Painting
Works on paper
Biography

1937
born in Berlin
1957-64
Studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin under Hans Orlowski, master student of Peter Janssen
1973
January 24: Foundation of the “School of New Magnificence” – an ideological artist community with a priestess – in Berlin with the painters Manfred Bluth, Matthias Koeppel and Karl-Heinz Ziegler
1976-77
Guest lecturer for fine arts at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg
1989
Execution of the frieze “Der Zug der Volksvertreter” for the Paulskirche in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin-Kreuzberg 1991 on April 16 Handover of the frieze in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
1992 – 2002
Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Art Prize of the City of Wolfsburg
1995
Foundation of Goethe Verlag Berlin with Tilmann Lehnert
2003
Member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg. Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt
2011
Retrospective at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg Handover of the written legacy
2012
Awarded the Hannah Höch Prize for his life’s work
2017
Johannes Grützke dies after a serious illness
News

Johannes Grützke – Grabmal
30. September 2020

Johannes Grützke at Museum MORE in Gorssel, Netherlands
26. February 2017

FAZ berichtet über Johannes Grützke Austellung in der Galerie Schwind
5. March 2015