Gunter Langer
86 artworks by Gunter Langer.
Last artwork was added this year.
Already as a child and in his further life the portrayal of the human being inspired Gunter Langer. Translating emotions into lines fascinated him. He began with portraits and later discovered that the human body can also develop emotions and expressiveness. To find pictorial compositions Gunter Langer works intensively with people. His aim is to create a portrait out of a few lines, which are drawn only once and in the unique process of drawing, to give the lines expressiveness. This is the complex process of an abstraction of reality and the subsequent transformation into a single line. In drawing, the claim is to create more expressiveness with individual free standing lines that correspond to each other and have a harmony than a photo can. The application of colour is intended to increase this. For Gunter Langer this is not the simple imitation of nature, nor the sole expressive transformation of nature into rough shapes and colours, but the creation of an additional abstraction of emotions with whose implementation the expressiveness is profoundly increased. Tiny bends in contours, lines and brush strokes create this emotional effect.
