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Gouache, charcoal, signed
Size: 30x40.5
(more gouache on the back,
also signed)
MANFRED BLUTH
Born in Berlin in 1926
In 1942 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy with Gerhard Ulrich
1943-46 Interruption of studies due to war
1947 continued studies at the Munich Art Academy
1950 master student of Willi Geiger
Return to Berlin
1953-68 exhibition director at Amerikahaus Berlin
1954 Surrealist works under the influence of Max Ernst
1955 “Young Generation” art prize from the city of Berlin
1956 acquaintance with KH Sonderborg
50s
Stays in Paris, southern Spain, Portugal, North Africa, USA
1959-61 last phase of work with non-representational compositions, final return to realism
1966-71 Paraphrases of works and imaginary portraits by Böcklin, Czésanne, van Gogh, Ensor
from 1961, ship images as allegories of transience
1963-71 thematic variations "Alice in Wonderland"
1963 lithographs
1966 Introduction of the “Berlin Still Life”
60s
Stays in the West Indies, South America, Israel, Norway...
1970/71 employee of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (West), travel grant “On the road with Dürer”
In 1973, together with J.Grützke, M.Köppel, K.Ziegler, the “School of New Magnificence” was founded.
1974-91 Professor of painting at the Kassel University
80s
Stays in Tuscany, Po Valley, Sicily...: Oil sketches in front of nature
1986/87 drafts for painting the Nuremberg town hall hall
1986 Publication of the book "Worldview and World of Images - Notes of a Painter at the End of Time and Art" by Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich; Berlin.
1990 founding member and first chairman of the Artists' Special Association in Germany
died on December 22, 2002 in Berlin