Kurt Günther

Alongside Otto Dix, who was his friend, Kurt Günther is regarded to be the most important representative of socially critical realism and New Objectivity in Thuringia. But even though both were stylistically united by a verism of the highest quality, Dix and Günther certainly had very different drives for their artistic expression. While Dix draws an aggressively brutal portrait of the Weimar Republic with all its ambivalences, Günther's artistic center lies in the confrontation with the opposite sex. As a libidinous being he is captivated by the woman. In the depiction of the female body he finds an expression for his inner attitude, which, in contrast to Dix, is turned towards life with all its contradictions. (ED)