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

Exhibition at the Galerie Himmel

Egon Pukall
On his 90th birthday

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

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

further exhibitions

1964	Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden (participation)
1972	District art exhibitions, Dresden (participation)
1972/1973	VII. Art exhibition of the GDR (participation)
1974	District art exhibitions, Dresden (participation)
	Kunst der Zeit, Dresden
1979	District art exhibitions, Dresden (participation)
1982/1983	Galerie Nord, Dresden, with Manfred Richard Böttcher (participation)
1985	District art exhibitions, Dresden (participation)
	Altes Museum, Neue Berliner Galerie, Berlin/Ost (participation)
	Kleine Galerie, Hoyerswerda
1986	Friedrich-Wolf-Theater, Eisenhüttenstadt
1987	Galerie Nord, Dresden
1987/1988	X. Art Exhibition of the GDR (participation)
1988	Galerie Carl Blechen, Cottbus, with Rainer Zille (participation)
1989	Galerie am Schönhof, Görlitz
1990	Galerie am Steinweg, Suhl
1991	Galerie Hieronymus, Dresden
1993	Galerie Refugium, Neustrelitz
1994	Sächsischer Künstlerbund e.V., Dresden
	Galerie Klinger am Schönhof, Görlitz
1995	Galerie am Theater, Meißen
1997	Galerie Punkt & Partner, Dresden
2003	Villa Eschebach, Dresden (participation)
2006	Galerie Finkbein, Dresden
2008	Lingnerschloss, Dresden (participation)
2009	Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden
	Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden
2011	Kunsthandlung Koenitz (now GALERIE HIMMEL), Dresden
2012	Galerie am Plan, Pirna
2014	Galerie Alte Schule, Ahrenshoop
2019	Galerie Alte Schule, Ahrenshoop
2020	Ernst-Barlach-Haus, Hamburg »Cosmos East. Art in the GDR 1949–1989«
2024	Galerie Alte Schule, Ahrenshoop
	GALERIE HIMMEL, Kabinett, Dresden