With around 25 paintings and prints from the Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt Collection, the Kunstmuseum Ahlen is showing one of the most comprehensive private collections of the work of Günter Fruhtrunk (1923–1982). The artist's works in the collection, dating from 1958 to 1982, illustrate not only the particular construction and visual presence of the individual work, but also stages of his artistic journey. Immediately after the war, Günther Fruhtrunk took art lessons from William Straube and soon became interested in the legacy of non-objective modernism through his acquaintance with Willi Baumeister and Julius Bissier. He was artistically self-taught and worked in the 1950s in the studios of Fernand Léger and Hans Arp in his adopted home of Paris. He developed his own reduced vocabulary and the pictorial structures that characterize him from constructivist art. Through his art and teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he was one of the most important representatives of Concrete Art in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. His art is currently attracting a great deal of attention and recognition.
