“Lutz Brandt: Paintbrush, Drawing Board and Facades. My Life as an Artist in Berlin”

Supporting Program for the Special Exhibition PURe Visions. Plastic Furniture between East and West

Lutz Brandt (Open in new tab)(1938-2024) studied architecture under Selman Selmanagić at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art and was a master student in painting under Walter Womacka. Er schuf in Ost- und in Westberlin Giebelbilder und gestaltete U-Bahnhöfe, war Architekt, Designer, Gebrauchsgrafiker, Bühnenbildner, Filmausstatter, u.a. in Zusammenarbeit mit Oscar-Preisträger Ken Adam. – The special exhibition features examples of his work, interior studies with polyurethane furniture. He also proved himself a gifted storyteller with his autobiography. Before the work went to print, he passed away in January 2024. Günter Höhne (Open in new tab), a close friend of Brandt, reviewed and organized his estate and published the autobiography with Verlag Neues.