Günther Brendel

Günther Brendel in February 2008

Günther Brendel often also Günter Brendel (born January 17, 1930 in Weida ) is a German painter and graphic artist . For many years he was professor of painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Life

After training and working as a decorative painter from 1944 to 1948 in Weida , Günther Brendel studied until 1951 at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar under Hans Hoffmann-Lederer and Hermann Kirchberger . After the university's realignment towards architecture , he continued his studies from 1951 to 1953 in Dresden at the University of Fine Arts with Fritz Dähn and Rudolf Bergander . In 1954 he worked briefly as a freelancer in Dresden. After moving to Berlin in 1954, he took on an assistant position at the University of Fine Arts Berlin-Weißensee , where he worked as an aspirant from 1956 to 1959, as a senior assistant for painting from 1959 to 1964 and then as a lecturer . In 1969 he took over the professorship for painting . Study trips took him to the Soviet Union , Romania and Bulgaria .

Günther Brendel lives with his wife in Berlin .

1958 "Brown coal opencast mining", mixed technology
1958 sunflowers in the cultural history institute of the Humboldt University Berlin
1959 Festival of Youth
1962 mural in the POS in Berlin's Kastanienallee
1963 “Autumn Landscape”, oil
1964 The banquet hall of the State Council building is decorated with a 35-meter-long picture frieze made of Meissen porcelain
1968 “Alexanderplatz”, Indian ink, pencil
1975/76 "Great Still Life", dispersion (picture for the Palace of the Republic )
1984 “Mühlenbecker See”, watercolor
1985 “Concert for construction workers”, oil
1985 “Forest Landscape”, pencil

1960 Erich Weinert Medal - art prize of the FDJ in particular for his painting Festival of Youth
1964, 1969 and 1975 art prize of the FDGB
1967 Art Prize of the GDR
1969 and 1979 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
1971 National Prize of the GDR
1973 Theodor Körner Prize (GDR)
1976 Labor banner

1980 Exhibition catalog Günther Brendel and his students (Berlin, cultural directorate)

personal data
SURNAME	Brendel, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brendel, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	17th January 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weida