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Gunther Forg

Gunther Forg (1952 - 2013) was active/lived in Switzerland, Germany.  Gunther Forg is known for Painting, graphic design, sculpture, photography, teaching.

Gunther Forg (born 5 December 1952 in Fuessen, southern Bavaria) is a prominent German painter, graphic designer, sculptor, and photographer. His abstract* style is influenced by American abstract painting. He lives and work in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Forg studied from 1973 until 1979 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts* with Karl Fred Dahmen. From 1992 until 1999, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. Since 1999, he has worked as a professor in Munich.

Günther Forg's artistic oeuvre* encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His geometrical, abstract, and heavily-dyed pictures have a strong decorative character. Forg combines materials and media in painting, sculpture and photography. The themes of his large scale architectural photographs are Bauhaus* and fascist aesthetics, while his monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art.

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