Manfred Luther

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Manfred Luther (1986)

Ernst Manfred Luther (born November 28, 1925 in Dresden ; † January 11, 2004 there ) was a German constructivist , artist and philosopher .

Circle picture by Manfred Luther (1999)
Owl with peace branch, collage with wax pencil and gold paper (1977)

Life

Career

Ernst Manfred Luther was born in 1925 as the son of Leonore Günther (1896 Manchester - 1976 Dresden), b. Uhle, (former Luther), and the engineer Ernst Wilhelm Luther (1893–1959) were born in the Dresden district of Mickten . He had two brothers, Siegfried Luther (1922-2006), a car mechanic and designer, and Wolfram A. Guenther (* 1929; † April 8, 2020), who worked as an actor. From Easter 1932 to 1940 Luther attended elementary school in the Trachau district of Dresden . From 1940 to 1943 he completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman at the Ihagee camera factory ( Steenbergen & Co.) in Dresden-Striesen . From 1943 to 1945 he did his military service in the Second World War on the Western Front (France). After a bullet through and a bullet in both legs, he went to hospital in Annaberg (Saxony). In 1950 he returned to Dresden from French captivity. From 1952 to 1955 Luther worked as a designer at VEB Elektroschaltgeräte Dresden. In 1954 he married the painter Ingrid Luther, Verw. Hennig, b. Lamprecht, 1926 in Klein-Stirlack († 2005). They lived together in Dresden- Oberloschwitz , Alpenstrasse 2. Ingrid Luther brought her son Fritz Hennig (* 1949) into the marriage. In 1993 they both moved to Weißig . At the end of 1999 he had the first health problems. He withdrew to his home environment. Since then, the focus has been on his works and his family. In January 2004 he died in Dresden-Weißig. He was buried in the Dresden Heidefriedhof .

Artistic development on various topics

He learned his first artistic basics from his wife Ingrid Luther. She, in turn, had received her craft in the training workshops for arts and crafts in Dresden (1st painting school in Dresden) from Fritz Leopold Hennig . She enabled her husband to depict perspectives of objects and human anatomy in the correct proportions, as well as the first techniques of art painting (charcoal, oil, ink). He was used to using pencil and ink, so he could concentrate on the new techniques in which his wife was teaching him.

His early works from the 1950s include realistic drawings of people, faces and animals as well as views of Dresden. From 1955 Luther was a freelance painter and graphic artist. As an autodidact, he worked with a wide variety of writings, artists and philosophers. Representatives of Horace , Confucius , Martin Luther , Wolfgang Goethe , Immanuel Kant , Henri Matisse , Paul Klee and Kasimir Severinovich Malevich are mentioned.

At the beginning of his career, Manfred Luther came across Walter Gropius († 1969), whom he adored; both got to know each other personally. From 1962 to 1966 Luther studied with Ernst Hassebrauk . First contacts with Fritz Löffler (art historian) and Hermann Glöckner (constructivist painter) came about in 1965, furthermore with Georg Karl Pfahler (concrete art), Friedrich Press (painter) and Peter Damm (horn player). Through the art historian Ingrid Adler, wife of Karl-Heinz Adler (painter, graphic artist and conceptual artist), who campaigned for the specific artists of the GDR with lectures, publications and exhibitions at home and abroad, the Dresden specific artists Manfred Luther and Wilhelm Müller (dentist, painter of concrete art) established a close friendly relationship, which u. a. manifested in joint exhibitions.

In the period from 1956 to 1962 there was the “fermentation process” of the graphic work “Concrete Drawings”. In this work, 24 concrete figures were implemented, consisting of circles, squares, triangles, oval and parallelograms, as well as their combinations. From 1960 to 1968 Luther completed the 24 black ink sheets for the “Concrete Drawings”. In a second group of works (1976–1985) he created screen prints in black, white and gray. The third independent group of works, Paraphrases, “Idea Concrete Drawings”, produced as ink drawings and screen prints, also fell during this period. Sketchy didactic publications on the paraphrases and written notes ran along as independent contributions and concluded the work “Idea Concrete Drawings”. From 1983 to 1986 the concrete figures were implemented in color as a screen printing cycle “Colored Epilogue - on Earth Days”.

