Nationality German Children Albrecht, Claudia | Occupation PainterGraphic artist | |
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Political party Socialist Unity Party of Germany | ||
Günther Brendel (often incorrectly named in sources as Günter Brendel) (born Weida 17 January 1930) is a German painter and graphic artist.
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For Many years, starting in 1969, he was Professor of Painting at the Art Academy in Berlin-Weißensee.
Life
Brendel trained and initially worked as a Decorative painter between 1944 and 1948. He then studied, till 1951, under Hans Hofmann-Lederer and Hermann Kirchberger at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. After the Weimar art school was reorganised to become an architecture college Brendel switched to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he continued his studies under Fritz Dähn and Rudolf Bergander. He then, in 1954, worked briefly as a freelance artist in Dresden.
After moving to Berlin he took a position as an assistant at the Art Academy in the city's Weißensee district. He remained at The Academy, with promotions in 1956 and again in 1959 when he became an assistant professor in Painting. A lectureship followed in 1964. In 1969 he took over as the Academy's Professor of Painting.
Study tours have taken him to the Soviet Union, Romania and Bulgaria. However, he and his wife continue to live in Berlin.