Manfred Luther

1925	born in Dresden
1940-1943	Apprenticeship as a technical draughtsman
1943-1945	Soldier in the Second World War
1950	Return from French captivity
1952-1955	Work as a design engineer
1955	freelance since then
1956-1962	Drawing lessons with various artists and first concrete drawings
1962-1966	Studied under Ernst Hassebrauk
1968	24 ink drawings, »Konkrete Zeichnungen«, from which the screen print series »schwarz-weiß-grau« (1976-85) and the sequence »paraphrasen« (1970) were developed.
1979-1983	followed by the colour screen printing series »Farbiger Epilog«
1980-1994	he reached his artistic zenith with the circle series »Cogito ergo sum« in mixed media and screen printing.
2004	died in Dresden

Exhibition at the Galerie Himmel

Manfred Luther
Concrete meditations

28. March 2024 — 08. June 2024

1977	Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin/Ost (participation)
1980	Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig »Gouaches and tempera sheets by artists from the GDR« (participation)
1981	Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden (participation)
1982	Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung, Dresden-Rossendorf
1984	Neue Dresdener Galerie, Dresden »Form, Color, Geometry – Hermann Glöckner on His 95th Birthday« (participation)
1988	Galerie am Thomaskirchhof, Leipzig »Dresden Constructivists« (participation)
1989	Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig »Homage to Hermann Glöckner« (participation)
1990	Ars Polona Galerie, Düsseldorf »Constructive Currents FRG-GDR-Poland« (participation)
1991	Kupferstichkabinett Dresden
	Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden (participation)
1992	Galerie Beatrix Wilhelm, Stuttgart
1994	Galerie Teufel-Holze, Dresden
	Galerie Heinz Teufel, Mahlberg
	Galerie am Blauen Wunder, Dresden
2004	Galerie Hieronymus, Dresden
2007	Sächsischen Landesärztekammer, Dresden
2014	Städtische Galerie Dresden
1996	Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz (participation)
1999	Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Lichtenstein Collection (participation)
2015	GALERIE HIMMEL, Kabinett, with Hermann Glöckner (participation)
2016	Galerie K16, Homberg