Günther Sand

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Günther Georg Sand (born September 10, 1941 in Neustadt an der Donau , † August 3, 1989 in Krumbach ) was a German graphic artist.

life and work

Günther Sand comes from an old Coburg, originally noble family. Born in Neustadt ad Donau and raised in Krumbach in Swabia, Günther Sand turned to the performing and visual arts in the mid-1960s after studying language and business administration at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Saarbrücken. After completing his studies at the state-owned Centro Sperimentale de Cinematografia (CSC), Cinecittà Rome, he initially worked as a production manager at Cavara-Film srl in Rome, a. a. on the feature film "L'occhio selvaggio" (1967). This was followed by work as a production assistant at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . a. for director Peter Lilienthal , until Sand worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Rome. He designed, for example, the interior decorations of the villas of Gunter Sachs and Ernst Wilhelm Sachs in Italy and Germany, or the interior of the apartments of Horst Buchholz or Folker Bohnet and Ann-Monika Bohnet . Since 1974 he was Art Director for the graphic company Advertising Europa srl in Rome and worked in this context on advertising contracts and the like. a. for Italcable, Firestone Europa, Texaco Italia , Franklin Mint Italia, Air Malta , Organon Teknika.

“Head, torso, hands, legs, feet - by literally chopping them up and reducing them to their own language […], [Günther Sand] creates a collage created with a brush, the fragments become symbols of an alphabet (a gigantic foot, a hand , meaning distorted), to graphic abbreviations (painted reproduction of photographic positive-negatives) or to quotations from a series of signals from comic strips and advertising posters. American pop (Lichtenstein, Rosenquist), gigantism, the use of large chromatic surfaces - with a reverberation of classical music, surrealistically encoded in a neo-romantic decoratism reminiscent of Art Nouveau, play a role. "

- Maria Torrente

Günther Sand died as a result of an HIV infection in 1989 in his parents' house in Krumbach.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Galerie SM13 Studio d'Arte Moderna (director: Valentina Orsini), Via Margutta, Rome, 1973
  • Exhibition of the German AIDS Foundation on Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arnulfstrasse, Munich, 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Georges Sand - Pictures from a Legacy , exhibition of the German AIDS Foundation on Bavarian Radio, February 17 to March 7, 1992, Munich
  2. ↑ See www.sand-clan.net, website of the Coburg family (von) Sand , accessed on November 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ Translated from Italian from the introductory speech to Günther Sand's first work exhibition in the gallery SM13 Studio d'Arte Moderna in Rome in 1973.
  4. ↑ Details on the gallery Galerie SM13 Studio d'Arte Moderna are described, for example, in the biography of the Italian painter Zeno Giglietti (1918–2001), see Biografia , accessed on September 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Sand, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sand, Günther Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Donau
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1989
Place of death Krumbach