Gisbert Pupp

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Gisbert Pupp (born January 8, 1939 in Berlin ; † July 17, 2015 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Gisbert Pupp was born in 1939 as the second child of the physicist Wolfgang Pupp and his wife. As a result of the war, his parents fled to Upper Bavaria. He spent his school days first in Rosenheim , later in Gießen , where he passed the Abitur in 1958 at the Liebig School . He then began studying at the Berlin University of the Arts , one of his teachers being Gerhard Fietz . Scholarships took him to Paris in 1963/64, where he studied etching with Johnny Friedlaender , and to New York in 1968/69.

His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He lived in Berlin-Wannsee , was married since 1974 and has a son and a daughter. Sailing was one of his hobbies .

art

painting

Acrylic and watercolor painting were among his preferred techniques . His painting is described as optimistic and sensual. He himself saw it as the task of art to “make the invisible visible”. Among the artists who influenced him stylistically, he counted Picasso , Ernst , Miró , Baumeister and Dubuffet .

Often naturalistic sketches were annotated with surrealistic notes. A frequent motif in his pictures are female figures, which are executed in strong red, orange and yellow as a symbol of joie de vivre and fertility .

Book illustration

In 1987 he illustrated the book Phil W. Stierfeller's simple-minded adventures by Dieter Baumeister. Gisbert Pupp made four screen prints for the artist's book Asphodelic Mysteries with poems by Dieter Straub, published in 1995 in an edition of 122 copies .

Publications

Works

  • Painting, graphic, plastic 1953–1988
  • Painting, graphic, plastic 1953-2004
  • Painting graphics 2005–2010

Exhibition catalogs

  • Galerie Siegmunds Hof Berlin, 1965
  • Galerie Schaumann Essen, June 4 - July 2, 1966
  • Le Zodiaque Bruxelles, May 12th - June 1st 1971
  • Galerie Schaumann Essen, November 6 - December 31, 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus J. Schwehn: The Berlin painter Gisbert Pupp. Suite101.com , January 16, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Pupp, Gisbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2015
Place of death Berlin