Günter Fruhtrunk is one of the most important representatives of the international movement of "Concrete Art" from the mid-fifties. After his Paris years as an assistant and collaborator with Fernand Léger and Hans Arp and his collaboration with the legendary Galerie Denise René, Fruhtrunk received a professorship for painting at the Munich Art Academy in 1967, which he held until his death. In 1968, Fruhtrunk participated in documenta IV and the Venice Biennale. His largest retrospectives to date took place in 1993 at the Nationalgalerie Berlin and in 2012 at the Kunstmuseum Vaduz.   

Walter Storms Galerie will show works by 18 internationally renowned artists, newly created for the occasion or drawn from collections, in a "Hommage à Günter Fruhtrunk" (Nov. 9 - Dec. 23, 2023). Some of the artists knew Fruhtrunk personally, others followed him as academy teachers or draw on him as inspiration for their own work.  

Steven Aalders, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Dadamaino, Ulrich Erben, Beverly Fishman, Günther Förg, Rupprecht Geiger, Raimund Girke, Giorgio Griffa, Gregor Hildebrandt, Gerhard Merz, Gerold Miller, Gary Petersen, Thomas Scheibitz, Sean Scully, Turi Simeti, Helmut Sturm, Günther Uecker.  

The Bonn Kunstmuseum will present a comprehensive retrospective of his life's work from Nov. 16, 2023, to March 10, 2024. This exhibition will then move on to the Museum Wiesbaden (April 26 - August 25, 2024).  

 From Nov. 21, 2023, the Städtische Galerie at the Lenbachhaus in Munich will show the exhibition "Günter Fruhtrunk. Die Pariser Jahre (1954–1967)". The exhibition lasts until April 7, 2024.  

Four years ago, Walter Storms Galerie acquired from his heirs the entire remaining visual estate of Günter Fruhtrunk. Numerous works from the estate now complement the above-mentioned exhibitions as loans.  

In particular, we would like to refer to the catalog raisonné, which the Günter Fruhtrunk Gesellschaft has published with Hatje Cantz Verlag.