Werner Grund

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Werner Grund (born June 24, 1919 in Gerabronn ; † August 21, 2006 ibid) was a German painter and glass painter .

Life

Werner Grund was the son of the painter Johann Grund, who had been trained by Christian Landenberger in Stuttgart . Grund first learned the trade of wood merchant. In 1938 he was obliged to do labor service and in 1939 he was drafted into military service. It was not until 1947, after the war and imprisonment, that he was able to begin studying at the Free Art School in Stuttgart. He interrupted his studies for family reasons, but undertook his first trips to Italy and Ticino, following the tradition of landscape painting . In 1956 he went to Stuttgart again to study with Rudolf Yelin the Younger and Manfred Henninger at the Academy of Fine Arts . Since 1959 he worked as a freelance artist. In 1960 he received the Hohenloher Art Prize.

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What Grund had learned in Stuttgart in the glass painting and mosaic class at Yelin was initially his livelihood. He carried out numerous orders for mosaic work and concrete and leaded glass windows. In Gerabronn, for example, he created a natural stone mosaic for the Protestant church and designed a wall made of glass stones in the funeral hall of the cemetery.

Parallel to the commissioned work, he developed his painting. Although Willi Baumeister's spirit prevailed in Stuttgart in the post-war period and non-representational painting set the tone, Grund maintained his point of view. He kept creating color compositions, but the landscape remained his very own concern. As a pupil of Manfred Henninger, who in turn was a pupil of Christian Landenberger, he knew how to use color in a unique way, but still oriented towards the motif. He contrasted the dark-toned painting of the Swabian school with a bright, luminous color. Although he explored areas in Brittany and Provence , Tuscany , Sicily and Crete , traveled to Greece and Yugoslavia , was on the North Sea and Lake Neusiedl , he devoted his main attention to the native landscape of Hohenlohe , which inspired him, which he did recorded in long walks and reproduced unmistakably.

In his acrylic paintings and watercolors , he showed wintry fields and summery meadows that are aligned on the horizon, that is, related to the distance. Nevertheless, there is a close-up view, especially with the pictures of the flower meadows, which build up in large shapes from the lower edge of the picture and shimmer upwards. Although the meadows stretch into the format like carpets, they are spatially laid out; although the color is applied informally, it creates the image of flowers and grass.

literature

  • Reason, Werner . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , p. 446.
  • Werner Grund . Hohenloher Kunstverein Langenburg, exhibition catalog for the exhibition from September 9 to October 14, 1984. Ed. Hohenloher Kunstverein 1984. Crailsheim 1984.
  • Barbara Riederer, The Insatiability of the Eye. The landscape of Werner Grund . In: Der Kunsthandel , 81st year, April 1989, p. 30.
  • Philipp Wankmüller, his view of things remains alive. The painter Werner Grund died at the age of 87 . In: Hohenloher Tagblatt from August 23, 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Reason, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerabronn
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2006
Place of death Gerabronn