From 1980 to 1994, a variety of works and episodes were created in parallel, including “Ab ovo - Vom Uranfang an” (the so-called spiral), executed in lacquer colors. During this period, Luther created the first works on his main work of the series “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am.) And “Without beginning, without end” (circle pictures). This is considered to be the culmination of his thoughts and work. Furthermore, the work “Ashes to Ashes” was created using various techniques, e. B. Collage, and mostly executed in oil pastel and screen printing. In addition, Luther created a subgroup “Ab origine - Vom Uranfang an” (color mixes) for the episode “Ab ovo”, mainly in lacquer colors.

Luther had his first solo exhibition in 1982 at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf near Dresden with the recommendation of the Culture Commission under the direction of Reinhard Koch. Since then, other solo and group exhibitions have followed. Despite the advocacy of Karl-Heinz Adler, Fritz Löffler and Werner Schmidt, Manfred Luther's application to join the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR was rejected. In 1991 he took a working holiday in Jürgen Blum's studio in Hünfeld (Hesse); In the same year the catalog “ Idea Concrete Drawings” appeared . In 1992 Manfred Luther became a member of the German Association of Artists. After moving to Weißig near Dresden (incorporated in 1999), he created a few more circular images, spirals and color mixtures, so-called “mixtures” (cosmos, universe, alpha) in different paints. Luther had his last studio in his basement. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death in 2014, the Städtische Galerie Dresden presented the Manfred Luther exhibition in the Landhaus . The long way to the circle , for which a second comprehensive exhibition catalog was published. Some works from the exhibition can be seen in a video.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1982: Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf near Dresden (Culture Commission under Dr. Reinhard Koch)
  • 1991: "Manfred Luther - Idea Concrete Drawings", exhibition in the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden (Dr. Werner Schmidt)
  • 1992: Galerie Beatrix Wilhelm, Stuttgart
  • 1994: Galerie Teufel-Holze, Dresden
  • 1994: Galerie Heinz Teufel, Mahlberg
  • 1994: Galerie am Blauen Wunder, Dresden (Gunter Ziller)
  • 1999: "Ashes to ashes - matter to matter" (district), house gable Lindenstrasse 8, Hünfeld (Hesse)
  • 2004: Hieronymus Gallery, Dresden
  • 2007: “I think, therefore I am” , exhibition at the Saxon State Medical Association .
  • 2014: "Manfred Luther, The Long Way to the Circle" , Dresden City Gallery (Gisbert Porstmann, Carolin Quermann)
  • 2015: Kaffeestübchen, Fetscherstr. 111, Dresden "Stylized Faces + King Solomon"
  • 2016: Exhibition: Manfred Luther 24 figures "Idea Concrete Drawings" - "Colored Epilogue - On Earth Days" , K16 am Rhein, Duisburg ( http://www.kunst-konzepte-realisation.de/navigation/manfred-luther.html )

