Günther Beckers

A work by Günter Beckers

Günther Beckers (* 1953 in Aachen ) is a German artist. The focus of his artistic work is on the renewal of the disciplines and the examination of the human image.

Life

After childhood and school in Aachen, he studied painting and sculpture at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1972 to 1977 . He becomes a master student of Karl Bobek .

Günther Beckers starts working on his total art spaces, combining various artistic disciplines such as painting, music, poetry and design. In a total art space, all disciplines are carried out by him or, as in music, arise from collaboration with other performers.

At the beginning of the 1980s, he partly lived with his family in Finland . As one of the first three scholarship holders, he received a scholarship from the Günther and Carola Peill Foundation in 1986, which was extended at Carola Peill's request. In 1988 he met the painter Eugen Schönebeck . Also at the end of the 1980s, an intensive examination of Asian art and aesthetics and the Western altarpiece began , accompanied by almost daily drawing studies in nature and landscape sketches as a carrier of musical and poetic information such as birdsong or verse.

In the 1990s he spent part of the year on the Hindsholm peninsula in Denmark.

Between 1995 and 1999 he developed two patented basic systems for multiplex plug-in furniture. With them he was represented at the international furniture fair in Cologne , in addition to the pieces of furniture by the Finnish designers Eliel Saarinen, Pauli E. Blomstedt, Eero Aarnio and Alvar Aalto .

His art is an attempt to deal with “guiding images, images of meaning and life in the arts” and is based on an art-philosophical worldview created by him, his human aesthetics, speaking of the dignity of people as a being of beauty, of meaningful, sensual perception . As in the other disciplines, he develops modular units, which in turn merge to form a total art space, right up to his art chapel.

Around the year 2000, the artist Günther Beckers began with a radical innovation in his color wing paintings based on earlier altarpieces. He creates a core format from the superimposition of occidental painting traditions combined with elements of Chinese painting. Various wings of color with partially applied "brush strokes" are assigned to this core format in a chronological sequence via colors, rotations and implementation. An art-historical novelty of his last works is to hang the wings completely freely in a picture, which in turn can now be overhanged by a new wing. Color, form and content in a picture are completely liberated, also with regard to a new content, and new pictures are constantly developing in the picture as they are repositioned. With this he renewed, also from the point of view of some art historians, that painting and painting becomes time, analogous to music. In music, he developed completely new tunings for the guitar and constructed new instruments for this purpose, some of which were made by various guitar makers.

In 2003 he founded his artist museum in Aachen and in 2005 together with René Böll the Beckers ° Böll artist museum in Cologne and Aachen.

In 2006/07 Günther Beckers created the picture cycle 9/11 - Flight 93, 44 heads, physiognomies of terror and fear with 44 musical contemplations for guitar: miniatures from the “Book of Moods”.

The total art space was added to "The 4 Plains" in 2008 - 8:46 flight AA 11 - north tower - 9:03 flight UA 175 - south tower - 9:37 - flight AA 77 - Pentagon - 10:03 - flight UA93 - Pittsburgh - on display in the KünstlerMuseum Beckers Böll, Aachen.

Solo exhibitions

Germany

• 1989 Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren, "Five Rooms"
• 1997 Culture Center Bottrop, Young Museum, “Children's Rooms”, art gallery for children
• 2001 Art Museum in the Alte Post, Mülheim an der Ruhr , "Soul fields - Human aesthetic works"
• 2003 St. Elisbeth, Aachen, "The Nuremberg Oratorium"
• 2005 UNESCO, conference room, Bonn, "The Red Chamber"
• 2009 “Tribute to Bacon”, KünstlerMuseum in the Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne
• 2012 “Fanum Profanum”, Episcopal Academy Aachen

Denmark and Finland

• 1991 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark, "Image - Music - Spaces",
• 1991 Vantaa Kunsthalle, Helsinki, "Anna Blume Anna Kukka"
• 1993 Nikolaj, Kunsthalle Copenhagen, "UTOPIAAUREA",
• 1999 Johannes Larsen Museet, Kerteminde, Denmark, "Natura Perpetua"

Group exhibitions

• 1983 New Gallery, Ludwig Collection , Aachen, "Young Artists Here"
• 1986 Venice Biennale, parallel exhibition, "Stealing Diamonds",
• 1988 Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, "Paper makes space", International Biennale of Paper Art,
• 1988 Galerie Neher, Essen, "Perspectives on German Art in the 20th Century"
• 1990 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaeefabrik, Odense "Let it be - Images of Rock"
• 1993 Der Spiegel Gallery , Cologne, “Do it Yourself”, The small format
• 1996 Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, "Pieces of furniture - children's furniture, Alvar Aalto, Günther Beckers"
• 2000 Nanjing Art Hall, "International Art Interflow Exhibition" Beijing Art Academy, Exhibition Hall, China
• 2003 Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, "Heavens heavy - Heaven Falden" Museet For Fotokunst, Odense "Photo Triennale 2003"
• 2006 Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen, "Concert Mie Miki - Allas, my love"
• 2007 University of Limerick, Ireland, "Illustrations" for Heinrich Böll - Irish diary
• 2008 Cologne Cathedral and Diocesan Library, “Sketchbooks”, “Human Aesthetics” and other documents
• 2011 "Kunsthalle Darmstadt goes to school", Kunsthalle Darmstadt

Books

• 1995–98 “Treatise on the totality of the arts”, edition of the artist's book, Fischer Verlag, Aachen, ISBN 3-89514-157-7 .
• 1998 "Human Aesthetics" - (2008 - Diocesan Library Cologne)
• 2012 “Aphorisms of a Painter. Fanum Profanum. ”Einhard Verlag, Aachen, ISBN 978-3-936342-95-6 .

Discography

• 1979 “Greetings”, Live - Neue Galerie, Ludwig Collection, GB Beckers, Yalkinoglu
• 1982 "Walkman" GB Beckers, 1982 - MM 1982/3
• 1983 "Music Box" GB Beckers (with Alex de Grassi) 1983 - MM1983 / 3
• 1984 "Anna - a new person" GB Beckers 1984 - MM 19984/4
• 1995 “Hymnus Angeli”, Stefan Palm plays children's songs, MM - 1995/10 Arp Schnitger organ, St. Jakobi, Hamburg

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Beckers in the catalog of the German National Library

• red chamber