Frank Diettrich

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Frank Diettrich (born October 10, 1939 in Chemnitz ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Frank Diettrich was born in Chemnitz in 1939 as the son of the sculptor Hanns Diettrich and the singer and pianist Alice Diettrich. From 1954 to 1957 he completed an apprenticeship as a stone mason and stone sculptor. From 1957 to 1962 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Walter Arnold , Gerd Jaeger and Hans Steger . Diettrich graduated with a diploma in plastic in 1962. In 1975/1976 he was appointed to a master class at the Berlin Academy of the Arts with Gerhard Geyer and completed his studies with the title of master class . From 1963 to 1968 he worked as a circle leader in the city cabinet for cultural work in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1962 to 1990 Diettrich worked as a freelance academic sculptor in Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz and was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . Since 1991 he has been involved in artistic activities as a qualified sculptor as well as sculptural restoration and has been a full member of the Society of Visual Artists of the Künstlerhaus Wien on Karlsplatz since 1996 . In 1993 he started a stone cutting company. He has also been Director of Sculpture & Forming Art Limited in Neukirchen / Erzgebirge since 2006 . Study trips took him to Czechoslovakia in 1958 and to the USSR in 1967 . Frank Diettrich is a member of the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund and the Federal Association of Visual Artists .

Works

  • 1967: Border soldier, bronze, originally placed in front of the "House of the Army" or the "House of the Border Troops of the GDR" in Plauen, since 1992 in Mödlareuth
  • 1974: Bratzk construction workers, plaster, tinted
  • 1974: Youngsters on the landing stage, bronze
  • 1981: Wilhelm Pieck statue, bronze
  • 1986: Portrait bust of Eduard Theodor Böttcher , bronze

Honors

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1982 and 1987: Art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1974, 1979 and 1985: District art exhibition Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1963: Exhibition 10 Years of Architecture, Fine Arts and Visual Folk Creation in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1968: International art exhibition for the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sofia
  • 1975: Small sculptures and graphics, traveling exhibition
  • 1978: Master students of the German Academy of the Arts exhibit, Berlin
  • 1984: Retrospective 1945–1984, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1987: Sculpture drawings in the GDR, Dresden
  • 2000: Reflection, Klaffenbach moated castle
  • also exhibitions in the USSR, Bulgaria, ČSSR and Poland

literature

  • Renate Hagedorn: Diettrich, Frank . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 317.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 151 .
  • Municipal museums Karl-Marx-Stadt (Hrsg.): Sculpture: Sculptor of the district Karl-Marx-Stadt . Druckhaus, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1989, OCLC 313512425 .
  • Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; Bezirkskunstzentrum (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 . Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984, DNB  20982235X .
  • Exhibition Frank Diettrich, sculpture, Heinz Schumann, writing: Peasant War Memorial Panorama Bad Frankenhausen from May 15-14. September 1980 . Publisher Bad Frankenhausen, Bad Frankenhausen 1980, DNB  209257938 .

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personal data
SURNAME Diettrich, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz