Günther Knipp
Günther Knipp (born July 17, 1935 in Frankenstein , district of Frankenstein , province of Lower Silesia ; † October 9, 2019 ) was a visual artist , draftsman and former professor .
life and work
Knipp studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Theo Garve and Emil Schumacher (1955 to 1961) and later took on an artistic teaching position there.
From 1979 until his retirement in 2000, Knipp taught at the FH Aachen in the design department.
Knipp was a member of the Darmstadt Secession from 1988 to 1997 .
Since 2001 he has been an Advisory Professor for Space and Wall, Color and Form at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu , People's Republic of China .
Until the early 1990s, Günther Knipp only drew. He uses pencils of various degrees of hardness, wiped and scratched and scraped the box . The drawings suggest twilight, moonlight, coolness and humidity. The drawings show something carelessly thrown away, an old car tire in a pond, a tree stump, a board laid over mud. They are fringes. That which was previously irrelevant.
Knipp stopped drawing at the beginning of the 1990s. His new works are diverse color impressions . Made of various materials such as mirrors, neon tubes, colorful plastic sheets and painted scraps of paper, which were arranged into a room installation and then photographed. Often there is also a view of the outside through the window of his studio. These photos are printed out on A4 and selected. Then exposed several times and put together to form collages . The result of this process is ultimately printed on canvas and then reworked with paints and pencils until a unique piece is created.
As a full member, Günther Knipp took part in almost all exhibitions of the German Association of Artists between 1975 and 1990 . In 1977 he was represented at documenta 6 in Kassel. He exhibited in the Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin, various art halls in Bremen , Düsseldorf , Mannheim and the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie .
Günther Knipp lived and worked in Aachen and Munich .
Awards (selection)
- 1971 Bavarian Art Prize
- 1972 German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- 1975 Bremen Art Prize , Böttcherstrasse Art Prize
literature
- Exhibition catalog Documenta 6, Kassel 1977, Volume 3, Page 138 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
Web links
- Günther Knipp
- Literature by and about Günther Knipp in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice Günther Knipp , in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 16, 2019
- ^ Darmstadt Secession , accessed on August 9, 2014.
- ↑ Josef Gülpers: Opening speech of the exhibition at the Europäische Kunsthof Vicht, 2012 (accessed on September 16, 2015)
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: exhibition participation / Knipp, Günther (accessed on September 16, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knipp, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman and professor emeritus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 2019 |