Cornelia Weihe
Cornelia Weihe (born September 11, 1959 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German painter and sculptor .
life and work
Immediately after her school education, Cornelia Weihe took part in practical courses in various companies, such as in Colditz in a porcelain factory, in Karl-Marx-Stadt in the Production Cooperative of Crafts (PGH) Vorwärts and in Thale at the Institute for Enamel Architecture . From 1981 to 1988 she studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle in Halle an der Saale , specializing in metal sculpture and enamel with Irmtraud Ohme . In the following years she worked as a freelance artist and in 1990 she was employed as a research assistant at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle .
In 1991 she founded with the sculptor Rainer Henze the studio for metal art . Weihe and Henze exhibited together or individually numerous of their works on the subject of metal figures from September 2007 to December 2008 in Munich , Meiningen , Hofbieber-Kleinsassen , Celle , Merseburg and Bamberg .
After reunification in 1993 Weihe was one of the East and West German sculptors whose works were selected for the exhibition Stahlplastik in Deutschland at the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle. She took part in various sculptor symposia , including the 3rd East Frisian Sculptor Symposium from 1990 for steel sculptors in the East Frisian town of Wittmund with other sculptors such as Klaus Duschat , David Lee Thompson , Wolfram Schneider and Leonard Wübbena , the director of this symposium. She produced her work Große Liegende , which became part of the Dresden State Collection and in 1996 she was awarded the Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture from the city of Pulsnitz .
Cornelia Weihe lives and works in Halle.
Works in public space (selection)
- 1989 torso
- 1990 Large reclining figures , State Collection Dresden Albertinum in Dresden
- 1997/1998 impulse , State Insurance Institute Saxony-Anhalt in Halle
- 2000 standing , Funnix sculpture garden in Funnix
- 2001 Cumulus , Halle- Dieskau
- 2004 Blauer Zweig , Sculpture Path , Sculpture Path Damme in Damme
- 2006 Missile , Halle-Dieskau
- 2006/2007 Zugvogel , Dieskauer Park , Halle
literature
- Steel sculpture Wittmund, City of Wittmund (1990)
- Cornelia Wieg: Steel Sculpture in Germany , Staatl. Gallery Moritzburg Halle (1993)
- Ulrich Barnickel, Ingrid Maut: Exhibition catalog Figures made of metal (2007)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Consecration, Cornelia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |