ALFONS LACHAUER
Flash in the pan
November 15, 2024 - January 25, 2025
"No other living artist combines two areas of color into one picture with such natural simplicity," writes the
Sculptor Alf Lechner on his friend Alfons Lachauer.
To mark his 80th birthday this year, Galerie Mathias Güntner is showing selected works from
the last 20 years of Alfons Lachauer. With the title, Lachauer refers to the past 60 years of
of his work, which have passed like a "flash in the pan".
Alfons Lachauer (*1944 in Rosenheim) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the 1960s
in Munich under Günther Fruhtrunk and follows the tradition of concrete and constructivist painting.
In Lachauer's work, the three-dimensional picture support gives the paint the necessary body and space. Form and
Color form equally important elements from which the picture is constituted. There are always
at least two color surfaces directly opposite each other, enter into a dialogue with each other.
His works are characterized by an unusual, alien colourfulness and are marked by clarity
and a quiet elegance. Lachauer generally prefers cool colors with a high proportion of white. In the
However, most people like to associate cool colors with rationality. This is how
Alfons Lachauer's cool, structured colorfulness makes the oil paintings seem rather alien to the viewer.
perceived.
His painting is done by hand. He carefully applies layer after layer to the picture carrier until the
color gets its desired depth. On closer inspection, the brushstroke can be recognized despite the
monochrome colorfulness of the painted surfaces.
Lachauer's work is represented in important museums, including the Lembachhaus Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich, Wilhelm Hack Museum Heilbronn, Museum Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt or in the Staatlichen
Museum of Art and Design Nuremberg.
Flash in the pan
November 15, 2024 - January 25, 2025
"No other living artist combines two areas of color into one picture with such natural simplicity," writes the
Sculptor Alf Lechner on his friend Alfons Lachauer.
To mark his 80th birthday this year, Galerie Mathias Güntner is showing selected works from
the last 20 years of Alfons Lachauer. With the title, Lachauer refers to the past 60 years of
of his work, which have passed like a "flash in the pan".
Alfons Lachauer (*1944 in Rosenheim) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the 1960s
in Munich under Günther Fruhtrunk and follows the tradition of concrete and constructivist painting.
In Lachauer's work, the three-dimensional picture support gives the paint the necessary body and space. Form and
Color form equally important elements from which the picture is constituted. There are always
at least two color surfaces directly opposite each other, enter into a dialogue with each other.
His works are characterized by an unusual, alien colourfulness and are marked by clarity
and a quiet elegance. Lachauer generally prefers cool colors with a high proportion of white. In the
However, most people like to associate cool colors with rationality. This is how
Alfons Lachauer's cool, structured colorfulness makes the oil paintings seem rather alien to the viewer.
perceived.
His painting is done by hand. He carefully applies layer after layer to the picture carrier until the
color gets its desired depth. On closer inspection, the brushstroke can be recognized despite the
monochrome colorfulness of the painted surfaces.
Lachauer's work is represented in important museums, including the Lembachhaus Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich, Wilhelm Hack Museum Heilbronn, Museum Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt or in the Staatlichen
Museum of Art and Design Nuremberg.