49ff.
  • Manfred Bourrée: Against the zeitgeist and for the unrecognized heroes of history . Retrospective with works by Günter Dworak (1928–2000) in the Emschertal Museum in Herne. In: locations. Yearbook Ruhr area 2001/2002. Kommunalverband Ruhrgebiet (Ed.), Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen, 2002, ISBN 978-3884748961 , pp. 503–508
  • Herner artist handbook '95. Zukunft Herne eV, Cultural Office of the City of Herne (Ed.), Herne 1995, p. 36

Web links

  • Website about Wanne-Eickel: Günter Dworak . Retrieved November 25, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website about Wanne-Eickel: Günter Dworak ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.4680wanne-eickel.de
  2. ↑ Zukunft Herne eV, Cultural Office of the City of Herne (ed.): Herner Künstlerhandbuch '95 . Herne, 1995, p. 36
  3. ↑ a b c d e f City of Herne (ed.): Günter Dworak: Retrospective . The Emschertal Museum, vol. 65, pp. 8-10
  4. ^ Economic Association of Visual Artists North Rhine-Westphalia eV District Association Ruhr (Hrsg.): Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 4 Ruhr, Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1968, p. 37
  5. ↑ a b Simone Streck: An artist in the pot . In: Günter Dworak: Retrospective . City of Herne (Ed.), The Emschertal Museum, Vol. 65, pp. 6-7
  6. ^ Künstlerzeche Our Fritz: Chronicle . Retrieved November 29, 2014
  7. ^ City of Herne (ed.): Günter Dworak: Retrospective . The Emschertal Museum, vol. 65, pp. 17, 19
  8. ^ City of Herne (ed.): Günter Dworak: Retrospective . The Emschertal Museum, vol. 65, p. 21
  9. ↑ Alexander von Knorre: 100 objects in Herne - an art and cultural history guide through the city . PubliCreation publishing house, Herne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813266-0-4 , p. 70
personal data
SURNAME Dworak, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2000
Place of death Herne tub