Günter Ketelhut

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Günter Ketelhut (born September 9, 1926 in Puppendorf, West Prussia; † February 9, 2019 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Ketelhut came from West Prussia and from 1942 attended the University of Navigation in Libau . After its completion, at the end of the Second World War, it was used on a submarine of the German Navy. He became a prisoner of war in Norway and during this time began to make drawings of landscapes and portraits. After his return, he settled in the trade fair city of Leipzig , where he attended the Academy of Graphics and Book Art with Kurt Massloff from 1951 to 1956 and graduated as a painter and graphic artist. He was known for his nature studies and local motifs.

In 1956 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and initially worked for the German advertising and advertising company as a graphic designer and exhibition designer before he became a freelance artist. In 1967 he moved to what is now the Bahren part of the city of Grimma . a. Member of the “Bunt 2002” hobby community.

As a graphic designer he worked together with Helmut Obst in the graphic arts community OKe .

At the Volkshochschule Grimma Ketelhut worked as a lecturer in art, graphics and painting courses and also gave such courses himself and tried to promote the next generation.

Works

In Seume-house Gymnasium St. Augustin at the swan pond in Grimma there since 1989 a large-scale portrait of Johann Gottfried Seume (1.75 m × 1.70 m), which Günter Ketelhut (1926-2019) on behalf of the then Seume- Clubs in Grimma. The colorful and allusive painting (oil on hardboard) was created in the decline phase of the GDR, originally got its place in the auditorium and was later hung in the Seume House.

literature

  • Sylke Wunderlich: Poster Art in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945 / 1949–1969. University of Leipzig, dissertation 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries for Günter Ketelhut
  2. ↑ Painter Günter Ketelhut is still full of ideas , accessed on April 16, 2019
  3. ^ Rudolf Priemer : 1989: Grimma artist paints Seume as a border crosser. Günter Ketelhut's picture is underrepresented in the outbuilding of the St. Augustin high school. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. Muldental edition, January 23, 2017, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Ketelhut, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Puppendorf, West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2019