Günter Wirth (gallery owner)

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Günter Wirth (born January 22, 1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) is a German painter , graphic artist and gallery owner .

Life

Wirth was born as the son of Heinrich Wirth (1902–1978) in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He attended school in Berlin, in Prussian Holland , in Saalfeld / Saale and graduated from high school in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1950. After graduating from high school, he worked in road construction, took his journeyman's examination in 1952 and studied civil engineering. In 1953 he joined the J eunesse Européens Fédéralistes (JEF) at the Sorbonne and has since arranged himself in the European movement. In 1954 he had his first publication in the American newspaper `Neue Zeitung für Deutschland` and received official recognition as a freelance artist (painter). From now on he participated in the “Great Berlin Art Exhibitions” and the “Charlottenburg City Hall Exhibitions”. In 1955 he was accepted as a painter in the BVBK (Professional Association of Visual Artists) in Germany and wrote the work “Decoration in the Vocational School”. In 1961 he laid the foundation stone for the “Wirth Collection” and organized four stands at the UNESCO exhibition. He worked temporarily as a graduate engineer for the Berlin municipal drainage system and at a school in Kreuzberg for two years in mathematics and art and then as a senior teacher until his retirement in 1990 at the Charlottenburg Loschmidt Oberschule, a special school for German and foreign students with no qualifications in workshop classes. In addition to his job as senior teacher, he has been working as a freelance artist since 1953, had his first solo exhibition in Berlin in Studio 22 in Charlottenburg and the first picture publication in DIE NEUE ZEITUNG FÜR DEUTSCHLAND, the American newspaper for Germany. (Wednesday 8 December 1954 / Number 285). From 1963 to 1969 he headed the Dagmar Wirth gallery, which was renamed the Wirth gallery in Berlin a short time later. During this time he exhibited various internationally known artists, signed a number of artists such as Fred Thieler , Bernd Damke , Heiner Dilly , Walter Heckmann , Dieter Hacker, and exhibited them abroad. The gallery was the first in the Federal Republic of Germany to exhibit an Israeli, David Azuz, who was born in Tel-Aviv in 1942, and presented it in five group exhibitions from 1963 to 1966. In 1962 he had his first foreign exhibitions in the New Vision Center Gallery London and in the Litchtfield Gallery Connecticut / USA. In 1965 he exhibited in the Galleria il Centro Napoli, in the Studio Matera (Sicily) and in the Galerie Palette in Wuppertal. In 1967 the agency Modern Art Agency Lucio Amelio, Napoli-Vomero, Parco Margherita 85 took over his representation. January 1967 in the Galleria Il Bilico in Rome, from January 28th to February 10th 1967 in the "Modern Art Agency", Napoli, from January 4th to 17th. March 1967 in the Galleria Numero, Firenze, and from March 22nd – 3. April 1967 in the Galleria Fiamma Vigo in Rome. Achille Bonito Oliva wrote the foreword to the exhibition catalogs . In 1991 Michael Schulz took him over in Mommsenstrasse and represented him at numerous trade fairs in Germany and abroad. In 1995 he moved to Waszkowiak on Friedrichstrasse, who showed him in the Moscow arena. He became a member of the President Council of the University of Florida and is featured in several exhibitions annually by her and other museums in Tampa and Lakeland. In 1998 he published his last works under the title 'Scan to Plot' (digital transfer of drawings in small format on canvas) and ended his work as a visual artist.

Work (selection)

  • 1943 High Swarm , Museum Stadt Saalfeld

  • 1953 Mud huts in Kabul , district office of Charlottenburg

  • 1966 Beat of our time , Bad Steben Art Museum

  • 1997 SCAN TO PLOT 702 MONIKA, Polk Museum of Art Lakeland

Museums and public collections

  • 1962: Graphothek Reinickendorf
  • 1963: Artothek Berlin
  • 1966: Municipal gallery of the city, Villingen-Schwenningen
  • 1991 and 1995: Aviation Museum Hisashi Tateiwa, Ito, Japan
  • 1992: Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa Fl.
  • 1992: Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
  • 1992: Knecht-Drenth Foundation, Amsterdam
  • 1992: Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Fl.
  • 1992: Ikeda Museum of 20th Art, Ito, Japan
  • 1993: National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
  • 1994: Remfry and Sagar ´Remfry House´ Business Center, New Delhi
  • 1995: Graphothek City Charlottenburg
  • 1995: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
  • 1997: City Museum, Saalfeld
  • 1997: German-German Museum, Mödlareuth
  • 1998: Goethe Institute, San Francisco
  • 2013: Rathaus-Galerie, Reinickendorf
  • 2014: Berlinische Galerie - State Museum for Modern Art
  • 2014: Graphic Museum Foundation Schreiner, Bad Steben
  • 2015: KommunaleGalerieberlin - Museum of Modern Art
  • 2015: Graphic Museum Bad Steben

