Name Wilhelm Gugel | ||
Wilhelm F. Gugel (born 1951) is a German freelance architect and engineer.
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Career
Wilhelm F. Gugel completed an apprenticeship in a technical profession studied mechanical engineering at the Technikum in Reutlingen and later architecture at the Staatsbauschule in Stuttgart. As a student he got interested in various fields of creativity.
He runs a studio for architecture and engineering in Tubingen, in which he focuses on residential buildings.
Amongst other activities he likes painting. He produces Tiffany glass and windows with concrete frames, paints murals, manufactures mosaics of tiles and of glass, and moreover, the he works as an author for prose and autobiographical works about his childhood and his youth.
Style of Painting
The topics of Gugel's paintings vary as much as the sources, on which they are based: Black-and- white-photography in books, as well as photos in magazines, newspapers, tourist guides − modified in different ways − and his own photos taken during several sailing-trips in the Aegean Sea.
In the early years he painted in the traditional way of watercolor, wet-in-wet or wet-in-dry, until he developed his own style: After applying a prime layer with light and transparent water-colors, he draws the contoures of the motif. Subsequently he adds wheatpaste, masking tape and wax. Than he works layer by layer lather, Indian-ink, ink, Gouache, coarse salt, quartz sand and other substances, which influence the colors, structure and background.