Manfred Luther

curriculum vitae
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 |