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Günther Förg | A Fragile Beauty | Dallas Museum of Art | https://www.dma.org/ | „Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty“ surveys the prolific and provocative career of the late artist Günther Förg (1952-2013). Förg was closely associated with the Cologne scene of the 1980s, a group of irreverent artists who challenged the traditions of painting. This exhibition—the first major museum presentation of his work in the United States since 1989—will bring renewed attention to Förg’s work by examining his legacy in relation to key issues of the 20th century, including postwar nostalgia and loss and the utopianism of high modernism.
Exposition Günther Förg | Galerie Lelong Paris | https://www.galerie-lelong.com/fr/ | YouTube |
GÜNTHER FÖRG | A FRAGILE BEAUTY | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/de | YouTube | The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents a major survey of the work of German artist Günther Förg (1952–2013). ‚A Fragile Beauty‘ explores the work of a rebellious artist whose oeuvre embodies a critical, witty, yet rigorous and penetrating critique of the canon of modern art.
Günther Förg |1953-2013 | Abstract Expressionism | Neo-Minimalism German | YouTube | Günther Förg (5 December 1952 – 5 December 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting. Förg was born in Füssen, Allgäu. His father, Michael, worked in a customs office. He studied from 1973 until 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen. From 1992 until 1999, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. From 1999 on he was a professor in Munich. He had a home in Areuse, Switzerland, as well as in Freiburg. In 1993 he married Ika Huber. Förg’s artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His geometrical, abstract, and heavily-dyed pictures have a strong decorative character. Förg combined materials and media in painting, sculpture and photography. The themes of his large scale architectural photographs are Bauhaus and fascist aesthetics, while his monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art. Between 1973 (Förg’s first year as a student at The Academy of Fine Art Munich) and 1976, Förg painted almost exclusively black monochrome canvas pictures in acrylic, which, with the addition of a translucent grey, produced a milky, veiled surface effect. After the death of his artistic colleague, Blinky Palermo, Förg pursued the latter’s European legacy of American Minimal Art from 1977. His paintings in abstract styles recall Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly and others. In the early 1980s, Förg made his so-called Alubilder – assemblages of aluminium sheeting onto which the artist had painted linear patterns or portrait photographs. For his series of paintings on lead, dating from the 1980s and 1990s, he wrapped lead sheets over wood, then painted each surface with acrylic. Förg started using photography in his work at the beginning of the 1980s. In the area of photography he is known for his works from 1980–2006, primarily very large formats showing famous architectural sites such as the Wittgenstein House, Casa Malaparte, Casa del Fascio, and Hans Poelzig’s IG Farben Building in Frankfurt. For this purpose he travelled extensively to Spain, Israel, Austria, Russia, France, Turkey and Italy where he primarily photographed Bauhaus buildings. Förg’s photographic research using a 35 mm camera and zoom lenses presents the uncompromisingly modern architecture in an unembellished way, sometimes dilapidated, often featuring careless renovations or additions. His photographs of buildings with cultural and political significance — Bauhaus structures in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, for example, or Fascist ones in Italy — were taken from unusual, sharp-angled perspectives, with off-center framing and often in grainy focus, suggestive of painting. Many of the photographs are views taken through windows that draw attention to transitions from interior to exterior space. The photographs are presented under thick protective glass reflecting the room and the viewer. In 1988, as part of the Sculpture in the City exhibition, Förg installed two-metre-long walls of mirrors in a Rotterdam tube station; they were demolished in 1999. Beginning in 1992, paintings and works on paper, known and documented in literature as "Gitterbilder" (grid paintings), appear in Förg’s work. The roots for these pieces, however, are to be found in an earlier series, the so-called "Fenster-Aquarelle" (window watercolors): the crossbar forms a grid for the space in the image, which provides the frame for a whole flow of paintings without limiting their free display and development. In 1991 for the opening of Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst, Förg produced a colorful wall piece for the central stairway, which together with a bronze relief formed a contrast to the architectural structure of the post-modern museum architecture. In 2000, he was commissioned with designs for Swiss Re’s Centre for Global Dialogue in Zurich. For this project Forg handled the color design for all of the interiors in the 1920s Villa Bodmer and installed two enormous tubes of raw metal in its central entrance hall. He died, aged 61, in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | YouTube
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AUSBILDUNG GÜNTHER FÖRG
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MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
AUSZEICHNUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
SAMMLUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
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Günther Förg | A Fragile Beauty | Dallas Museum of Art | https://www.dma.org/ | „Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty“ surveys the prolific and provocative career of the late artist Günther Förg (1952-2013). Förg was closely associated with the Cologne scene of the 1980s, a group of irreverent artists who challenged the traditions of painting. This exhibition—the first major museum presentation of his work in the United States since 1989—will bring renewed attention to Förg’s work by examining his legacy in relation to key issues of the 20th century, including postwar nostalgia and loss and the utopianism of high modernism.
