Günter Frecksmeier

Günter Frecksmeier (born November 25, 1937 in Bielefeld ) is a German artist, painter, draftsman and graphic artist.

Life

Günter Frecksmeier was born in Bielefeld in 1937. From 1952 to 1955 he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and was accepted into the Federal Association of Visual Artists in 1962 . He then studied in 1963 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under the main representative of informal art, Karl Otto Götz . In 1968 he founded his own studio in Bielefeld. In 1990 he received a scholarship from the Wangerland community in the Künstlerhaus Hooksiel . In 2003 he moved to Wüsten near Bad Salzuflen . From 2006 to 2016 he lived and worked in Herford , moved to Minden in 2016 and to Bielefeld in 2017/18.

Günter Frecksmeier has been exhibiting his works in solo and group exhibitions in Westphalia for over 40 years. His pictures of the Bible were exhibited in four picture cycles at Art and Culture in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover . Other works of art have also been exhibited in Cologne, Berlin, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Works of art (selection)

Board player
At the beach
The locusts
Expulsion from Paradise
Church mice
The visit
Round table
Olympia
Dulcinea
Orpheus
Amazon
Medusa
Minotaur

Centaurs
Don Quixote
Stages of life
Genesis 1, Big Bang
Genesis 4, The Stars
Job 2, Job
Song of Solomon 4, Sulamith
Life and death ( woodcut )
bread and games
Camp dance ( acrylic on canvas)
The ark

Exhibitions (selection)

1983: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
1991: Allersmaborg near Ezinge , Netherlands
1994: Capuchin monastery in Dornach SO , Switzerland
1995: Art gallery Roswitha Tittel, Cologne
1999: Galerie Haus Reineberg, Hüllhorst
2006: Gallery House of the Church, Bielefeld
2008: Art Gallery Tieck, Berlin
2010: Petrus-und-Paulus-Kirche in Timmel
2010: Leer (Ostfriesland) - Pictures for the Bible
2012: Ludgeri Church in the north
2016: Art gallery van Laak and Bérenger, Bielefeld
2017: Galerie Raumstation, Bielefeld

Publications (selection)

with Sven Grotendiek: The great knight Don Quixote . AT Edition, Münster 2007, ISBN 3-89781-114-6 .
with Sven Grotendiek: The Gospel according to Johannes . AT Edition, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89781-122-5 .
with Sven Grotendiek: Pictures for the Bible. Catalog exhibition Leer (East Friesland) . Edward Verlag, Hagen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813236-3-4 .
with Sven Grotendiek: father, mother and an artist. From Günter Frecksmeier's family album. Illustrated book . Adal Medien, Hameln 2012.
Günter Frecksmeier 50 years of painting. Works by the painter Günter Frecksmeier from more than five decades . (Wall calendar 2017, 14 pages, DIN A3), Calvendo Verlag, Unterhaching 2016, ISBN 978-3665235376 .

Web links

Literature by and about Günter Frecksmeier in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Günter Frecksmeier in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Publications at the North Rhine-Westphalian Bibliography

personal data
SURNAME	Frecksmeier, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist, painter, graphic artist and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bielefeld