Karl-Otto Jung

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Karl-Otto Jung (* 1938 in Mannheim ) is a German painter , graphic artist , university professor and art historian .

biography

Karl-Otto Jung studied painting and graphics at the art academies in Munich, Düsseldorf and London (Central School of Arts and Crafts) as well as art history, philosophy, education and English at the universities in Munich and Cologne. He first worked as an art teacher in Cologne before accepting an assistant at the chair for drawing, painting and graphics of Bruno Müller-Linow at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1975 he received a professorship at the University of Education in Saarbrücken . One year later this was incorporated into the Saarland University . There, Karl-Otto Jung built up a specialty for fine arts and art education, which he headed until his retirement in 2004. Karl-Otto Jung lives in Saarbrücken.

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The works of Karl-Otto Jung can be assigned to modern realism . He is interested in "the representation of reality drawn from the perception of the visible world, as it is manifested in portraits, landscapes or still lifes". In addition, he uses realistic art to create ideas that have sprung from the artist's imagination and thinking. " Lorenz Dittmann aptly quotes a sentence from Max Liebermann in order to paraphrase the peculiarity of Karl-Otto Jung's artistic creation : painting is an imitation of nature from which it borrows its material, but without creative imagination it remains a mindless copy ." In addition to oil paintings and watercolors, he creates drawings and etchings . The artist is also active as an author. He has written several papers on art theory, in particular reflecting on "Basic Questions in the Visual Arts", the title of one of his books from 1994.

Own writings on art

  • Karl-Otto Jung: Basic questions of the fine arts . Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1994, ISBN 978-3892065920
  • Karl-Otto Jung: Seeing colors. For artistic use of colors . Galda + Wilch Verlag, Glienicke / Berlin and Cambridge / Massachusetts 1988, ISBN 978-3931397197
  • Karl-Otto Jung: Artistic Action. Building blocks of teaching in the fine arts. Galda + Wilch Verlag, Glienicke / Berlin and Cambridge / Massachusetts 2000, ISBN 3-931397-31-9
  • Karl-Otto Jung: Visual Art and Creation of Meaning. For the foundation of the work of the visual arts . Galda + Wilch Verlag, Glienicke / Berlin and Cambridge / Massachusetts 2004, ISBN 978-3-931397-53-1

Literature on the person

  • Volker Hoffmann: Karl-Otto Jung as an eraser . Memmingen 1987
  • Volker Hoffmann: The painter Karl-Otto Jung. Vision and reality . Publishing house of the Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924765-12-X
  • Karl-Otto Jung. Images of man. Works from the nineties . Published by: Kunstverein Dillingen, Dillingen 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Hoffmann: The painter Karl-Otto Jung. Vision and reality . Verlag der Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich 1988, p. 7
  2. ↑ Volker Hoffmann: The painter Karl-Otto Jung. Vision and reality . Verlag der Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich 1988, p. 8

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personal data
SURNAME Jung, Karl-Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim