Joachim Gutsche

During the years of the Second World War, Joachim Gutsche learned the profession of a technical draftsman. He completed his war service in 1945, and in 1946 he was taken prisoner by the British. After his release, he worked as a technical draftsman at the Crossener paper factory. In 1950, he attended the painting class at the Robert Schumann Academy in Zwickau, and later studied painting at the West Berlin Academy of Fine Arts with Hans Uhlmann, Hans Jaenisch, Hans Kuhn, and Bernhard Dörries. He completed his studies in 1959 and worked as a member of Bernhard Dörries’ staff for color design and art in buildings from 1960 to 1963.

Gutsche's works were featured in several solo exhibitions, including the art show at the Paula Modersohn-Becker-Haus in Bremen in 1964, the Bildungszentrum in Gelsenkirchen in 1974, the Wertheim Gallery in Berlin in 1977, and the Rathaus-Galerie in Berlin-Neukölln in 1981. He also participated in group exhibitions such as the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1960, the “1. Mai-Salons” at the Haus am Lützowplatz in 1974, 1981, and 1983, and “Malerei Materialbilder” at the Haus am Kleistpark in 1982.