Günter Umberg - Galerie Michael Haas

Günter Umberg

*1942 Bonn – lives in Cologne and Corberon, France

Biography

The works he creates are devoted to painting and its fundamental aspects: surface, space, and the interactions between them; colour and pigment with their texture and presentation; shapes, contours, and dimensions in the context of all these elements. All of these aspects are also executed in a very minimalistic fashion. It sounds deeply scientific, rational, abstract, and rather dry. However, Umberg’s works are sensual artefacts that can be observed emotionally and require the viewer’s full attention. Umberg is interested in “the absorbing way of perception” in the viewer. Colour is the most important part of the painting process for him.

From 1963 to 1969, Umberg studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, as well as the Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. During the 1970s, he became very interested in colour, its physical properties, and the impact of colour on the viewer’s senses. From 1982 to 1988, he organised individual exhibitions in his non-commercial exhibition room Raum für Malerei in Cologne for fellow artists from the international arts community, such as Josef Albers, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Alan Uglow, or Joseph Marioni. Umberg gained popularity for his black paintings through Rolf Ricke, a gallery owner in Cologne, and his paintings have been monochrome ever since.

In 1994, he gave his first lectures at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2000 to 2007, he was a professor of painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and in 2006 he also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. In 2000 and 2002 he was invited by Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Modern Art Museum in Frankfurt to curate exhibitions of works by other contemporary artists, as well as classics. In 2005, Umberg, whose paintings have also been presented in Milan, London, New York, and Tokyo, received the Fred Thieler Prize for painting in Berlin. Günter Umberg, born in Bonn in 1942, currently lives and works mostly in France.

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Günter Umberg
Ohne Titel
1977
pigment on wood
220 x 80 cm

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Galerie Michael Haas
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Niebuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin

Kunst Lager Haas
Lise-Meitner-Straße 7-9
10589 Berlin

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Lise-Meitner-Straße 7-9
10589 Berlin

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Phone: +49 (0) 30 88 92 91 0
Mail: contact@galeriemichaelhaas.de

Günter
Umberg

2006 Lectureship at the Academy for Graphic and Book Art, Leipzig

2005 Fred Thieler Prize for Painting

2000-2007 Professor of Painting at the State Academy of Art in Karlsruhe

1994 Visiting professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel

1968 Master student at the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design, Cologne under Prof. Alfred Will

1961-1968 Studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, as well as at the Kölner Werkschulen

Exhibitions (selection)

2020-22

Nur nichts anbrennen lassen, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2019

Conversation- Günter Umberg, James White, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

Hans Uhlmann und Günter Umberg, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin

BANFORA FIGUR. Yuji Taekeoka, Günter Umberg, Jef Verheyen, Galerie Dierking, Zurich

2018

Günter Umberg, Pan No. 7, Galleri Riis, Oslo

Günter Umberg, De Pictura, A arte Invernizzi, Milan

2017

Günter Umberg, XF Proyectos, Madrid, Curator Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm

Günter Umberg, Plan No. 3, Fox/Jensen Gallery, Sydney

2016

Günter Umberg, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin

2015

Günter Umberg, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

Un-thinking Vision Jude Rae and Günter Umberg, Fox Jensen Gallery Sydney

Günter Umberg – Bernard Frize, Fondation Fernet Branca, Saint Louis

Günter Umberg, Galerie Haas, Zurich

Günter Umberg, Bild Länge-Breite-Höhe-Tiefe, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

2013

Günter Umberg, A Arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

2012

Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary, Jensen Gallery, Sydney

Günter Umberg,Territorium 17, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Courtesy: Galerie nächst St Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Galleri Riis, Oslo

2011

Günter Umberg, Territorium, recent paintings and early works from the seventies, Galerie Riis, Oslo

2010

Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary, Ars Now Seragiotto, Padua, 27. Mai – 17. Juli

2009

Prinzip Monochrom Günter Umberg im Museum für Lackkunst, Museum für Lackkunst, Munster

Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary, Paarweise, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf

2007

Günter Umberg, Pittura, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

Günter Umberg – Passage, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

Günter Umberg, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

2006

Günter Umberg – Bilderhaus 4, Oslo, Galleri Riis, Oslo

Günter Umberg – Malerei, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

Günter Umberg – Bilderhaus Schattenraum, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

2006

Günter Umberg – Malerei, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe

Günter Umberg – Bilderhaus Schattenraum, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

2005

Günter Umberg – Fred Thieler Preis für Malerei, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

2004

Günter Umberg Fontfroide, ein Bilderhaus, Art Unlimited 2004, Art 35 Basel, Courtesy: Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

Günter Umberg, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

2002

Günter Umberg, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2002

Günter Umberg, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne

Günter Umberg, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

2001

Günter Umberg, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris

Günter Umberg, Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid

Günter Umberg, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

Günter Umberg, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

2000

Günter Umberg – Body of Painting, Günter Umberg with paintings from Cologne collections, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne

Günter Umberg, Städtische Galerie allerArt, Remise Bludenz, Bludenz

Günter Umberg – Body of Painting, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

1999

Günter Umberg – Elisabeth Vary, Palazzo Municipale Morterone, Morterone

1998

Günter Umberg, En shrijdt behoedzaam voort van de hemel doorheen de wereld naar de hel! Günter Umberg met…., Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

Günter Umberg, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

Günter Umberg, Galleri Riis, Oslo

1997

Günter Umberg, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

Günter Umberg, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge

1996

Devant et derrière la lumière, Günter Umberg face à…., Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans – Sartoux, Mouans-Sartoux

Günter Umberg, six paintings and a room, Stark Gallery, New York

Günter Umberg, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne

Günter Umberg, 1973-1993, Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica

1995

Günter Umberg, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka

1994

Günter Umberg, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Günter Umberg, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio

1993

Günter Umberg, Arbeiten auf Papier 1973-76, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Günter Umberg, Laure Genillard Gallery, London

Günter Umberg, Fifteen Years, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

Günter Umberg, Stark Gallery, New York

Günter Umberg, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

1992

Günter Umberg, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne

Günter Umberg, Second Floor Exhibition Space, Reykjavik

Günter Umberg, Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf

Günter Umberg, Räume für neue Kunst – Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal

1991

Günter Umberg, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva

Günter Umberg, Studio Guenzani, Milan

Günter Umberg, Gilbert Brownstone, Paris

Günter Umberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

1990

Günter Umberg, Galerij S 65, Aalst

Günter Umberg, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster

Günter Umberg, Målningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Günter Umberg, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

1989

Günter Umberg, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne

Günter Umberg, Laure Genillard Gallery, London

Günter Umberg, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York

Günter Umberg, Gilbert Brownstone, Paris

Günter Umberg, Malerei, Artothek, Cologne

1988

Günter Umberg, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

1987

Günter Umberg, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

Günter Umberg, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York

Günter Umberg, Malerei, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne

Günter Umberg, Galerie Albrecht, Munich

Günter Umberg, Målningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

1986

Günter Umberg, three paintings, P.S.1, The Institute for Art and Urban Researches, project room, Long Island City

1985

Günter Umberg, Thema Farbe, Städtische Galerie im Städel Frankfurt on the Main

Günter Umberg, Målningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö

1984

Günter Umberg, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin

1983

Günter Umberg, Malerei, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich

1979

Günter Umberg, Malerei, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno