Gerhard Guenther

BIOGRAPHY

Lives and works in Aachen
1949 Born in Goldbeck /Sachsen-Anhalt, East Germany (formerly GDR)
Early childhood spent with grandmother in a village near Stendal, East Germany (formerly GDR)
1958 Emigration to Mönchengladbach / BRD (formerly West Germany)
Regular stays in Stendal until 1967

1970 Application and rejection at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1980 until 1981 at Folkwangschule Essen

2008 until 2009 at Freie Kunstakademie Nürtingen

Since 1989 various exhibitions


ASPECTS OF ARTISTIC WORK
Initiated by a great interest in and observation of obscure daily events, motives develop. Random and often incidental impressions and developments of daily experiences from TV, newspaper and conversations result in a pointed overlay in the picture. With pleasure in obscure exaggerations, the pictures reflect aspects of bewildering life - sometimes in real but also in dreamlike scenes. Figures of the known and familiar are being exaggerated. However, only through the exaggeration a different perspective develops. Besides the motif, the painterly aspect is of great importance. The completeness of the scene is always also to be viewed from a painterly aspect as well as the question of the picture's "žcor...

• 1989 Sittard, The Netherlands
Group exhibition / de Melkfabrik
• 1991 Aachen, Germany
Deserteure / Group exhibition
• 1992 Köln / Naumburg, Germany
Deserteure / Group exhibition
• 1995 Aachen, Germany
Design of election posters for the political convention of the SPD
• 1998 Aachen, Germany
Haus Kadenbach / solo exhibition
• 2001 Heerlen, The Netherlands
St Andreas Kerk / solo exhibition
• 2010 Aachen, Germany
Art for Roman / solo exhibition
• 2011 Aachen, Germany
Exhibition Dialogue at AHA Atelierhaus
• 2011 Maastricht, The Netherlands
KunstTour 2011 / group exhibition
• 2011 Aachen, Germany
BBK / group exhibition
• 2011 Aachen, Germany
Aula Carolina, „Die anderen Zehn“ (The Other Ten) / group exhibition
• 2011 Aachen, Germany
Annual AHA Atelierhaus Aachen exhibition / group exhibition