Günther Brendel


Günther Brendel was a German painter and graphic artist.
For many years, starting from 1969, he was Professor of Painting at the Art Academy in Berlin-Weißensee.

Life and career

Brendel trained and initially worked as a Decorative painter between 1944 and 1948. He then studied, till 1951, under de: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 took him to the Soviet Union, Romania and Bulgaria. However, he and his wife continued to live in Berlin where he died on 8 January 2026, nine days before his 96th birthday.

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