Gerd Jaeger
Gerd Jaeger (born September 16, 1927 in Förderstedt ; † January 10, 2019 ) was a German sculptor and painter .
Life
After serving in the military and being a prisoner of war, in 1949 he began studying at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts under Martin Domke and Otto Herbig . In 1951 he moved to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where he attended the plastic class with Eugen Hoffmann and Walter Arnold . In 1963 he became a lecturer there and in 1971 a professor .
Jaeger received the FDGB Art Prize in 1967 and 1987 , the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden in 1970 , the GDR Art Prize in 1981 , the Schwabing Art Prize in 1987 and the GDR National Prize .
Gerd Jaeger died at the age of 91.
literature
- Gerd Jaeger - sculpture and drawings. , Albertinum, Dresden, 1985.
- Nationalgalerie Berlin - Art in the GDR , Seemann Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-86502-077-1 .
- Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy: Dresden sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20101-2 , p. 278 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Marcus Kenzler: The view into the other world. Influences of Latin America on the fine arts of the GDR. Part 1. LIT VERLAG, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11025-1 , p. 791 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- When drawing was vital , Sächsische Zeitung, January 2019
- Jaeger has immortalized Dresden's history at www.saechsische.de (accessed on January 15, 2019).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice Gerd Jaeger , in: Sächsische Zeitung of January 12, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jaeger, Gerd |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Förderstedt |
DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2019 |