Herta Günther
Herta Günther (born May 9, 1934 in Dresden ; † June 17, 2018 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
Herta Günther studied from 1951 to 1956 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where Max Schwimmer and Hans Theo Richter were among her teachers . She then worked briefly as a department head for art education in the Pionierhaus Cottbus. Since 1957 she has been working as a freelance painter and graphic artist. Various study trips took her to Bulgaria , the ČSSR , the USSR and Hungary .
As part of the competition for 100 selected graphics from the GDR , she received recognition in 1975 and second prize in 1977. In 1981 she was represented at the 2nd Biennale of European Graphics in Baden-Baden. Works by Herta Günther are represented in the collection of the New Masters Gallery in Dresden, the Lindenau Museum Altenburg, the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
Hertha Günther had been married to the graphic artist Jürgen Günther, who died in 2015, since 1960 . The marriage resulted in two sons.
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“In her pictures, everyday things become special. Her portraits and café interiors, trained by the big German verists like Otto Dix , and a little also by Christian Schad and George Grosz, have something flaneur-like, cosmopolitanism. Günther's young ladies look fashionably elegant, the large pastel pictures exude a touch of luxury , but also melancholy and sadness wafts through the beautiful. "
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1968 Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
- 1971 Rostock art gallery
- 1976 State Gallery Moritzburg (Halle)
- 1977 Gallery at Sachsenplatz , Leipzig
- 1980 Döbele Gallery, Ravensburg
- 1985 Schwerin State Museums
- 1989 Galerie Junge Kunst , Frankfurt (Oder)
- 2009 Freital Municipal Collections
- 2014 Galerie Leo.Coppi, Berlin
From 1972, works by Herta Günther were represented at the art exhibitions of the GDR in Dresden.
literature
- 1983 Ingrid Wenzkat: Herta Günther. Painter and work (Verlag der Kunst, Dresden)
- 1986 Manfred Schmidt: I see myself in the mirror (children's book publisher, Berlin, ISBN 3358006743 )
- 1992 Reinhard Leipert: Art from Dresden. Herta Günther (UND-Verlag, Stadtroda, ISBN 3927437050 )
Web links
- Literature by and about Herta Günther in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photo by Herta Günther in the holdings of the Deutsche Fotothek
- Herta Günther in the joint project Bildatlas Art in the GDR
- Boheme appears like a flash of weather ( memento from May 25, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), article in the Free Press from October 11, 2010
- What a wicked grace of cosmopolitan women , article by Ingeborg Ruthe in the Berliner Zeitung of June 2, 2014
- Herta Günther on the website of the Dresden gallery Döbele
- Herta Günther on the pages of the Leo.Coppi gallery
- Herta Günther on the pages of Galerie Himmel
Individual evidence
- ↑ sz-online: Silent observer of everyday life . In: SZ-Online . ( sz-online.de [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
- ↑ Herta Günther. Traces of life , catalog for an exhibition in the Leo.Coppi gallery, Berlin
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 16, 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Günther, Herta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th June 2018 |
| Place of death | Dresden |