The work of German artist Günther Förg encompasses a variety of media from sculpture to painting, ceramics to photography. Although Förg has worked in a variety of techniques and materials, painting remains his most important expressive medium. He started his career in the 1970s in Munich, where he was influenced by Blinky Palermo and his proclivity for wall painting arose from his interest in architecture, reflected in his turning towards photography. After his early monochromatic paintings, Förg continued to explore modernist themes from postmodern perspectives. Gradually, he achieved a complete command of color to create space and form, opening up new insights and perspectives in his painting. In his later works, which bear resemblance to the watercolors by Paul Klee, the color fields of Mark Rothko, or the scumbled marks of Cy Twombly, Förg has gone on to appropriate older strategies of picture-making, presenting them afresh.
Günther Förg
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Günther Förg, Untitled, 2006
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 240 x 2,5 cm -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2006
Water colour and pastel on paper
55,3 x 67 x 3 cm (framed) -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on lead on wood
150 x 115 cm
59 1/8 x 45 1/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood, in artist's frame
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
250 x 420 cm
98 3/8 x 165 3/8 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1995
Acrylic on canvas
250 x 413 cm
98 3/8 x 162 5/8 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
45 x 55 cm
17 3/4 x 21 5/8 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on wood
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1996
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 cm
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood, in artist's frame
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood, in artist's frame
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
© Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood, in artist's frame
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood, in artist's frame
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
© Günther Förg, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1990
Acrylic on wood, in artist's frame
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
© Ana Drittanti -
Günther Förg, Ledoux XIII, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux I, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux XI, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux VIII, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux X, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux VI, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux XII, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux V, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux III, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Ledoux II, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Ledoux VII, 2000/2013
Black and white photograph
250 x 130 cm
98 3/8 x 51 1/8 in -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 110 cm
35 3/8 x 43 1/4 inches -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
195 x 280 cm
76 3/4 x 110 1/4 inches -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2004
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 80 cm
23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2004
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 80 cm
23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches -
Günther Förg, Areuse, 1999
Acrylic on lead on wood
40,5 x 30,5 cm
16 x 12 inches
Edition IV/X -
Günther Förg, Areuse, 1999
Acrylic on lead on wood
40,5 x 30,5 x 2,5 cm
16 x 12 x 1 inches
Edition VI/X -
Günther Förg, Bad Honnef Multiple, 1998
Acrylic on lead on wood
40,5 x 30,5 x 2,5 cm
16 x 12 x 1 inches
Artist proof of an edition of 20 + 5 AP -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1994
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 130 cm
59 x 51 1/8 inches -
Günther Förg, Untitled (Mask), 1990
Bronze
46 x 30 x 30 cm
18 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches
Edition 2/3 -
Günther Förg, Untitled (Mask), 1990
Bronze
41 x 30 x 30 cm
16 1/8 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Edition 2/3 -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2004
Acrylic on canvas
195 x 165 cm
76 3/4 x 65 inches -
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2007
Acrylic and oil on canvas
200 x 240 cm
78 3/4 x 94 1/2 inches -
Günther Förg, Decke 5, 1998
Acrylic on Canson
173 x 123 x 5,5 cm (framed)
Exhibitions
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A Game of Chess
— • Paris, Turenne -
Un Hiver à Paris
— • Paris, Front Space -
Lineup
— • New York -
Approaches to Abstraction
— • Shanghai -
Günther Förg
— • London -
Imaginary Ancestors , Organized with Carlo Severi. Bernard de Grunne guest curator for Arts of Africa.
— • New York -
In Different Ways, Group Show
— • London, Savile Row -
To London! A selection of Paintings
— • London, Savile Row
Museum Exhibitions
Selected press
- ‘Museum Show Of Work By Günther Förg Debuts In Dallas In October’, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, October 12, 2018 — 319.1 kB
- Michelle Sevior, 'Günther Förg- A Fragile Beauty at The Dallas Museum of Art', Art Premium, October 18, 2018 — 275.5 kB
- ‘First U.S. museum exhibition of work by Günther Förg in nearly three decades debut at the Dallas Museum of Art’, Art Daily, October 22, 2018 — 610.5 kB
- Henri Neuendorf, ‘‘After a Long Sleep, It Woke Up’: What Is Driving the Market Frenzy Around Late German Artist Günther Förg’, Artnet, November 1, 2018 — 1.6 MB