Exposition Günther Förg | Galerie Lelong Paris | https://www.galerie-lelong.com/fr/ | YouTube |
GÜNTHER FÖRG | A FRAGILE BEAUTY | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/de | YouTube | The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents a major survey of the work of German artist Günther Förg (1952–2013). ‚A Fragile Beauty‘ explores the work of a rebellious artist whose oeuvre embodies a critical, witty, yet rigorous and penetrating critique of the canon of modern art.
Günther Förg |1953-2013 | Abstract Expressionism | Neo-Minimalism German | YouTube | Günther Förg (5 December 1952 – 5 December 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting. Förg was born in Füssen, Allgäu. His father, Michael, worked in a customs office. He studied from 1973 until 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen. From 1992 until 1999, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. From 1999 on he was a professor in Munich. He had a home in Areuse, Switzerland, as well as in Freiburg. In 1993 he married Ika Huber. Förg’s artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His geometrical, abstract, and heavily-dyed pictures have a strong decorative character. Förg combined materials and media in painting, sculpture and photography. The themes of his large scale architectural photographs are Bauhaus and fascist aesthetics, while his monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art. Between 1973 (Förg’s first year as a student at The Academy of Fine Art Munich) and 1976, Förg painted almost exclusively black monochrome canvas pictures in acrylic, which, with the addition of a translucent grey, produced a milky, veiled surface effect. After the death of his artistic colleague, Blinky Palermo, Förg pursued the latter’s European legacy of American Minimal Art from 1977. His paintings in abstract styles recall Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly and others. In the early 1980s, Förg made his so-called Alubilder – assemblages of aluminium sheeting onto which the artist had painted linear patterns or portrait photographs. For his series of paintings on lead, dating from the 1980s and 1990s, he wrapped lead sheets over wood, then painted each surface with acrylic. Förg started using photography in his work at the beginning of the 1980s. In the area of photography he is known for his works from 1980–2006, primarily very large formats showing famous architectural sites such as the Wittgenstein House, Casa Malaparte, Casa del Fascio, and Hans Poelzig’s IG Farben Building in Frankfurt. For this purpose he travelled extensively to Spain, Israel, Austria, Russia, France, Turkey and Italy where he primarily photographed Bauhaus buildings. Förg’s photographic research using a 35 mm camera and zoom lenses presents the uncompromisingly modern architecture in an unembellished way, sometimes dilapidated, often featuring careless renovations or additions. His photographs of buildings with cultural and political significance — Bauhaus structures in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, for example, or Fascist ones in Italy — were taken from unusual, sharp-angled perspectives, with off-center framing and often in grainy focus, suggestive of painting. Many of the photographs are views taken through windows that draw attention to transitions from interior to exterior space. The photographs are presented under thick protective glass reflecting the room and the viewer. In 1988, as part of the Sculpture in the City exhibition, Förg installed two-metre-long walls of mirrors in a Rotterdam tube station; they were demolished in 1999. Beginning in 1992, paintings and works on paper, known and documented in literature as "Gitterbilder" (grid paintings), appear in Förg’s work. The roots for these pieces, however, are to be found in an earlier series, the so-called "Fenster-Aquarelle" (window watercolors): the crossbar forms a grid for the space in the image, which provides the frame for a whole flow of paintings without limiting their free display and development. In 1991 for the opening of Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst, Förg produced a colorful wall piece for the central stairway, which together with a bronze relief formed a contrast to the architectural structure of the post-modern museum architecture. In 2000, he was commissioned with designs for Swiss Re’s Centre for Global Dialogue in Zurich. For this project Forg handled the color design for all of the interiors in the 1920s Villa Bodmer and installed two enormous tubes of raw metal in its central entrance hall. He died, aged 61, in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | YouTube
VIDEO | FILM GÜNTHER FÖRG
BIOGRAFIE GÜNTHER FÖRG
GEBURTSJAHR | GEBURTSORT | TODESJAHR | STERBEORT
AUSBILDUNG GÜNTHER FÖRG
LEHRTÄTIGKEIT GÜNTHER FÖRG
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
AUSZEICHNUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
SAMMLUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
AUSSTELLUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
PROJEKTE / SYMPOSIEN
WERKBESCHREIBUNG GÜNTHER FÖRG
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
STIL
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
STICHWORTE GÜNTHER FÖRG
ZITATE GÜNTHER FÖRG
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÜNTHER FÖRG
LINKS GÜNTHER FÖRG
HOMEPAGE GÜNTHER FÖRG
WIKIPEDIA GÜNTHER FÖRG
GÜNTHER FÖRG
Beitrag in Bearbeitung!
