Baldwin Zettl

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Baldwin Zettl (born September 29, 1943 in Falkenau an der Eger , today Sokolov) is a German graphic artist and engraver . Zettl lives and works in Freiberg (Saxony) .

Life

Zettl's father was a sculptor. After his death and his mother's illness, Zettl grew up with foster parents in Hildburghausen. From 1961 to 1964 he learned the trade of commercial advertising and studied from 1964 to 1969 with Werner Tübke , Gerhard Kurt Müller and Rolf Kuhrt at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art . Diploma with copperplate engravings for Isaak Babel's Die Reiterarmee and Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter . Zettl has been working as a freelancer since 1969.

The extensive works of Zettl are mainly copperplate engravings. Drawings that he likes to make as silver pen drawings are rarer. Zettl does without color. He nuanced with nuances in the technique of copper engraving. Exceptions are prints in white on black paper or sheets of red chalk . The vast majority of his work interprets great literature from the 19th and early 20th centuries (including Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist , Georg Büchner , Heinrich Heine , Theodor Storm , Lion Feuchtwanger , Bertolt Brecht ). This made him one of the most popular book illustrators in the GDR. Zettl's works can be found in all major collections at home and abroad.

Works u. a.

• 1972 Copper engraving sequence for Georg Büchner's "Lenz"
• 2001 Folder for Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen"
• 2008 portfolio with 29 copperplate engravings for "Faust I"
• 2010 portfolio with 40 copperplate engravings for "Faust II"

Awards and a.

• 1969 Hans Meid Prize
• 1969 Walter Tiemann Prize
• 1984 main prize of "Intergrafik"

literature

• Leipzig Bibliophile Evening: Baldwin Zettl. The graphic work 1965 to 2002. A bibliography . Leipzig, 2003.
• Kunstverein Coburg: Altenbourg / Bruszis / Zettl - three masters of the graphic arts . Coburg 2010.
• Hildburghausen City Museum: Baldwin Zettl. Against the current. Engravings, drawings . Hildburghausen 1997.
• Point press, Schwerin: Baldwin Zettl. Drawings . Ratzeburg 1990.
• State art trade: Baldwin Zettl. Copper engravings . Gera 1985.