Gerhard Wendland - Original color lithograph from 1974 - hand-signed - proof print - framed - Sold

• Gerhard Wendland (born October 29, 1910 in Hanover; died July 23, 1986 in Nuremberg) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was an important representative of abstract art after the Second World War, but was always open to new styles and movements.

Gerhard Wendland studied at the art academy in Hanover. He undertook numerous study trips to Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. After his military service in the Second World War, he was taken prisoner of war by the British in Egypt.
In 1953, Wendland received a scholarship from the Cultural Circle of German Business within the Federation of German Industries. In 1955, he became a member of the German Artists' Association, participating in its annual exhibitions sixteen times between 1952 (at the Staatenhaus am Rheinpark in Cologne) and 1985 (at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover). In 1959, Gerhard Wendland participated in documenta II in Kassel.
In 1956, he took over the management of the Free Painting department at the Hanover School of Applied Arts. In 1960, he was appointed Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (where he worked until 1978) and as a lecturer at the Seminar for Humanities in Nuremberg.
Wendland was a co-founder of Group N and a member of the Albrecht Dürer Society.
In 1981, the Kunsthalle Nürnberg held a major retrospective of his art. The Kunsthaus Nürnberg commemorated his 80th birthday in 1990 with a solo exhibition, and in 2010, for his 100th birthday, the Kunstvilla in the KunstKulturQuartier (in close cooperation with the Neues Museum Nürnberg) presented works from his estate and from the city's collection.
His abstract painting and graphic work were strongly influenced by the work of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. His work was characterized by frequent stylistic shifts. He experimented with, among other things, informal and Op Art elements, as well as lyrical and expressive abstraction.