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1977: Academy of Sciences, Berlin (East)
  • 1980: “Gouaches and tempera sheets by artists from the GDR”, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 1981: Galerie Kühl , Dresden
  • 1984: "Form, color, geometry - Hermann Glöckner on his 95th birthday", Neue Dresdener Galerie, Dresden
  • 1988: "Donation Slava and Fritz Löffler", Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett; IV. International Triennial of Drawing, Wrocław / Poland; "Dresden Constructivists", Galerie am Thomaskirchhof, Leipzig
  • 1989: “Hommage à Hermann Glöckner”, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 1990: “Erben des Bauhauses”, project gallery “New Space”, Fulda; "Constructive currents FRG-GDR-Poland", Ars Polona Gallery, Düsseldorf; “Covered Collecting”, special exhibition by the Dresden State Art Collections, Kupferstich-Kabinett for Art Cologne, Cologne; Galerie Kühl, Dresden; “New acquisitions”, Dresden State Art Collections, New Masters Gallery
  • 1990/91: "tendency constructive + concrete", Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder and Schloss Elisabethenberg, Meiningen; "The Art of Collage in the GDR", Brandenburg Art Collections Cottbus; Rostock art gallery; Museum square Bottrop
  • 1991: “Art that didn't exist? - Konstruktiv und Konkret from the former GDR ”, exhibition in the House for Constructive and Concrete Art, Zurich ; “100 works from the Lichtenstein Collection”, Göpfersdorf / Saxony; State Lindenau Museum, Altenburg. In: Catalog Art that Didn't Exist? Printing: 1991 CB Artwork GmbH, Munich.
  • 1992: "November Pictures 1989–92", Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus; Wiligrad Castle Gallery, Wiligrad Art Association V., Lübstorf; Salustowicz Gallery, Bielefeld; Veste art collections, Coburg
  • 1993: "Abstract - the German Association of Artists in Dresden", Dresden; “Concrete constructive”, Galerie Schloss Wiligrad, Kunstverein Wiligrad e. V., Lübstorf / Schwerin; Art Frankfurt, Galerie Heinz Teufel, Mahlberg; Forum concrete art Erfurt. Museum of Artists, Peterskirche-Petersberg, Erfurt
  • 1994: Wiligrad Castle Gallery, Wiligrad Art Association e. V., Lübstorf / Schwerin; "Delimitation" Norddeutsche Landesbank, Bonn, Güstrow, Schwerin, Magdeburg, Hanover
  • 1996: "Spirale II - Contemporary Art from Dresden", Swieradow / Poland
  • 1996: "Constructive-Concrete Art in Saxony Today", Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz. In: Catalog Konstruktiv-Konkrete Kunst in Sachsen today , 1996; Publisher: Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz.
  • 1997: Art Market, Dresden
  • 1999: Lichtenstein Collection, Lindenau Museum Altenburg; Art market, Dresden
  • 2000: “Novemberbilder”, Japanisches Palais, Dresden; Art market Dresden
  • 2001: Art market, Dresden Castle
  • 2002: “Novemberbilder”, Art-In Gallery, Meerane
  • 2002: "Europe - Concrete - Reductive", Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld (Hessen). In: Catalog Europe - Concrete - Reductive 2002; Publisher: Hünfeld City Council Jürgen Blum.
  • 2003: "Europe - Concrete - Reductive", Wroclaw Architecture Museum
  • 2003: Art in the GDR, National Gallery Berlin
  • 2003: Fascination Art + Technology. Radiation, University Collections Art + Technology , TU Dresden
  • 2005: "200 Years of Art in Dresden", Dresden City Gallery
  • 2005: Gallery of Waldenburg (with Karl-Heinz Adler and Frank Maibier)
  • 2006–12: "MOTIVA INTERNATIONAL KONSTRUKTIV KONKRET INTELLIGIBEL", permanent exhibition Austria Center Vienna .
  • 2006: "Impulse. Positions of Dresden Artists “, University Collections Art + Technology in the Altana Gallery of the TU Dresden
  • 2009: Specifically - The Heinz + Anette Teufel Collection, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
  • 2010: “Abstract tendency”, from the collection of the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder).
  • 2013: 2nd exhibition "Points and lines to the surface", gallery 2nd floor, New Town Hall, Dresden
  • 2013/2014: Special exhibition in caféart "Manfred Luther, Paraphrasen" for the exhibition "Don't be afraid in the dark", University Collections Art + Technology in the Altana, gallery of the TU Dresden
  • 2015: FORUM KONKRETE KUNST Erfurt in the Peterskirche as a permanent exhibition with a work "Cogito ergo sum"
  • 2015: Galerie Himmel Dresden: "Hermann Glöckner & Manfred Luther", KONKRET. Unique works in the cabinet for the exhibition "Werner Lieberknecht"; photography
  • 2015/2016: “Rendezvous der Länder” - new opening in the Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; Works from the Peter C. Ruppert Collection - Concrete Art in Europe after 1945
  • 2015/16 "10 Years of the Dresden City Gallery" - acquisitions and donations
  • 2015/16 "Schaudepot # 7 / Abstract Pictures" - An exhibition in the painting depot of the Kunstfonds Dresden ( http://www.skd.museum/de/ueber-uns/presse/mitteilung-archiv/article/schaudepot-7-abstrakte- pictures / index.html )
  • 2015/16 exhibition "concrete on paper" in KUNST KONZEPTE REALIZATION, K16 am Rhein, Duisburg ( http://www.kunst-konzepte-realisation.de/ausstellungen )
  • 2016 "Geometric from Dresden from 1920 to 2016" Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin ( http://www.galerie-gebr-lehmann.de/exhibitions/virus-form-geometrisches-aus-dresden-von-1920-bis-2016 / ) with an MDR contribution (unfortunately no longer available).
  • 2016: Virus Shape. Geometrical things from Dresden from 1920 to 2016. Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, currently in Dresden [1]
  • 2017 "The painter, constructivist and philosopher Manfred Luther" Lecture on the 13th history market of TU Dresden
  • 2017/18 "Specific Issues. Teufel Collection" with two works in the Stuttgart Art Museum
  • 2017 "Konstruktiv - Konkrete" The art of individual realism, with two works in the Galerie Objekt40 in Berlin, Schlüterstrasse
  • 2017/18: "Grafik Ost" Sprengel Museum in Hanover, represented by five screen prints
  • 2018: "RASTERN; screen printing in Dresden from the beginnings to the present" with six works in the galleries Leonhardi-Museum Dresden and Galerie Hieronymus

