Helmut Sundhaussen Biography
Helmut Sundhaussen (1935 - 2018) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic designer and representative of concrete art. He also sometimes put his artistic focus on photographs. From 1957 to 1962, Helmut Sundhäusser studied free painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bruno Goller, of whom he became a teacher. The Villa Romana Prize allowed him to stay in Florence for nine months. From 1967 to 1968 he taught for one year as a guest lecturer at the art school in Krefeld. This was followed in 1970 by a scholarship for a one-year stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Subsequently, in 1971, Sundhaußen became a professor of painting at Folkwang University and later at the Department of Design and Art Education at the University of Essen. Since 1973 he has held the title of professor. In the 1980s Sundhäusser experimented with photographic work. Concrete works continued to emerge. He was a member of the Siam Society Bangkok and the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology in East Asia (OAG) in Tokyo, as well as the West German Artists' Association. He has worked regularly in Thailand and Japan, as well as in Brazil and the United States. Furthermore, trips to Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Tibet, Italy and Spain followed. Helmut Sundhäusser has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.
