Kurt Bunge (painter)

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Kurt Bunge (born March 14, 1911 in Bitterfeld , † March 5, 1998 in Kassel ) was a German painter , graphic artist and restorer.

Live and act

From 1928 to 1933 Bunge studied at the Burg Giebichenstein Halle (Saale) art school with Charles Crodel and Gerhard Marcks .

From 1933 until 1940 he worked as a restorer for the conservator for monuments of the province of Saxony . With the support of Carl Georg Heise from Hamburg , he was able to undertake a study trip to Italy . In 1940 he was called up for military service and was a soldier until 1945.

From 1945 to 1950 he headed the restoration workshops at the State Conservator for Monument Preservation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1950 he accepted a teaching position at the Giebichenstein Art College. He took over the students of Charles Crodel after he left for Munich , and later also former students of Erwin Hahs .

His intensive preoccupation with woodcuts meant that his works were included in the “Colored Graphics” exhibition in 1953 and 1957. These sales exhibitions were shown in several museums and art associations in the Federal Republic. This was followed by an exhibition participation in 1956 at the 1st International Graphic Exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

At the same time, his works were criticized in what was then the GDR in the so-called formalism dispute and their quality was ignored. Nevertheless, he received a professorship at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle (Saale) in 1957 . This university itself was heavily criticized by the GDR cultural criticism of the time.

As a member of the German Association of Artists , Kurt Bunge took part in a total of eleven annual DKB exhibitions between 1952 and 1973. In 1959 he moved from Halle in the Federal Republic of Germany to Kassel , where he has since worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist and restorer. Since 1976 he was a member of the Darmstadt Secession . In 2011 the art association "Talstrasse" in Halle (Saale) organized an exhibition on his 100th birthday.

student

Bunges students include a. Dieter Rex , Otto Möhwald , Hannes H. Wagner , Klaus von Woyski , Heinrich Apel , Marielies Riebesel , Hans-Peter Bethke, Herbert Kitzel (briefly), Fritz Decker, Fritz Diedering , Erich Enge, Fritz Müller, Hubert Wittmann, Dieter Naethe, Luzie Schneider and Paul Otto Knust.

literature

  • Angela Dolgner and Dorit Litt (eds.): Kurt Bunge. Catalog raisonné of the woodcuts. 1948-1958 . Fly head publishing house, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-930195-13-5
  • Dorit Litt (ed.): Ostracized formalists. Art from Halle 1945 to 1963 . Kunstverein Talstraße, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-932962-03-6
  • Burg Giebichenstein: The Hallesche Kunstschule from the beginnings to the present, 1992, State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe ISBN 3-86105-076-5
  • Exhibition catalog for the 80th birthday of Kurt Bunge, 1991, Ed. Dorit Litt, Halle (Saale) and Kassel
  • Katharina Heider: From applied arts to industrial design, the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle (Saale) from 1945 to 1958 , publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89739-672-2
  • Herbert Schirmer Seitenwechsel , visual artists 1945 to 1965, Beeskow Art Archive, catalog for an exhibition in Krefeld 2011
  • Dirk Schwarze: Life from the power of colors. An obituary.
  • Bunge, Kurt in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Second volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 351)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 / '52, '55, '56, '57, '59, '60, '62, '63, '64, '66, '67, '73 ( Memento of the original from 4 March 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 on January 11, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ dirkschwarze.net: Life from the power of colors
personal data
SURNAME Bunge, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitterfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1998
Place of death kassel