Egon Pukall

  • Dachlandschaft
  • Zwei Topfpflanzen
  • Topfpflanze
  • Felsen
  • Loschwitzer Häuser
  • Fensterblick mit Efeu
  • Gitarrenstillleben
  • Villa am Hang
  • Fenster im Künstlerhaus
  • Südlicher Yachthafen
  • Elbufer mit Wasserlache
  • Interieur mit Stehlampe und Weinflasche
  • Blick aus dem Atelier (Loschwitz)
  • Schlafende im Liegestuhl
  • Katze mit Obstschale
  • Gewächshausruine (Nadelwitz)
  • Plinzmühle II
  • Fischerboote im Hafen
  • Fensterstillleben
  • Fensterblick auf Loschwitz
Egon Pukall

curriculum vitae

1934 born in Riesenkirch / Westpreußen
1945 family flees to Berlin
1948-1951 apprenticeship as a photolithographer at the company C.G. Röder Leipzig
1951-1954 studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig under Hans Mayer-Foreyt
1954-1957 studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Paul Michaelis
1955 marriage to Irmgard Lorbach
1956 birth of son Jens
1957 diploma with the painting “Maler und Modell”
member of the Association of Visual Artists, since then self-employed, acquaintance with Wilhelm Lachnit
1960 divorce from Irmgard
1961 marriage to Maria Gadsch
1964 moving into Rudolf Otto's studio in the Künstlerhaus Loschwitz
1966-1973 collaboration with Helmut Hartung to earn a salary, acquaintance with Otto Westphal
1969 birth of son Falk
1970 start of weekly discussions with artists about painting, literature and politics with Harmut Bonk, Manfred Richter Böttcher, Ullrich Eisenfeld, Günther Torges, Georg Blume and Konrad Maass at Café Toscana near the Blaues Wunder.
1973 head of the outpost of the HfBK Bautzen, teacher of painting and graphics at the Dresden evening school
head of a painting and drawing circle, which he handed over to Konrad Maass in 1985
1976 preoccupation with still life, nude, self-portrait and portrait, several landscapes at the quarry behind Bautzen, then interiors again
1977 friendship with Sigrid Walther, director of Galerie Nord, helps her to plan and realize exhibitions
1978-1984 paint reconstruction work during the rebuilding of the Dresden Semperoper
1989 dies on September 23 at the Künstlerhaus Loschwitz after many years of illness
Egon Pukall

Exhibition at the Galerie Himmel

Egon Pukall
On his 90th birthday

07. September 2024 — 02. November 2024 | in the cabinet
Collection

Exhibition at the Galerie Himmel

Collection
Gerlint Soeder & Erhard Frommhold

23. November 2024 — 25. January 2025

Pukall's interiors, like those of Romanticism, can also be read as allegories for the limitations of earthly existence. The interior becomes a resonance chamber for a sense of the world made up of melancholy and expectation, stagnation and wanderlust, reality and illusion. Melancholy becomes the driving force behind artistic activity.
Sigrid Walther
Egon Pukall - Malerei, Zeichnung, Monotypie, Dresden: Leonhardi-Museum 2009
In his paintwork, he aimed for a lean and matte application of paint, carefully removing areas that he wanted to give a different color tone. He avoided greasiness and any over-pasting of color surfaces. He painted on colored paper with gouache paints and was therefore able to cover and test areas to be reworked in advance using the toned paper.
Hartmut Bonk
Egon Pukall - Malerei, Zeichnung, Monotypie, Dresden: Leonhardi-Museum 2009
Longing was a central theme in Egon Pukall's paintings. He dreamed of the Mediterranean, of its light and its colors. Pukall's landscapes are metamorphoses of the near into the distant. His numerous interior and window paintings are characterized by pure areas of colour, quiet harmony and balance.
Anja Himmel
Kabinett-Ausstellung Egon Pukall, Zum 90. Geburtstag, Galerie Himmel 2024