Dietrich Burger (born 14 August 1935) is a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Born in

Bad Frankenhausen Bad Frankenhausen (officially: Bad Frankenhausen/Kyffhäuser) is a spa town in the German state of Thuringia. It is located at the southern slope of the Kyffhäuser mountain range, on an artificial arm of the Wipper river, a tributary of the Unstr ...

, Burger studied at the

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media a ...

under Bernhard Heisig from 1953 to 1958. From 1964, he taught there, from 1984 to 2000 as professor of painting and graphic arts.

Reception

"In Dietrich Burger's paintings and graphic art, one encounters an unmistakably high proportion of identity between life and work. Thus, not only do things he has lived through and experienced take place in a more or less encoded form in his paintings, but the pictorial landscapes also deal with existential questions for him. The painter's gaze, always directed towards reality, and a seismographically inward-looking registration interweave in the painterly and graphic structure."

Work

Burger stands for a constructivist variant of Saxon painting, with a high proportion of identity between life and work. His stations in life often determine individual forms of expression within his works. His early works are particularly influenced by classical French modernism, especially Corot, Watteau, Chardin,

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

and Matisse.

Honours

* 1988:

Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic The Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic (German: ''Kunstpreis der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik'') was an East German state award bestowed on individuals for contributions in various fields of art. History The Art Prize was annually a ...

Individual exhibitions

* 1978: Dietrich Burger: Malerei und Grafik,

Lindenau-Museum The Lindenau-Museum is an art museum in Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany. It originated as the house-museum of baron and collector Bernhard August von Lindenau. The building was completed in 1876. The museum's main attraction is its collection of ...

. * 1995: Malerei/Grafik/Zeichnungen, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig. * 2000: Dietrich Burger: Malerei, Zeichnung, Druckgraphik, Lindenau-Museum. * 2005: Neue Bilder, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig. * 2008: Dietrich Burger: Gestern und Heute, Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau. * 2010: bb, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig.

Participation in exhibitions

* 1961: 6. Bezirkskunstausstellung, Leipzig * 2007: Seit Leipzig, Kunsthalle Wittenhagen * 2011: Hochdruck an der HGB Leipzig, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.Hochdruck an der HGB Leipzig
hgb-leipzig.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.

Works in museums and public collections

* Altenburg (Thüringen),

(many works, among others ''Spaziergänger;'' Tafelbild, Tempera, 1988?)Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur * Gera, Kunstsammlung Gera, (among others ''I'm Garten / Die Kinder des Künstlers''; Graphitzeichnung, 1976)

References

External links

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