Günther Förg
Förg ( born December 5, 1952 in Fussen, † December 5, 2013 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter, sculptor and art photographer.
Life and work
Förg studied from 1973 to 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Fred Dahmen. The first solo exhibition was in 1980 in the Munich Gallery Ruediger Schoettle instead. In 1984 he took at the show from here - two months new German art in Dusseldorf part. Förg was represented at the 1992 documenta IX. 1992 to 1999 he taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. The Wolfgang Hahn Prize he was awarded in 1996. From 1999 he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
On Förg was particularly the architecture that characterized his entire oeuvre. In particular, the Italian architecture of the rationalism of Modernism of the 20th century were the subjects of his photographic work. These related for example to modernity in Moscow and the Bauhaus architecture in Israel with buildings of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt am Main.
From the 1990s created large-format window and grating images on canvas or paper. With seemingly hasty brushstrokes and surfaces in broken colors he let flicker and light moods arise reminiscent of geometric structures of architecture, but also properties of nature and landscape.
Under the title 3 pictures - 30 watercolors were shown specially produced works of the Allgäu countryside in 2007 at the Museum of Fuessen (former St. Mang's Abbey ). In spring 2008, the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna showed in the exhibition Förg. Back and Forth works Förg together with the collection show Baselitz to Lassnig - Masterful pictures with works by Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Maria Lassnig, Markus Liipertz, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer and Gerhard Richter, as well as a Work of exhibition and presented so that the plants in the context of German painting.
In 2010, the Sinclair House work showed in Bad Homburg on paper from the period of 2006 to 2010. Förg Two years after stroke was 2012, the " art space Graesslin ", St. Georgen, an overview of his artistic work.
Awards
Works in public collections
- Recommended institution Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
- Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
- Haubrok Collection, Berlin
- Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- Art Collections Chemnitz, Chemnitz
- MKM of Modern Art, Duisburg
- Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen
- Art Collection German Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
- Museum of Modern Art ( MMK), Frankfurt am Main
- Städel, Frankfurt am Main
- City Gallery at the ZKM Karlsruhe
- Museum of Contemporary Art & Media Museum, Karlsruhe
- Museum Kurhaus Kleve
- Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
- Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich
- Art Space Grasslin, St. Georgen
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich ( Stoffel Collection )
- Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
- Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / Vienna