Kuno Gonschior

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Kuno Gonschior (born September 10, 1935 in Wanne-Eickel , † March 16, 2010 in Bochum ) was a German painter and university professor ; he is one of the representatives of Concrete Art .

Life

Gonschior studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Otto Götz and then did a teacher training at the University of Cologne until 1963 . This was followed by teaching activities at the Theodor-Körner School and the Albert Einstein School in Bochum . In 1972 Gonschior was appointed as a teacher at the seminar for art and didactics at the Münster University of Education . From 1982 to 2000 he took over a professorship for free painting at the Berlin University of the Arts .

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Gonschior turned away from the informal , gestural position of his teacher Götz in the early 1960s . He dealt with perception phenomena and created color spaces with serial dots set with the brush. His pictures were created against the background of scientific test arrangements, "[...] but the picture statements are not a mere implementation of color-theoretical knowledge, they extend into a sensual sphere of action [...]", in which the viewer becomes an important part of the picture. From 1962 the artist used luminous paint , which he combined with a flat, narrow brush to create “shimmering” color structures.

At the end of the 1960s he also used these colors in complementary combinations. For example, in front of the background of the luminous color green, he placed red dots that were thickened and enlarged towards the center of the picture, thus creating flickering, spherical structures. In further pictures he reversed this test arrangement. The resulting "vibrations" (also the title of the work) do not be fooled like the Op Art the eye, but projected on the retina of the viewer irritating afterimages. In the mid-1970s, the artist extended his painting to the walls and floors using the panel painting and created colored phenomena for the viewer in the area between real space and illusionary space.

Works by the artist are in the possession of numerous public collections. In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel, which Manfred Schneckenburger was responsible for. In 1999 he received the German Critics' Prize .

Kuno Gonschior was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lived and worked in Bochum.

literature

  • Kuno Gonschior: Nur für Dich und mich / Just For You And Me. Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-10-7 .
  • Kuno Gonschior - painting. Museum Bochum, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-935019-59-9 .
  • Ingo Bartsch, Lucie Schauer (Eds.): Kuno Gonschior. Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 1990, ISBN 3-925998-07-1 .
  • Kuno Gonschior - painting. Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen 1979.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the family's obituary in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 20, 2010.
  2. ^ Eva Meyer-Hermann . In: Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985. Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1 , p. 375 f.
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Gonschior, Kuno ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 3, 2015). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Gonschior, Kuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2010
Place of death Bochum