Bibliography

Recent monograph "Gunter Ullrich. Graphiker und Maler"

This recent, insightful monograph on Gunter Ullrich provides a detailed insight into the life and work of the artist. In addition, the publication contains a comprehensive selected catalog with numerous color illustrations of the artist’s prints, paintings, watercolors, drawings, and collages.

The monograph contains contributions by Klaus Herzog (mayor of Aschaffenburg), Dr. Thomas Richter (director of the Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg), Susanne von Mach, Germar Zieroff, Thomas Ratzka, Gunter Ullrich, Andreas Ullrich, and Brigitte Schad. The publication was edited by Thomas Ratzka and Germar Zieroff.

The monograph is available from bookdealers under the title Gunter Ullrich. Graphiker und Maler, edited by Thomas Ratzka and Germar Zieroff, published by the Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg, Münsterschwarzach 2015, ISBN-13: 978-3924436292.

Accompanying text to the monograph „Gunter Ullrich. Graphiker und Maler“

“On the anniversary of his ninetieth birthday, the cultural city of Aschaffenburg dedicates this monograph, and thus a comprehensive overview of his complete work, to the eminent graphic artist and painter, dedicated educator, and cultural initiator Gunter Ullrich. Ullrich, born and raised in Würzburg, worked in Aschaffenburg from 1952. He is one of the outstanding figures in this rich cultural region on both sides of the Spessart and one of its most important contemporary witness in the twentieth century.

Ullrich’s oeuvre opens a prospect onto significant stages of recent historical development, from the destruction of the Second World War, through the time of reconstruction, and up to many aspects of the present. But Gunter Ullrich is much more than a critical “chronicler of his time”: he further developed printing techniques in the tradition of the great Japanese artists and as an outstanding educator trained the eye of several generations. Ullrich chose his Franconian homeland as the subject of his work at a time when its developed structures were threatened by urban sprawl and industrialization. Early on, he sharpened the consciousness of a new generation for the importance of the identity and beauty of intact nature.

This publication, written by experts and companions of Gunter Ullrich, introduces the depth of his work and also looks at his living environment with its social changes, creating a comprehensive portrait of the artist in his time.”