Gerhard Altenbourg (1926-1989)

Aliases: Gerhard Ströch

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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  Gerhard Altenbourg Rödichen/Thüringen 1926 - 1989

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  Contemporary Art: GERHARD ALTENBOURG

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  Gerhard Altenbourg"Über dem Strom ein Gezweig - Blätter zu Bobrowski". 1969.

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  Gerhard Altenbourg Rödichen/Thüringen 1926 - 1989

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Gerhard Altenbourg Biography

(b Rödichen-Schnepfenthal, Thuringia, 22 Nov 1926; d Dresden, 30 Dec 1989). German painter, printmaker and sculptor. He studied at the Hochschule für Baukunst and Bildende Kunst in Weimar under H. Hoffmann-Lederer (b 1899). From the start his interest was directed towards modernism, especially by its literary aspects, which inspired him to produce lyrical works of his own. Even in his first drawings, for example Ecce homo I (1949; priv. col., see 1969 exh. cat., no. 142), in which he addressed the painful experience of war, he achieved a marked individual style. His determined preoccupation with modern art and the vocabulary of form set him at odds with the prevailing artistic ideology until late in his life. In the 1940s and 1950s, although his plants and figures were depicted objectively, he produced tight-woven but reduced abstract shapes that anticipated the meticulously applied successive layers of non-objectivism. His work was always closely influenced by the area in which he was born and lived, particularly his landscapes, for example Garden at the Spinnbahn (1951; priv. col., see 1969 exh. cat., no. 23). The large-format work These Artists (1957; see 1969 exh. cat., no. 54) shows the abstract developing from the figurative. Examples of his later work are Over to Byzantium (1971/2; Berlin, Kupferstichkab.) and the Splendour of the Abyss (1981; Dresden, Kupferstichkab.)

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