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953: First solo exhibition at Studio 22, Charlottenburg
  • 1965: Participation in an exhibition in the Galleria Il Centro, Naples
  • 1966: Johanna Schiessel Gallery, Freiburg; Small gallery, Schwenningen; Studio Kaluza, Stuttgart
  • 1967: Participation in the exhibition painting-graphic-sculpture of the GDR, Berlin-Mitte 1967
  • 1967: 1.1. Modern Art Agency , Napoli (Vomero)
  • 1967: Galleria Il Bilico Rome, Galleria Numero, Florence, Galleria Fiamma Vigo Rome
  • 1967: German Association of Artists, Karlsruhe
  • 1970: Galerie Schiessel, Cologne
  • 1992: Galerie Glaszentrum, Berlin
  • 1992: Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin
  • 1993: Art Frankfurt
  • 1994: Galerie Raubach, St. Gallen
  • 1994: Dresdner Bank Berlin-Lichtenberg-Ost
  • 1994: Chase Manhattan Bank, Tampa
  • 1995: Museu de Granollers, Barcelona
  • 1995 and 1996: Dialysis Center at the University of South Florida, Tampa
  • 1996: XVIII. Országos Grafikai Biennále, Miskolc
  • 1997: Saale Gallery, Saalfeld
  • 1998 and 1999: Waszkowiak Gallery, Berlin,
  • 1999: Manege MOSCOW Red Square, Ref: Represented by Galerie Waszkowiak
  • 1999 and 2001: Galerie HG Krupp, Weinbach
  • 1992: Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Fl. Günter Wirth
  • 2004: The Wilson Company, Tampa
  • 2005: Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Fl. Günter Wirth - Repositioning Reality I.
  • 2006: Carlton Fields, Atlanta
  • 2012: Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Fl. Günter Wirth - Repositioning Reality III
  • 2013: Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf New acquisitions in the graphic library
  • 2014: The Wilson Company, Tampa
  • 2014: WUSF TV, Tampa
  • 2014: Carlton Fields Jordan Burt, Tampa
  • 2014: Grafik Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben Grenz - 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • 2015: USF Patel Center for Global Solutions, Tampa
  • 2015: Art Museum Bad Steben Günter Wirth
  • 2015: De la Parte & Gilbert, Tampa
  • 2016: Galerie Saalfeld 25 years Kunstverein Saalfeld
  • 2016: Burr & Forman, Tampa
  • 2018: Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf Art on time - time for art

Fonts

  • 1962: Decoration in the vocational school. Art education or purpose-oriented task?
  • 1967: About my work , Modern Graphic District Mainz

literature

  • David Rosenbaum: The graphic work Günter Wirths 1953-1993 , Albert Nauck, Cologne-Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3-87574-102-1 .
  • Karsten Stroschen: Günter Wirth, Tails 1991–1995 , Albert Nauck, Cologne-Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-87574-103-X .
  • Heinz Ohff: Günter Wirth . In: Magazin Kunst, Mainz, 1967, Volume 7, p. 445.
  • Werner Gocksch: Scan to Plot Rathaus Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin March 4, 1998 (Ref. Kunstamt Reinickendorf)
  • Maren Kratschmar-Kroneck: On the wall pictures by the Berlin constructivist Günter Wirth , GRENZE, Graphics Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben.

Web links

Commons : Günter Wirth  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Gocksch: Scan to plot . Ed .: Ref. Kunstamt Reinickendorf. Berlin March 4th 1998.
  2. ↑ Belser Art Catalog 1993/94 and 1996/97
  3. ↑ Belser Art Catalog 98
  4. ↑ Belser Art Quarter 2/92, Belser Art Catalog 1996/97, Belser Art Catalog 98
  5. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 19, 1966; Badische Zeitung January 21, 1966
  6. ↑ Berlin Art Calendar 5/1993 and 6/1993
  7. ↑ Kunstforum May 1994, Belser Art Quarter 2/94
  8. ↑ Berlin Art Calendar No. 34 and No. 35
  9. ↑ El 9 Nou of September 24, 1995, Revista del Valles of October 7, 1995
  10. ↑ Der Neue Saale-Spiegel, September 24, 1997
  11. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 9, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg