Gerd Jaeger

This article describes the sculptor and painter Gerd Jaeger. For the architect of the same name, see Gerd Jäger .

Gerd Jaeger: Female nude , bronze, 1984/85, gardens of the Hotel Bellevue on the Neustädter Elbe bank in Dresden

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

• List of the winners of the National Prize of the GDR III. Art and Literature Class (1980–1989)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Gerd Jaeger , in: Sächsische Zeitung of January 12, 2019.