Tinder and tenderness - Members' exhibition

The exhibition 'Zunder und Zartheit' presents works by members of the Kunstverein from different generations. While the last members' exhibition 'Notre Dame' presented exclusively female artists and we have dealt with feminist themes several times in the past year, we would now like to draw attention to their male colleagues. In his 1984 song 'Männer' (Men), Herbert Grönemeyer satirises various characteristics of men and clichés about them and proclaims that 'men are people too'. For years, old clichés about 'men' have been reproduced and new ones generated, particularly in the context of debates about gender equality. Many men ask themselves what their role is or should be: What does being a man mean in our society? What does this mean for artistic work? The works in the exhibition focus primarily on a poetic approach and manhood in general.
The association was founded in 1893 by artists under the chairmanship of Georg Busch and Gebhard Fugel as a supra-regional, non-profit and independent cultural organisation. The great involvement of various artists in the association today has only developed since the 1990s.
Artists
Friedrich Koller (born in Salzburg in 1939) lives and works in Laufen, Upper Bavaria. He was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1956. He studied under Prof Josef Henselmann. Koller's works often develop from primal or basic forms such as cubes and cylinders, and his figures are also often reduced to simple basic forms. Overall, Friedrich Koller's sculptural work is characterised by simplicity, reduction and abstraction. In his artistic work, Koller implemented the resolutions of the Second Vatican Council at the beginning of the 1960s, which introduced a new liturgy and expressed this in particular with the creation of 'people's altars'.
Manfred Mayerle (born in Munich in 1939) lives and works in Munich and in Jachenau, Upper Bavaria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1959 to 1964 under Josef Oberberger, Hermann Kaspar and Anton Marxmüller. He became a master student in 1963 and passed his state examination in 1964. In 1962 he received a scholarship from the Jubilee Foundation of the City of Munich. He has worked as a freelance artist since 1970. His work includes drawing, painting, sculpture and works interpreting architecture. In 2014, Mayerle was appointed to the Bavarian State Architecture Committee for the field of art. He is a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (BBK), the board of trustees of the Bayerische Einigung and the general board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst. In 2020, Mayerle and his wife Elka Jordanow founded the non-profit 'Stiftung Atelier Manfred Mayerle'.
Günter Nosch (*1956 in Marktoberdorf) lives and works in Weilheim, Upper Bavaria. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1987. His "playful relationship to language" (Nosch) goes back to his artistic beginnings, when he explored concrete poetry before turning to gestural painting. In a contemplative, almost calligraphic process, he used paint and squeegee to create non-representational compositions that simultaneously examined the colour and its structure as traces of this process. For some years now, he has focussed on the material world and its connection with language. Nosch works on poetic systems as an artistic interrogation of writing, signs, things and meaning.
Peter Paul Rast (*1952 born in Munich) lives and works in Munich, Upper Bavaria. From 1973 to 1975 he studied art history and philosophy at the LMU Munich. From 1975 to 1981 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Prof Dr Thomas Zacharias. In 1981 he graduated with the 1st state examination, followed by the 2nd state examination and teaching at a grammar school in 1984. "Beauty has something to do with being touched, it requires a counterpart, says Peter Paul Rast. In his painterly series 'Rose Cuts', he was inspired by a salmon-pink blooming rose as a symbol of the Virgin Mary.
Camill von Egloffstein (*1988 born in Munich) lives and works in Munich, Upper Bavaria. He studied art history and art education at LMU Munich from 2010 to 2013. From 2013 to 2020, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, first with Prof Franz Wanner, then Prof Jorinde Voigt, before moving to Prof Olaf Metzel in 2017. His site-specific works explore the tension between spatial structure and materiality. In addition to participating in exhibitions in Munich, he has also exhibited internationally in Budapest, Vienna and Tel Aviv.
Bruno Wank (*1961 in Marktoberdorf) grew up in Marktoberdorf and came into contact with the profession through his father Martin Wank's bronze casting workshop. He began by studying sports at the Technical University of Munich from 1983 to 1986 and then studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master student of Olaf Metzel until 1992. In 1993 he became head of the study workshop for bronze casting, and from 2007 to 2009 he was Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He has been working as a freelance artist since 1993 and the exhibition features works from the honeycomb flower cycle.

#zunderundzartheit on Instagram (external link, opens in a new window)

Last edited on 28.07.2026