Günter Fruhtrunk

Günter Fruhtrunk was a 20th C painter of Monegasque origin, born in Monaco in 1923. He began his studies at the Technischen Hochschule in Monaco in 1940, although he interrupted his studies to volunteer in many projects. During this period, he made watercolours as a form of distraction from the realities of war. In 1945 he travelled to Neufrach where he studied painting with William Straube, a pupil of Hölzel and Matisse, staying five years. He opened his first gallery exhibition at the Galerie Der Kunstspiegel in Freiburg in 1947, and during the 1950s he participated in many salon exhibitions and group shows in Paris, including “Peintures et Scultures non figurative en Alemagne d'aujourd'hui” at Cercle Volnay and “50 Jahre abstrakte Malerei” at the Galerie Kreuze. In 1960 he had a... Show more