Manfred Güthler

Manfred Güthler (2008)

Manfred Güthler (* 1927 in Saarbrücken ) is a German painter , graphic artist and graduate designer .

biography

Güthler, son of a Swabian architect, began studying architecture at the State Building School in Strasbourg in 1944 , but had to drop it off due to the war; he was drafted into the labor service in the air force. Güthler was a prisoner of war until 1947. Then he learned the trade of bricklayer. After successfully completing his apprenticeship examination, he studied commercial graphics at the Saarbrücken School for Arts and Crafts from 1949 to 1954 under Professors Boris Kleint , Otto Steinert , Hannes Neuner and Karl Lorenz Kunz and at the Paris Académie des Beaux Arts . To finance his studies, Güthler worked as a draftsman and carpenter. From 1954 to 1960 he worked as a freelance graphic designer, after which he worked as a faculty draftsman until 1964 at the Saarland University . In 1970 he was employed as an art teacher at grammar schools in Saarbrücken and Völklingen; he practiced this profession until 1992.

For 26 years Güthler was a founding member and first Saarland state chairman of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) (1976–2002). He was then appointed honorary chairman of this professional association. Furthermore, from 1986 to 1992 he was the honorary director of the Saarland Artists' House and taught as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule of the Saarbrücken City Association as well as at other Saarland adult education centers. Güthler has been the curator of the Kulturforum Bahnhof Püttlingen since the early 1990s. The artist also worked as an expert in the Saarbrücken City Council and the Saarland Ministry of Culture. He lives and works in Saarbrücken .

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Güthler's work was initially very time-critical. At the beginning of the seventies, under the impression of the changing society, he dealt artistically with current political and social events. In his older works he did this with precise lines that characterized his naturalistic way of working. The artist broke away from this creative phase and continued to develop into an ever more free design of his works. The monotype now became his preferred artistic medium. Here he created portraits, nudes and other figurative representations, in whose lines he put his own feelings. Güthler used the peculiarity of the monotype to produce slight blurring and inaccuracies during the printing process. The artist achieved a high level of mastery in this technique.

In a further creative phase, Güthler pushed the physicality of his motifs more and more into the background. The Saarbrücken art critic Brigitte Quack: "The physicality takes a back seat in favor of an appearance that is attached to the two-dimensional surface, which due to the technology brings with it the factor of the unpredictable. Loose color particles and loosely combined color surfaces do the rest, the impression of the intangible, the imaginary let develop."

literature

• Marvel at works by Güthler. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (edition of Saarbrücken City Association) v. February 15, 2002
• Quack, Brigitte: The line becomes a carrier of feelings. Works by Manfred Güthler. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (edition of Saarbrücken City Association) v. February 18, 2002.
• Krämer, Kerstin: Optimism is its engine - Manfred Güthler. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (edition regional association) v. 10/11 January 2009, p. C9

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