Gunter Christmann

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Gunter Christmann
Born(1936-04-23)23 April 1936
Berlin, Nazi Germany
Died19 November 2013(2013-11-19) (aged 77)
NationalityGerman and Australian
Known forPainting, Sculpture, Sound Sculpture

Gunter Christmann (23 April 1936 – 19 November 2013) was a German-born Australian painter.[1]

Born in Berlin, Christmann emigrated to Australia in 1959. Regarded as a painter's painter, Christmann has been making abstract and figurative paintings since the early 1960s and has exhibited frequently since 1965 throughout Australia and overseas.[2] He has been labelled as one of the major Australian artists of his generation and 'one of Australia's best kept secrets'[3] by art historian and curator Mary Eagle. Christmann rose to prominence with his inclusion in the landmark exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. From his hard edged colourfield paintings of the 1960s he went on to produce the "sprinkle" paintings of the 1970s.[3] Throughout his different phases Christmann has maintained a fascination with the world around him, feeding off contemporary life, with his more recent works incorporating a ‘'tag" graffiti style that is drawn across his paintings, sometimes in almost obsessive repetition.[4]

Exhibitions

Gunter Christmann started his career in the mid-1960s showing at Argus Gallery,

São Paulo, Brazil in 1971, and the First and Fourth Biennale of Sydney in 1973 and 1982. Christmann has participated in art fairs across Australia and New Zealand, most notably the Melbourne Art Fair in 2012 and the Auckland Art Fair in 2011. A posthumous retrospective of his life's work entitled Gunter Christmann: Now and Then was shown in 2014 at Heide Museum of Modern Art.[5]

Collections

Christmann's work is included in most major public collections in Australia, including extensive holdings in the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Gunter Chrisdtmann: Abstract painter embraced realism". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b c The Commercial Gallery. "Gunter Christmann". Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  3. ^ a b Morse, Meredith. "Time underfoot: Gunter Christmann's recent paintings". Art & Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  4. ^ Art Nomad. "Gunter Sylvester Christmann". Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Gunter Christmann Biography". Niagara Galleries. 26 June 2017.
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