Guenter Limburg

Guenter Limburg Text by Juergen Schoen
Why does someone become a painter and not a poet? And why does he paint in such a way and not differently? An interesting questions anyway, but difficult to answer, if we do not want to dive into the depths of psychological speculations. But there are some starting points which may help the viewer to understand the work of an artist a little bit better.For example with Genter Limburg, born in Kall in 1960 and there grown up, a small Eifel town, which one probably hardly brings in connection with forming art. There in school it was his art teacher Gyoergy Asvany, who woke the feeling in his pupil that drawing and painting can help to express feelings, can help to arrange thoughts, too. The idea to become a painter, to study art settled within the young man - and still as a pupil he applied to the professional school for fine art and design in Cologne. There it was the Czech Pravoslav Sovak, who took Limburg under his wings. This professor of fine arts, who demanded mental, social and political argumentation from his students as much as the refinement of their graphical skills. Fantasy and creativity is the one side of the art. The other one focused well-planned work. In so-called "monthly pro...

Exhibitions (selection):1994: Galerie Ruchti, Modern Art, Cologne; Projet Est/Ouest, Avon / F; Christus Kirche, Homburg v. d. Hoehe (with works of Ludwig Meidner);Charly Martin Kunsthandel, Sonsbeck (with Antonius Hoeckelmann)1995: BBG Villa Horten, Duisburg; Projet Est/Ouest, Dresden; Harzburger Hof, Bad Harzburg( with A. R. Penck ); Charly Martin Kunsthandel, Sonsbeck (with Joerg Immendorff and Corrado Simeoni); 1996: Kunsthalle Kubus, Duisburg; Kunststation Ruchti, Bonn; Jesuitenkonvikt, A. R. PenckHeimbach;Portraits of Charly, Stadthaus Rheinberg(with. A.R. Penck, Markus Luepertz and Joerg Immendorff);1997: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Dueren, Schloss Burgau; Kreuzau;Kunststation Ruchti, Bonn;(with H.A. Schult und Karl Heidelbach);1998: Kunsthalle Kubus, Duisburg;Kunstverein K.I.S. Sonsbeck; Galerie Groenfeld, Mechernich;1999: Forum art interregio, Satzvey; Galerie Villa Cotto, Moers-Kapellen;Galerie Basse, Leer; Charly Martin Kunsthandel, Sonsbeck;2000: Galerie on Tour , Moers, Gabriele Hering; L-age d-or, Bonn; Stadthaus, Rheinberg; Galerie Villa Cotto, Moers-Kapellen; Galerie DB 3, Cologne;2001: Galerie im Haus,Hamburg2002: Galerie Basse, Leer;Art Fabrik, Hamburg;Galerie Villa Cotto, Moers-Kapellen;2003: Art Fabrik, Ham...