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Gunther Fruhtrunk

Gunther Fruhtrunk (1923 - 1982) was active/lived in Germany.  Gunther Fruhtrunk is known for Geometric abstract painting and sculpture.

After graduation Günter Fruhtrunk studied architecture at the Technical University in Munich, but he gave up after two semesters to join the army in the fall of 1941 as a volunteer.  Even during the war years - as a kind of counterweight to the war experiences - his drawings and watercolors focused especially on landscape motifs.

In 1945 in Neufrach, Fruhtrunk began a private study with the painter and printmaker William Straube, who was a student of Hölzel and Matisse.  In 1948 Fruhtrunk met Willi Baumeister and Bissier in 1949, who led him to non-objective painting.  When he received a grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg and the French Government in 1954, he moved to Paris to work in the studios of Léger and Arp.  The results of this collaboration were shown in Günter Fruhtrunk's first exhibition in Paris in 1955 at René Drouin's Cercle Volnay.

In the sixties Fruhtrunk lived and worked mainly in Paris and France.  In 1961 he was awar   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1883 characters.]  Artist bio

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