Erich Walz

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Erich Walz (born February 26, 1927 in Kirchheim unter Teck ; † September 17, 2011 in Ammerbuch ) was a German special educator , graphic artist and wood cutter .

life and work

Walz grew up in the Swabian Alb . From 1943 to 1945 he did military service, studied pedagogy in 1946/1947 and worked in general school service until 1959. After studying special education in 1951/1952, he worked as a special school teacher . From 1963 to 1973 he was the rector of the Lehenschule Stuttgart, a school for the disabled and training school for special needs teachers in Baden-Württemberg and Saarland.

Erich Walz trained himself to become a wood cutter. From 1957 to 1960 he was a guest at the Free Art School in Stuttgart. The focus of his artistic work was woodcut and wood printing . In 1968 he created his 42-part series Totentanz '68 . Working with Friedrich Hölderlin in the 1980s, he created several woodcut sequences and individual images of the poet's work. Walz was represented annually at the “Artists of the Stuttgart Neckar Locations” and in 1995 became a member of the German section of the “International Association for Artistic High Pressure XYLON ”. In the same year he self-published an overview of his works with 146 color and 153 black-and-white illustrations under the title " Auge & Messer ". His subjects were often biblical subjects.

Walz was married twice and lived and worked in Hausen am Tann . Since 1997 the community has provided him with rooms for his own gallery, in return the community received numerous works of art. He spent the last years of his life in a nursing home in the Tübingen district.

His works have been represented in solo exhibitions and exhibition participations, for example in 2002 and 2003 he took part in the traveling exhibition Interfaces - Woodcuts from Germany and France of the XYLON association in the Spendhaus in Reutlingen , which also in the Musée Pierre-Noël in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges as well has been shown in Japan and Israel.

After his death, his son continued the Erich Walz gallery in Hausen am Tann, and from the estate enabled greater access to the artist's work. The gallery had to close in 2016.

Publications

  • "Kolomb" (after Hölderlin) , woodcut series and text supplement, self-published, Hausen am Tann 1985
  • INH sequence of images with woodcuts and text supplement in folder, self-published, Hausen am Tann 1985
  • Death in life - life in death. "Dance of Death '68". Woodcuts and texts. Illustrated; Text: Kurt Rommel , Christliche Verlagsanstalt, Konstanz 1991, ISBN 3-7673-7108-1 .
  • Eye & knife. Shape, sign, finding. Woodcuts & Wood Prints. Verlag Tübinger Chronik, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-9803568-2-5 .

literature

  • Kurt Rommel: Food, Suffering, Resurrection. Thoughts on a woodcut triptych by Erich Walz. Ill., Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7918-2389-2 .
  • Adolf Smitmans: Insights - Artistic focus of the art collection of the Zollernalb district. In: Adolf Smitmans, Andreas Zekorn: Insights. The art collection of the Zollernalb district. Landratsamt Zollernalbkreis October 24 to November 26, 2002, exhibition and catalog, Ed. Zollernalbkreis, Albstadt 2002, ISBN 978-3-927249-16-5 , pp. 25-40, here pp. 35 f. Also illustration Auferstehn (1964) p. 82, short biography Erich Walz p. 121. Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lydia Wania: Hausen am Tann: Works by Erich Walz will be auctioned , Südwest Presse , March 17, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Walz, Erich (short biography), in: Adolf Smitmans, Andreas Zekorn: Insights. The art collection of the Zollernalb district. District Office Zollernalbkreis October 24 to November 26, 2002, exhibition and catalog, Ed. Zollernalbkreis, Albstadt 2002, ISBN 978-3-927249-16-5 , p. 121. Online
  3. ↑ a b Erich Walz , Galerie Klaus Schmitt
  4. ↑ Johann Kreuzer (Ed.): Hölderlin-Handbuch: Life - Work - Effect. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02402-2 , chapter aftermath in the visual arts , p. 494; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Galerie Erich Walz , in: Museums and Collections on the Zollernalb , Zollernalb-Touristinfo, October 20, 2008
  6. ↑ Spendhaus Reutlingen: 10.05. - 12/01/2002 XYLON. In: germangalleries.com. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Claudia Ackermann: A treasure and a burden , bkz-online.de , November 29, 2013
  8. ↑ Angela Hildebrandt, Judith Fischer: Hausen am Tann: Galerie Walz must move out now , Schwarzwälder Bote , March 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Walz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German special educator and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 2011
Place of death Ammerbuch