Gerd Weiland (artist)

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The completed by Gerd Weiland Konrad-Adenauer - Monument in Cologne

Gerhard Weiland , often named Gerd Weiland after his nickname (* 1945 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ), is a German artist who mainly deals with sculpture and painting . He lives in the Niedermirsberg district of Ebermannstadt (Upper Franconia).

education and profession

After attending what was then the ancient language, now Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium, in his hometown and an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Kaiserslautern , Weiland studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Hans Wimmer (1907-1992) in the late 1960s and early 1970s . He spent most of his professional life as a freelancer, from 1973 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1987 he held teaching positions at the Nuremberg Academy.

Works

Weiland was best known for completing Konrad Adenauer's monument in Cologne in 1991 , which Hans Wimmer had begun. In 1999 he created Adenauer's marble bust for the Walhalla in Donaustauf . He had already made the Nuremberg Hennenbrunnen in 1980 , and in 1982 he carved an almost two-meter- long chair with a thrown-over ceiling out of sandstone for the sculpture park in his training town Kaiserslautern .

Awards

Weiland received u. a. the Bavarian State Promotion Prize , the Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize (1982), the Promotion Prize for the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize and the State Academy Prize . In 1984/85 he received a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris .

family

Gerd Weiland was married to an artist colleague, the ceramist and sculptor Gertrud Nein (1943–2012), on whose works he often assisted.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Konrad Adenauer Monument in Cologne. denkmalplatz.de, accessed on April 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Konrad Adenauer: Documentation - Portraits. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , April 2, 2002, accessed April 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Weiland - sculptor + painter. denkmalplatz.de, accessed on April 6, 2015 .
  4. ^ Art in the City of Kaiserslautern - page 8. Art in the City (72). (No longer available online.) Lautringer.de, archived from the original on April 12, 2015 ; Retrieved April 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lautringer.de
personal data
SURNAME Weiland, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiland, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Germany