Günther Förg began his art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen in 1973. In 1980 the Galerie Schöttle in Munich arranged Förg's first solo show. Further exhibition, among others in Chicago, Zurich, Munich and Cologne follow. Förg was represented at Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992. A renowned exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam followed in 1995. TheZKM Karlsruhe appointedGünther Förg as professor in 1993. Asof 1999 he held a post at the Academyof Fine Arts in Munich. With his works Günther Förg probes the boundaries between the genres painting, photography, graphic art and sculpting, he is on a constant quest for new positions of form, color and expression – just as it is the case with this work, which, for its lucent abstract play of colors, hints at figurative notions. InDecember 2013 Günter Förg died in Freiburg im Breisgau. His works are in possession of numerous renowned collections, among them the Städelsche Kunstinstitut Frankfurt a.M. and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.