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The painter Gudrun Brüne died on 25 January 2025 at the age of 83 in Neuruppin after a long illness. With her art, which is characterised by clear, allegorical depictions, cross-generational themes and deep social reflection, she remains an artist of immense, timeless relevance. Gudrun Brünes’ paintings, in which masks, dolls and metaphorical scenes are figuratively depicted, revolve around central questions of human existence: love, transience, manipulation, self-determination, destruction and the search for true identity. These themes, which constitute the fundamental questions of her art, probably also arose from the formative experiences in her life.
Gudrun Brüne was born in Berlin in 1941. At the age of just two, she lost her father, who died on a submarine mission during the Second World War. Together with her mother and sister, she was evacuated to a place near Bremen. In 1947, the family moved to Leipzig, where Gudrun Brüne grew up. At the end of the 1950s, she completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in Pößneck, Thuringia. From 1961 to 1966, she studied under Heinz Wagner and Bernhard Heisig at …
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Image above: Gudrun Brüne in her studio in Strodehne in Havelland, 1992 © Gudrun Brüne Estate
