Günther Huniat

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Günther Huniat (born September 23, 1939 in Thammühl / Böhmen, today's Staré Splavy ) is a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Günther Huniat's parents came to Mecklenburg with him in 1946 as repatriates from Czechoslovakia . There he received an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker after finishing elementary school. From 1958 to 1961 Huniat studied pedagogy at the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig, partly in correspondence courses. From 1960 he lived in Leipzig. From 1965 to 1968 he studied social education in Ludwigsfelde. After that, until 1971, Huniat worked in public education as a social worker with mentally weak and disabled children. In addition, he had been self-taught as an artist since 1963, for which purpose he rented a studio in Leipzig-Stötteritz in Holzhäuser Strasse 73 in 1965, which he initially named "Mogollon". "Here the most important early approaches were for a non-academic artistic expression and its autonomous presentation centered." 1980-2013 operational Huniat there with Frieder Heinze founded "outdoor gallery Stötteritz" .END 1960s learns Huniat Gerhard Altenbourg know, with a lively exchange develops. The Leipzig gallery owner Hans Peter Schulz bought Huniat's work and advised him to devote himself entirely to artistic work, which he did since 1971. “Keen to experiment, he quickly abandoned classical painting. The drawing always kept a high priority for him. Assemblage and collage fit harmoniously into his work. In doing so, Huniat constantly changes between styles, contrary to all art market trends. ”In 1983, Huniat contributed to the financing of the founding of the now famous EIGEN + ART gallery by Gerd Harry Lybke through auction proceeds from art donations . Together with Lutz Dammbeck , Günter Firit, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling , Frieder Heinze and Olaf Wegewitz , Huniat initiated the “ First Leipzig Autumn Salon ” in 1984 . In 1988, Huniat went on a study trip to the USA, declared as a visit from relatives. He lives and works in Leipzig.

Artist books and book illustrations (selection)

  • Petra Werner:   Poetry album 110 . New Life Publishing House, Berlin, 1976
  • Iwan Goll : Poems. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin, 1982 (poetry album 182)
  • Reinhard Bernhof : Everyday Utopia. Poems. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1987
  • Book for the blind.   Artist book together with Frieder Heinze, Ralf Klement , Olaf Wegewitz and Fotis Zapratis in an edition of 45 copies. Self-published, Leipzig, 1988

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum (A crazy day by the sea, etching, 1976; To the evening my heart, 1976, watercolor, ink, charcoal, cardboard, brush)
  • Gera, Art Collection Gera (Auf Hiddensee, charcoal drawing, 1975)
  • Cologne, Museum Ludwig (Am Meer, woodcut, 1975)
  • Leipzig, art gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig
  • Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Traumbarke II, chrome lithograph, 1986)
  • St. Petersburg, Hermitage

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2004 Granitz, Granitz Hunting Lodge
  • 2013 Magdeburg, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen
  • 2015 Leipzig, Gletscherstein art club
  • 2019 Schkeuditz, Galerie art Kapella

Literature (selection)

  • Claus Baumann and Gitta Große (editor): Holzhäuser Straße 73 - On the art history of a place. Leipzig 2005. ISBN 978-3-9809160-3-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uta Grundmann: The open-air gallery Stötteritz. Dossier from the Federal Agency for Civic Education, September 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Michael Thomas: Günther Huniat announces the Stötteritz open-air gallery. Leipziger Volkszeitung, July 15, 2013
  3. ↑ Frankfurt graphic letter
  4. ↑ Frank Wegner: 20 years Günther Huniat's "Freiluftgalerie Stötteritz", Die Welt, Berlin, September 16, 2010
  5. ↑ Catalog: boheme and dictatorship in the gdr. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Michael Hameter: I am so free. Friday, Berlin, issue 48/2019
  7. ↑ Image index of art & architecture
  8. ↑ Image index of art & architecture
  9. ↑ https://www.kunsthalle-sparkasse.de/suchresults/kuenstler/guenther-huniat.html
  10. ↑ Image index of art & architecture
  11. ↑ Frankfurt graphic letter
personal data
SURNAME Huniat, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Thammühl / Bohemia, today's Staré Splavy