Günter Voglsamer

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Günter Voglsamer (born November 13, 1918 in Kirchen an der Sieg ; † June 22, 2004 ) was a German painter and president of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts .

Career

Günter B. Voglsamer grew up in Munich . After graduating from high school, today Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium , he learned the profession of photo retoucher in chemography . From 1942 to 1950 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , initially with Hermann Kaspar . After graduating, he worked as a freelance artist and took on commissioned work in the wider field of art in architecture .

As co-founder and president of the Free Munich and German Artists' Association, which has existed since 1959, and through the exhibition series "Kunstsalon" initiated by it in the Haus der Kunst , he helped shape cultural life in Munich; in the early 1960s, for example, works by the avant-garde group SPUR were exhibited in the “art salon”.

The Nuremberg Art Academy appointed Voglsamer in 1967 as a professor for great composition ; from 1975 until his retirement in 1984 he was President of the Academy.

family

Voglsamer's wife Irene Voglsamer-Gailling (1923–2005) was also a visual artist, as was his daughter Ninon Voglsamer (* 1957); both were awarded the water lily prize. Irene Voglsamer-Gailling emerged primarily as a press illustrator, Ninon Voglsamer initially as a sculptor and later as a painter.

Works

Voglsamer created wall paintings , mosaics and designs for glass windows .

Awards

literature

  • Margareta Benz-Zauner, Andrea Lucas: Günter B. Voglsamer. Artist in the service of the Deutsches Museum . In: Klaus Türk (ed.): Work and industry in the visual arts. Contributions to an interdisciplinary symposium . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07139-3
  • Union Diplomatique Mondiale (ed.): Munich prominence 1962-1963 . UDM-Verlag, Munich without a year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community center: history  ( 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. . Immanuelkirche Munich, accessed on February 13, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.immanuelkirche-muenchen.de  
  2. ↑ Course catalog winter semester 09/10  ( 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. . Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, PDF document, accessed on February 13, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.adbk-nuernberg.de  
personal data
SURNAME Voglsamer, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voglsamer, Günter B .; Voglsamer, Günther; Voglsamer, Günther B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Churches (victory)
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2004