Günther C. Kirchberger

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Günther C. Kirchberger 2008 at the retrospective in the art museum in Singen

Günther C. Kirchberger (born August 22, 1928 in Kornwestheim , † April 5, 2010 in Göppingen ) was a German painter and artist.

biography

Kirchberger studied graphic design at the higher technical college for the graphic trade in Stuttgart until 1949. From 1950 he began studying at the Stuttgart Art Academy , his teachers were professors Manfred Henninger , Karl Hils , Gerhard Gollwitzer and Karl Hans Walter . In 1956 he was a founding member of Group 11 , together with Georg Karl Pfahler , Friedrich Sieber and Atila Biró . The group oriented itself towards Action Painting and Informel , especially Willi Baumeister . During this time she was in contact with the Stuttgart group / school and Max Bense .

After the dissolution of Group 11 in 1959 after joint exhibitions in London, Brussels, Rome, Munich, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, Kirchberger's works went from Informel to firmly established color forms. From 1962 onwards, there was a transition to text and image in his style with Reinhard Döhl from the Stuttgart school. In 1964 Kirchberger received a call to the Werkkunstschule Krefeld (today: Fachhochschule Niederrhein ) as a lecturer for "applied painting". One of his students is photographer Peter Lindbergh .

Around 1965 his pictures came closer and closer to the Hard Edge style , in 1973 he was appointed professor. His style continued to change, in 1975/76 he worked with softer transitions, during which time the works from the series of "double form pictures" were also created. During this time he began working with the screen printer and gallery owner Roland Geiger , from which more than 70 graphic editions had emerged by 1995. From 1979 he made study trips to Egypt, as a result of which handwritten elements returned to his work.

Kirchberger lived in Bad Boll with his wife Marianne (née Driver, 1925 - 2016) from his retirement in 1996 until his death ; he died in the hospital in Göppingen . He was a member of the German Association of Artists .

The artist, who remained childless, bequeathed his entire artistic estate to the Schloss Filseck Foundation of the Kreissparkasse Göppingen. After the death of his widow in 2016, the GC Kirchberger archive was set up at Schloss Filseck in 2017 , whose task is to scientifically process the estate and to present the artist's six-decade-long work to the public in regular exhibitions. The processing is supervised by the art historian and long-time confidante of Kirchberger, Stephan Geiger . In 2018, on the occasion of the exhibition Günther C. Kirchberger - A key figure of the Stuttgart avant-garde, issue 1 of the archive's series of publications was published.

Filseck Castle, the seat of the GC Kirchberger archive since 2017

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1959 zimmergalerie franck, Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1961 Galerie Müller, Stuttgart
  • 1963 Drian Galleries, London
  • 1965 Rothe Gallery, Heidelberg
  • 1976 Geiger Gallery, Kornwestheim
  • 1977 Galleria Contini, Rome
  • 1981 Gallery of the City of Sindelfingen
  • 1984 Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
  • 1993 Gallery of the City of Kornwestheim
  • 1997 Municipal Gallery Tuttlingen
  • 1998 Geiger Gallery, Kornwestheim
  • 1999 Municipal Gallery The Ferry , Saulgau
  • 2003 Geiger Gallery, Constance
  • 2008 Singen Municipal Art Museum
  • 2013 Museum in the Kleihues building, Kornwestheim
  • 2014 Geiger Gallery, Constance
  • 2018 Gallery in the east wing, Filseck Castle

literature

  • Stephan Geiger : The bold foray into the international - the work of the Stuttgart avant-garde Günther C. Kirchberger . In: free gesture - strict form. Günther c. kirchberger on his 80th birthday. Exhibition cat. Sing 2008, pp. 5–106.
  • Irmgard Sedler (Ed.): Günther C. Kirchberger - IM FOKUS , City of Kornwestheim, Museum im Kleihues-Bau 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816175-2-8 .
  • Stephan Geiger: Günther C. Kirchberger - A key figure of the Stuttgart avant-garde (Issue 1 series of the GC Kirchberger Archives), Gallery in the East Wing, Filseck Castle 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819931-0-3 .
  • Stephan Geiger: Günther C. Kirchberger and group 11 - The Departure into the International (Issue 2 Series of the GC Kirchberger Archives), Gallery in the East Wing, Filseck Castle 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819931-1-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-protocol.de/nachrichten/id/31745/
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Kirchberger, Günther C. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 9, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ https://stiftung.schloss-filseck.de/kirchberger/kirchbergerbio.html
personal data
SURNAME Kirchberger, Günther C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES GCK
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kornwestheim
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2010
Place of death Goeppingen