Günther Torges "Group of houses at the Dreikönigskirche". 1986/1987. Günther Torges1935 Dresden - 1993 ibid. Oil and tempera on canvas. Signed "TORGES" u.li. Verso on the upper stretcher bar signed again in black fibre pencil, titled, technically marked and dated. In a profiled, dark grey glazed artist's frame. Small paint layer flaw lower left under the signature. Dimensions: 80,6 x 100,2 cm, overall 95,1 x 114,8 cm. Günther Torges 1935 Dresden - 1993 ibid. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter 1950-54 activity as a skilled worker. Until 1957 he studied at the Workers' and Peasants' Faculty of Fine Arts in Dresden. 1959-62 attendance of the technical school for applied arts in Leipzig and from 1964 freelance work in Dresden.

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