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Apr 23, 1936 Berlin Died on 19 Nov 2013 (aged 77)
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About Gunter Christmann
- Gunter Christmann (23 April 1936 - 19 November 2013) was a German-born Australian painter.Born in Berlin, Christmann emigrated to Australia in 1959.
- Regarded as a painter's painter, Christmann has been making abstract and figurative paintings since the early 1960s and has exhibited frequently since 1965 throughout Australia and overseas.
- He has been labelled as one of the major Australian artists of his generation and 'one of Australia's best kept secrets' by art historian and curator Mary Eagle.
- Christmann rose to prominence with his inclusion in the landmark exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968.
- From his hard edged colourfield paintings of the 1960s he went on to produce the "sprinkle" paintings of the 1970s.
- Throughout his different phases Christmann has maintained a fascination with the world around him, feeding off contemporary life, with his more recent works incorporating a ‘'tag" graffiti style that is drawn across his paintings, sometimes in almost obsessive repetition.
