Günther Wolfram Sellung

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Günther Wolfram Sellung (* 1925 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a German painter, sculptor and art educator, journalist, high school teacher and professor of fine art.

Life

Günther Wolfram Sellung was born in Castrop-Rauxel in 1925 during the Weimar Republic . After attending school and the end of the Second World War , Sellung studied painting, sculpture and art education at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . He then worked as a freelance artist, writing for a time as a freelancer for the magazine Das Artwork . He also worked as an art teacher at a grammar school.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Sellung oriented himself “consistently towards Parisian non-figurative art”. In 1953 , from where he lived in Düsseldorf, he sent the exhibition Young German Painters 1953 , shown in Leverkusen , where he won 2nd prize as a painter.

In Recklinghausen , Sellung founded and managed the Recklinghausen artistic training center and was a permanent speaker at the Recklinghausen art conferences . He was the founder and director of the event series Art and Education , Art and Cybernetics and Models for Art Education , some of which were published by the DuMont publishing house .

In 1963 Günther Wolfram Sellung was appointed to the Werkkunstschule Hannover , where he headed the design department. Also in Hanover , he developed a "basic teaching", which he also published. Sellung also lectured in the art teacher training course and headed the communication design department. After the transition from the Werkkunstschule to the Hanover University of Applied Sciences , Sellung taught as a professor in the "Free Art" course. In his courses, “Aesthetic Objects and Projects” were the focus of his teaching. Sellung's students include Jürgen Friede and Bernhard Kock (1992).

Exhibitions

Since 1953 Günter Wolfram Sellung sent exhibitions at home and abroad with his works, including

  • 1960: Monochrome painting , Municipal Museum, Morsbroich Castle, Leverkusen
  • 1961: Kunstverein Braunschweig eV - Salve Hospes House
  • 1984: Art location - Herrenhausen location. Teachers of fine arts at the Fachhochschule Hannover , Kunstverein Hannover .

literature

  • Katrin Sello (red.), Hans Burkardt, Horst Heiderhoff (graphic, ill.): Günther Wolfram Sellung , in this: Standpunkt Kunst - location Herrenhausen. Lecturer in fine arts at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences. Kunstverein Hannover from April 1 to May 20, 1984 , accompanying booklet to the exhibition of the same name by the Hannover Art Association and the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Hanover, 1984, ( table of contents ), p. 117

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d o.V. : The work of art ; Year 8, Baden-Baden: Verlag W. Klein, 1954/1955, pp. 23, 26; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Katrin Sello (red.), Hans Burkardt, Horst Heiderhoff (graphic, ill.): Günther Wolfram Sellung , in this: Standpunkt Kunst - location Herrenhausen. Lecturer in fine arts at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences. Kunstverein Hannover from April 1 to May 20, 1984 , accompanying document to the exhibition of the same name by the Hannover Art Association and the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Hanover, 1984, p. 117
  3. ↑ Peter Redeker : Meisterschüler 1992–2008 , foreword by the dean of the fine arts department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences in: Meisterschüler 08 ; on the bottom fine arts of the university of applied sciences ; also as a catalog in PDF format
personal data
SURNAME Sellung, Günther Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and art educator, journalist, high school teacher and professor of fine art
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Castrop-Rauxel