Günter Fruhtrunk is regarded as one of the most prominent German painters and graphic artists of a geometrical abstraction.
Günter Fruhtrunk, who was a trained architect, had worked with Jean Arp and Fernand Léger in Paris in the 1950s. Based on Concrete Art, he developed his own characteristic style, which in its dynamic went far beyond the constructive tendencies of geometric abstraction: With diagonal, vertical or horizontal structures of bars in strong and alternating colors he created an art that alludes to the image's inner reality. Form and color have become detached from any kind of "meaning", depth and sequences of the pictorial grounds have disappeared entirely - "Freedom of vision" is what Günter Fruhtrunk called this principle.
Works by Günther Fruhtrunk are on display in renowned national and international museums, such as the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Musée d'Ixelles in Brussels or the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.