Gudrun Dorsch

The artist spent her childhood in Munich. Her mother, an artist herself, discovered her daughter’s versatile talents early on and encouraged her talent in drawing, painting, sewing and modeling. Excessive, imaginative and idiosyncratic, Gudrun Dorsch transformed her diverse ideas into her first works of art, and so she received commissions for book illustrations and calendar pages, even at a young age. Hieronymus Bosch, Salvator Dali, Gottfried Helnwein, H.R. Giger and Tommy Ungerer fascinated the young artist with their symbols and hidden messages. Inquisitive, she immersed herself in the unreal worlds of the artists and tried to decipher their messages.
In 1979, Gudrun Dorsch began training at the Blocherer School in Munich and learned more ways of communicating through commercial art. After successfully graduating as a graphic designer, the young artist entered salaried employment. At the same time she worked for various publishing houses, companies and institutions. Her best-known work from this period is probably the logo and CI of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Francis Vierzehnheiligen (Archdiocese of Bamberg), which is still in use worldwide.
Despite animal cartoons, poetry books, and design/advertising commissions, her affinity for drawing people remained. She understood the movement of people and their expressions as a language of their own, and so she continued to study and draw bodies in bizarre movement sequences in order to achieve perfection. Visual communication as a non-verbal language, in any form, fascinated her.
The births of her 2 children initially slowed the artist in her creative urge, but also provided time and opportunity for her studies. Children and youth projects as well as various lecturing activities characterized this time.
Increasingly, however, she was also concerned with social minorities and social exclusion. She mostly dealt with social injustices and grievances in her drawings. Her early works were therefore socially critical and provocative.
In 2014, her children were now almost grown up, she established her further life with solo and group exhibitions.
Continuously Gudrun Dorsch reduced her figures more and more. Covering, concealing, veiling the obvious… the formerly “wrapped” became more and more “bodiless”, consisting of ribbons, sensual and emotional beings. Unmistakably, the artist, with her “wrapped figures”, has found her own style and is now represented internationally.

Current and planned exhibitions

Galerie Beck, Solo exhibition – Retrospektive, February 17-March 10, Homburg/Saar, DEU
Verum Arte, Collective exhibition, March 18-25, Florence, ITA
ArtMuc , Artfair, March 24-26 , Munich, DEU
ARTe Stuttgart, Artfair, April 14-16, Stuttgart, DEU
Art Karlsruhe, International Artfair, 4.-7. May, Karlsruhe, DEU
ARTe Wiesbaden, Artfair, September 8-10, Wiesbaden, DEU
SupermArt, Artfair, October 6-8, Nuremberg, DEU
ArtMuc, Artfair, 27-29 October, Munich, DEU