Günther Jahn (painter)

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Günther Jahn

Günther Jahn (born October 16, 1933 in Sondershausen ; † February 13, 2011 in Jena ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Jahn was born the son of a druggist. After attending school in Sondershausen, he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1950. In 1952 he began studying architecture at the Görlitz Building School , but had to drop out early for family reasons. In 1953 he started a three-year apprenticeship as a druggist in Erfurt and then worked full-time for six years in his father's drugstore. In the following years he was intensively involved in painting in his free time, inspired by Alexander von Szpinger , a landscape painter from Weimar . In 1963 he applied to the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee , which surprisingly classified him as trained and recommended him to the Association of Visual Artists .

From 1964 Jahn became a full member of the Association of Visual Artists with state recognition as a graphic artist and painter. Between 1967 and 1980 he worked as an art teacher in Ebeleben and at the Sondershausen and Greußen high schools . He then worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist. In 2008 the city council presented him with the honorary gift of the city of Sondershausen.

Günther Jahn married Gudrun Six (* 1933) in 1956, with whom he had seven children. He had another illegitimate son with the singing teacher Anette Hirschfeld in Wernigerode .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Günther Jahn - painting and graphics. [Ed .: Staatl. Museums, Sondershausen; Ed .: Thomas Zunkel], Staatl. Museums, Sondershausen 1986 (23 pages).
  • G. Jahn - fascination in form and color ; Ed .: Eberhard Thiem and Günther Jahn; Printing: Passavia Druckerei GmbH, Passau, 1993
  • Günther Jahn - painting and assemblages ; Ed .: Katharina and Günther Jahn; Print: fotobuch24, 2003
  • Günther Jahn - painting and graphics ; Ed .: Kreis Weimarer Land, Art Association Apolda Avantgarde, City of Sondershausen, 2007 (89 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RP Online : painter Günther Jahn died  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de   , February 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ website Kyffhäuser news from July 11, 2008
  3. ↑ Kunsthaus Apolda, exhibition directory ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthausapolda.de
  4. ^ Website of the Thuringian state representation
  5. ↑ Internet site: ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 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. Oberbösa culture barn @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturdurst.de
  6. ^ Pictures by Günter Jahn , in: nnz-online
  7. ↑ Article: The painter Günther Jahn in the Old Town Hall , in: Potsdamer Latest News from February 13, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2011
Place of death Jena