Edgar Klier

Walter Buchheim presented Edgar Klier with the FDGB Art Prize 1960 for his painting “On Site”.

Edgar Klier (born February 23, 1926 in Zwickau ; † June 8, 2015 in Zwickau) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Edgar Klier began an apprenticeship as a ceramic painter in 1940, which he completed in 1943. From 1948 to 1950 Klier studied at the painting and drawing school in Zwickau with Carl Michel and Karl-Heinz Schuster . From 1951 to 1955 he studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Erich Fraaß , Heinz Lohmar , Max Erich Nicola and Rudolf Bergander . The main themes were mining and landscape. After completing his studies, he worked as a freelancer and devoted himself primarily to the topics of mining and landscape. He also worked as a circle leader in the Karl Marx coal works and in the Wismut plant 536 of the SDAG Wismut. Klier was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

"On site". Painting by Edgar Klier. The artist was awarded the FDGB art prize in 1960 for the work.

1960 On site, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister , inventory number: 3121
1954 Production meeting of the miners, Dresden, State Art Collections Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, inventory number: 3018
in the museum at Theaterplatz : Young miner and Zwickau landscape
1962 Portrait of Sepp Zach, brush drawing
1976 Memory of Volgograd, Oil

1958, 1962, 1967 and 1972 art exhibition of the GDR
1974, 1979 and 1985 district art exhibition in Karl-Marx-Stadt
1963 Exhibition 10 years of architecture, fine arts and visual folk creation in Karl-Marx-Stadt
1965 Art Prize Winner of the FDGB, Frankfurt (Oder)
1968 winner of history, Halle (Saale)
1971 Face of the Working Class, Berlin
1982 Portrait + Group, exhibition of the painters and graphic artists section of the VBK / GDR, Karl-Marx-Stadt
1984 retrospective 1945–1984, Karl-Marx-Stadt
also Nuremberg, Bulgaria, Romania and the USSR

Max Pechstein Prize of the City of Zwickau, 1952
Art Prize of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , 1957
Art Prize of the FDGB , 1960
Art award of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district for a commissioned work for the Karl-Marx-Stadt Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 1960
Art Prize of the GDR 1961

Klier, Edgar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 146 .
Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 450 .
Cultural Office in conjunction with the Zwickau Municipal Museums (ed.): Retrospective and Confession. Edgar Klier . Zwickau City Administration, Galerie am Domhof, ISBN 978-3-933282-24-8 .
Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; District Art Center (ed.): Retrospective 1945–1984: Fine arts in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, exhibition on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the GDR from September 28, 1984 to February 14, 1985. Druckhaus Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984. DNB 20982235X

personal data
SURNAME	Klier, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 2015
Place of death	Zwickau