Günther C. Kirchberger
Günther C. Kirchberger ( born August 22, 1928 in Kornwestheim, † April 5, 2010 in Bad Boll, Göppingen ) was a German painter and artist.
Biography
Kirchberger studied until 1949 graphics design at the Higher Technical School of Graphic Arts in Stuttgart. From 1950 he began studying at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts, his teachers were Professors Manfred Henninger, Hils, Gerhard Gollwitzer and Walter. In 1956 he was a founding member of Group 11, along with Georg Karl Pfahler, Friedrich Sieber and Atila Biró. The group was based on Action Painting and informal art, especially on Willi Baumeister. She had at this time contact with the Stuttgart group / school and Max Bense.
After the dissolution of the group in 1959 after 11 joint exhibitions in London, Brussels, Rome, Munich, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, went church Berger's works from the Informal about to vertebrate color forms. Starting in 1962, a transition to text and picture with Reinhard Döhl of the Stuttgart School took place in his style. 1964 Kirchberger received a professorship at the art school in Krefeld (now the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein) as a lecturer of "applied art ". One of his students is the latest star photographer Peter Lindbergh.
Around 1965 his paintings are more and more close to the style Hard Edge, 1973, he was appointed professor. His style changed further, 1975/76 he worked with softer transitions in this period that the works from the series of " double form images " also. During this time his work with the screen printer and gallery Roland Geiger, emerge more than 70 editions of prints from the beginning to 1995. From 1979, he led study tours to Egypt, to return to their sequence handwritten elements in his work.
Kirchberger lived since his retirement in 1996 in Bad Boll.