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Last Name Voglsamer

Given Name Günter B.

alt. Names G. B. V. ;

Marriage landscape painter Irene Voglsamer-Gailling (1923-2005) ;

Children

Year born 1918 in Kirchen an der Sieg

Year died 2004

Place of death Munich

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education trained as photoretoucheur (Chemigraf); art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 1942 as pupil of Hermann Kaspar

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1950 (37 paintings, several carbon drawings, c.30 dioramas, etc.)

Patronage Deutsches Museum, Munich; 1975-1984 President of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg / Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg‏ ;

Collaborators

Techniques technical and industrial drawing and painting ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Voglsamer ;

Published sources Eva Mayring: Von Bildern, Dioramen und Panoramen. G.B.V. und das Deutsche Museum, Kultur & Technik 28 (2004), issue 4: 54f.; Eva Mayring (ed.) Bilder der Technik, Industrie und Wissenschaft (Munich 2008): 72f., 80f., 92-97, 112, 118-121, 208-211, 287f.; Margareta Benz-Zauner, Andrea Lucas: Günter B. Voglsamer. Künstler im Dienst des Deutschen Museums. In: Klaus Türk (Hrsg.): Arbeit und Industrie in der bildenden Kunst. Beiträge eine interdisziplinären Symposiums. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997

other G.B.V. was cofounder and (since 1961) president of the Freie Münchner und deutschen Künstlerschaft (founded in 1959). About his activities & models for the Deutsches Museum in Munich, see https://blog.deutsches-museum.de/2011/03/31/rettet-den-voglsamer and https://blog.deutsches-museum.de/2020/08/14/ein-diorama-und-sein-kolonialer-hintergrund

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