Johannes Grützke

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 – Tomb

30. September 2020

There is now a monument to the Berlin painter Johannes Grützke, who died in 2017, at the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof cemetery in Berlin....

Johannes Grützke at Museum MORE in Gorssel, Netherlands

26. February 2017

Museum MORE in Gorssel, Netherlands shows from 25.02.2017 a large solo exhibition with Johannes Grützke. The exhibition "The brush has...

FAZ reports on Johannes Grützke exhibition at Galerie Schwind

5. March 2015

Freddy Langer writes about the exhibition at Galerie Schwind in Frankfurt under the title "Paintings by Johannes Grützke: He is closest to...

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