Berthold Dietz

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Berthold Dietz working on the sculpture "Lot's wife solidifies into a pillar of salt"

Berthold Dietz (born January 20, 1935 in Zwickau ) is a German sculptor .

Life

His training as a stonemason and sculptor took place between 1949 and 1954. From 1952 to 1955 he attended the painting and drawing school in Zwickau, then from 1955 to 1960 he studied sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . He has been living freelance in Lichtentanne since 1960 . Several study trips took him abroad.

He has been the head of the Lichtentanne plastic circle since 1964 . He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR from 1964 to 1990, and since 1990 of the Federal Association of Visual Artists and of the Chemnitz Artists' Association.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Children's dance fountain with plastic Children playing (1968), main market in Zwickau

  • Large wool monkey (1971), cast concrete, 100 cm high, tropical house in the city hall in Chemnitz

  • Sinnende (1974), City Hall Park in Chemnitz

  • Tuchmacherbrunnen (1984), Katharinenstrasse in Zwickau

  • Connectedness - Large Knot (1995), Reinhardtsdorfer sandstone, 215 cm high, 100 cm wide, 1st prize in the art in architecture competition, authorities park in Hoyerswerda

  • Trabant monument, Georgenplatz in Zwickau (since 2015 at the August Horch Museum in Zwickau)

literature

  • Traugott Stephanowitz: Visiting a young sculptor. In: Bildende Kunst , Dresden 1964, pp. 370–372
  • Traugott Stephanowitz: Berthold Dietz. In: Bildende Kunst , Dresden 1970, pp. 633–634
  • Werner Markgraf: Berthold Dietz: a 70-year-old writes art and cultural history in Zwickau. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter (27) , Olbernhau 2005, pp. 22–24

Web links

Commons : Berthold Dietz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sculptures in downtown Chemnitz: Berthold Dietz. stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de, December 4, 2009, accessed on September 22, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietz, Bertold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau , Germany