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: "Manfred Luther - Idea Concrete Drawings" , publisher: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, ISBN 3-923717-72-5 , 1991
  • Exhibition catalog: “Art that didn't exist? - Constructive and concrete from the former GDR ” , Zurich, CB Artwork GmbH, September 13 - November 24, 1991
  • Sigrid Walther: "Fritz Löffler 1899-1988", M. Sandstein Verlag 1999; ISBN 3-930382-31-8
  • In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen 1/2007. ISSN  0938-8478 .
  • In: Catalog MOTIVA 2005, printing: Heinelt, Service + Druck.
  • In: Catalog 2006. ISBN 3-86005-509-7 .
  • Otto-R. Wenzel: "Artists on the Dresden Elbhang" in Volume II, page 284
  • Exhibition catalog: “MANFRED LUTHER - The long way to the circle”, publisher: Städtische Galerie Dresden - Kunstsammlung, Gisbert Porstmann and Carolin Quermann; Contribution by DRESDENEINS.TV: ( [2] )
  • Abstraction in State Socialism - Enmities and Freedom in the Art System of the GDR http://www.vdg-weimar.de/katalog/abstraktion_im_staatssozialismus-157.html
  • "Constructive-concrete art in the GDR" The art of individual realism. Volume 1 , editor Ingrid Adler 2016; ISBN 978-3-942106-44-3

Web links

Commons : Manfred Luther  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrid Luther - City Wiki Dresden. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ingrid Adler. In: Stadtwiki Dresden. October 19, 2019, accessed April 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Müller. In: Stadtwiki Dresden. March 8, 2020, accessed April 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Manfred Luther _ The long way to the circle. In: Dresdeneins.tv. Archived from the original on June 13, 2016 ; Retrieved April 14, 2020 (reproduced on Vimeo).
  5. ↑ Documented in: The open book 2. Printing: Druckerei Heinelt
  6. ↑ Manfred Luther - I think, therefore, I am in the Ärzteblatt Sachsen 1/2007 (PDF). ( Memento of July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  7. ↑ Highlights in the Waldenburg Gallery. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  8. ^ Manfred Luther in the Altana gallery of the TU Dresden. ( Memento of June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ Tendency abstract on museum-junge-kunst.de . Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  10. ^ Volume II of "Artists on the Dresden Elbhang" on ortsverein-loschwitz-wachwitz.de. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Luther, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luther, Ernst Manfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constructivist, artist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2004
Place of death Dresden