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Günter Fruhtrunk (May 1923 – December 12 1982) was a German painter and printmaker who is classified as a geometric abstract artist and whose work relates to Op Art. Fruhtrunk studied architecture at the ‘Technische Hochschule’ in Munich which he gave up after two semesters to join the army as a volunteer in the fall of 1941. In 1945 Fruhtrunk began to study privately under the painter and printmaker William Straube in Neufrach who was a student of Hölzel and Matisse.