Manfred Bluth

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Manfred Bluth (1974)

Manfred Bluth (born July 30, 1926 in Berlin ; † December 22, 2002 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Grave site , Hüttenweg 47, in Berlin-Dahlem

Manfred Bluth grew up in Berlin. From 1942 to the end of 1943 he attended the Berlin Art Academy, after which he was a soldier. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at the Munich Art Academy.

From 1953 to 1968 he was exhibition director at the Amerika-Haus in Berlin , and from 1974 to 1991 professor of painting at the Kassel University . In 1955 he received the Berlin Art Prize. In January 1973, together with Johannes Grützke , Matthias Koeppel and Karlheinz Ziegler, he founded the artist group “ School of New Magnificence ”, which sought to differentiate itself from all abstract art with its ironic realism. On his initiative, the Artists' Association was founded in April 1990 , in which artists with a realistic, representational orientation came together.

His work includes surrealist landscapes that were created in the mid-1950s under the influence of Max Ernst , and abstract compositions that he broke with in the early 1960s. From 1962 he worked in all classical genres, giving superficial things a deeper meaning: landscape, portrait, still life, history picture. His portrait of Willy Brandt from 1973 for the Berlin Ehrenbürgergalerie captures something of the tentative nature of the Bonn ambience. His “Berlin still life” also became famous.

Manfred Bluth died in Berlin in 2002 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. He himself created the grave monument from a narrow stele with a bronze head.

Selected publications

  • Worldview and world of images. A painter's notes at the end of time and art. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-422-00786-5 .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Saur General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 11: Biklar - Bobrov. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 , p. 654.
  • Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Volume V, Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 316.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Bluth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 578.
personal data
SURNAME Bluth, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2002
Place of death Berlin