KUNSTWERKE GÜNTHER FÖRG
Günther Förg | A Fragile Beauty | Dallas Museum of Art | https://www.dma.org/ | „Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty“ surveys the prolific and provocative career of the late artist Günther Förg (1952-2013). Förg was closely associated with the Cologne scene of the 1980s, a group of irreverent artists who challenged the traditions of painting. This exhibition—the first major museum presentation of his work in the United States since 1989—will bring renewed attention to Förg’s work by examining his legacy in relation to key issues of the 20th century, including postwar nostalgia and loss and the utopianism of high modernism.
Exposition Günther Förg | Galerie Lelong Paris | https://www.galerie-lelong.com/fr/ | YouTube |
GÜNTHER FÖRG | A FRAGILE BEAUTY | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/de | YouTube | The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents a major survey of the work of German artist Günther Förg (1952–2013). ‚A Fragile Beauty‘ explores the work of a rebellious artist whose oeuvre embodies a critical, witty, yet rigorous and penetrating critique of the canon of modern art.
Günther Förg |1953-2013 | Abstract Expressionism | Neo-Minimalism German | YouTube | Günther Förg (5 December 1952 – 5 December 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting. Förg was born in Füssen, Allgäu. His father, Michael, worked in a customs office. He studied from 1973 until 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen. From 1992 until 1999, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. From 1999 on he was a professor in Munich. He had a home in Areuse, Switzerland, as well as in Freiburg. In 1993 he married Ika Huber. Förg’s artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His geometrical, abstract, and heavily-dyed pictures have a strong decorative character. Förg combined materials and media in painting, sculpture and photography. The themes of his large scale architectural photographs are Bauhaus and fascist aesthetics, while his monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art. Between 1973 (Förg’s first year as a student at The Academy of Fine Art Munich) and 1976, Förg painted almost exclusively black monochrome canvas pictures in acrylic, which, with the addition of a translucent grey, produced a milky, veiled surface effect. After the death of his artistic colleague, Blinky Palermo, Förg pursued the latter’s European legacy of American Minimal Art from 1977. His paintings in abstract styles recall Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly and others. In the early 1980s, Förg made his so-called Alubilder – assemblages of aluminium sheeting onto which the artist had painted linear patterns or portrait photographs. For his series of paintings on lead, dating from the 1980s and 1990s, he wrapped lead sheets over wood, then painted each surface with acrylic. Förg started using photography in his work at the beginning of the 1980s. In the area of photography he is known for his works from 1980–2006, primarily very large formats showing famous architectural sites such as the Wittgenstein House, Casa Malaparte, Casa del Fascio, and Hans Poelzig’s IG Farben Building in Frankfurt. For this purpose he travelled extensively to Spain, Israel, Austria, Russia, France, Turkey and Italy where he primarily photographed Bauhaus buildings. Förg’s photographic research using a 35 mm camera and zoom lenses presents the uncompromisingly modern architecture in an unembellished way, sometimes dilapidated, often featuring careless renovations or additions. His photographs of buildings with cultural and political significance — Bauhaus structures in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, for example, or Fascist ones in Italy — were taken from unusual, sharp-angled perspectives, with off-center framing and often in grainy focus, suggestive of painting. Many of the photographs are views taken through windows that draw attention to transitions from interior to exterior space. The photographs are presented under thick protective glass reflecting the room and the viewer. In 1988, as part of the Sculpture in the City exhibition, Förg installed two-metre-long walls of mirrors in a Rotterdam tube station; they were demolished in 1999. Beginning in 1992, paintings and works on paper, known and documented in literature as "Gitterbilder" (grid paintings), appear in Förg’s work. The roots for these pieces, however, are to be found in an earlier series, the so-called "Fenster-Aquarelle" (window watercolors): the crossbar forms a grid for the space in the image, which provides the frame for a whole flow of paintings without limiting their free display and development. In 1991 for the opening of Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst, Förg produced a colorful wall piece for the central stairway, which together with a bronze relief formed a contrast to the architectural structure of the post-modern museum architecture. In 2000, he was commissioned with designs for Swiss Re’s Centre for Global Dialogue in Zurich. For this project Forg handled the color design for all of the interiors in the 1920s Villa Bodmer and installed two enormous tubes of raw metal in its central entrance hall. He died, aged 61, in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | YouTube
VIDEO | FILM GÜNTHER FÖRG
BIOGRAFIE GÜNTHER FÖRG
GEBURTSJAHR | GEBURTSORT | TODESJAHR | STERBEORT
AUSBILDUNG GÜNTHER FÖRG
LEHRTÄTIGKEIT GÜNTHER FÖRG
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
AUSZEICHNUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
SAMMLUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
AUSSTELLUNGEN GÜNTHER FÖRG
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
PROJEKTE / SYMPOSIEN
WERKBESCHREIBUNG GÜNTHER FÖRG
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
STIL
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
STICHWORTE GÜNTHER FÖRG
ZITATE GÜNTHER FÖRG
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÜNTHER FÖRG
LINKS GÜNTHER FÖRG
HOMEPAGE GÜNTHER FÖRG
WIKIPEDIA GÜNTHER FÖRG
