Günter Preuss (carver)

Günter Preuss (* 1930 in Chemnitz ; † January 13, 1996 ) was a German mine cutter and carver from the Saxon Ore Mountains .

Life

Günter Preuss was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, and learned to be a machine fitter after attending school. From 1950 he worked as a miner for the SDAG Wismut . He attended the mining school to qualify as a surveyor , as he was particularly interested in mining, geology and mineralogy.

Due to his artistic inclinations, he went to the special school for painting / graphics in 1964, which he left in 1968 to train as a circle leader for carving / wood design. At the same time he took part in a plastic and ceramic circle. In 1971 he completed his artistic training.

Since 1965 he worked at the district cabinet for cultural work in Karl-Marx-Stadt as a specialist methodologist for carving, sculpture and ceramics. At that time it was intended to set up a training center for Erzgebirge folk art in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in the Siebenschlehener Pochwerk in Schneeberg (Ore Mountains) , in which Günter Preuss was to participate. That's why he moved to Schneeberg in 1970. In 1974, however, the opening took place with a smaller catchment area as a training and further education facility for “visual arts” in the Aue district . Günter Preuss led the carving courses at this institution and thus had a notable contribution to the development of folk carving in the Western Ore Mountains and Vogtland .

Günter Preuss also worked on the regional technical committee for carving / wood design in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district.

In 1990 the district cabinet for cultural work was dissolved and Günter Preuss went into early retirement at the age of 60. In the following time he became active in the newly founded interest group handicrafts, carving, wood design .

His students include u. a. the carver Wolfgang Brückner (* 1951), Eibenstock.

literature

Claus Leichsenring : Günter Preuss in memory . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 42, 1996, No. 2, p. 128.

Individual evidence

^ Claus Leichsenring : Günter Preuss in memory . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 42, 1996, No. 2, p. 128.
^ Special exhibition in the Museum for Mining Folk Art Schneeberg From life. Wood carvings by Wolfgang and Jan Brückner 2011 (PDF, accessed on April 17, 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Preuss, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German markers and carvers from the Saxon Ore Mountains
DATE OF BIRTH	1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1996

[1] Claus Leichsenring : Günter Preuss in memory . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 42, 1996, No. 2, p. 128.

[2] Special exhibition in the Museum for Mining Folk Art Schneeberg From life. Wood carvings by Wolfgang and Jan Brückner 2011 (PDF, accessed on April 17, 2016)