12 Facts About Gotthard Graubner

Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.

When his professor had to leave the Dresden academy for ideological reasons, Gotthard Graubner was on his side and therefore exmatriculated.

From 1954 to 1959, Gotthard Graubner studied painting at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, where he was first a student of Otto Pankok with Gunther Uecker and Bert Gerresheim becoming his classmates.

In 1959, when Meistermann left the Academy, Gotthard Graubner became one of Karl Otto Gotz's first students, his classmates being HA Schult, who studied under Meistermann, and Kuno Gonschior.

Shortly before leaving it, he came into contact with Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, the founders of the Zero group, For some years, Gotthard Graubner worked, with Mack, as an art teacher at the Lessing Gymnasium, Dusseldorf.

Gotthard Graubner's art is characterised by his unique philosophy and the use of color in his work.

Gotthard Graubner never allowed his style to be dictated by the current fashions or trends.

Gotthard Graubner developed his own style of using color as the medium through which his work announced itself, allowing it to work independently of any connection to any kind of representation or theme.

Gotthard Graubner saw his own work in the tradition of old masters such as Matthias Grunewald, Titian, El Greco and Paul Cezanne.

In 2000, Gotthard Graubner's drawings were presented at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and his other works at the Goethe-Institut, Istanbul, the CaixaForum Barcelona and the Ankara State Art and Sculpture Museum.

In 1988, Gotthard Graubner was commissioned to create two large cushion pictures for the Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.

Gotthard Graubner was awarded the August Macke Prize of the city of Meschede in 1987 and the North German Art Prize in 1988.