Günter Jäntsch (1938-1994)
Günter Jäntsch was a sculptor, painter, writer, and type designer.
He went to high school in 1954, and in 1957 completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter. He then studied at the Schule für Graphik und Buchgewerbe in Berlin, where he was inspired by the type designer and typographer Günter Gerhard Lange.
In 1956 he began experimenting with all the trends of modern art. From 1959 he worked in Dusseldorf as a typesetter, trainers, typographer, designer, graphic artist, and copywriter.
In spring 1994 he won fifth prize at an international writing competition in Tokyo.
In 1961 he became a student of the portraitist, caricaturist, and painter Hans Pfannmüller. In 1970 be resumed his sculpture work tutored by the sculptor Hermann King.
From 1983 he gave courses and seminars in portrait and life drawing. In 1984 he published a small volume of poetry "Und es reimt sich doch!" (And yet it rhymes!).
From 1988 he was freelance and a member of the "Berufsverband Bildender Künstler" (Professional Association of Visual Artists).
He worked actively up to his death from the effects of a long-term brain tumor, and at his request his urn was buried in the family grave in Berlin.
[Sven Reinmuth, February 2014]
