Gerd Winner

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Gerd Winner
Jakobsleiter (2000), Salzgitter-Bad sculpture trail
Marie Juchacz , Gitschiner Strasse 110, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Gerd Winner (born October 8, 1936 in Braunschweig ) is a German painter and graphic artist.

life and work

Winner studied painting from 1956 to 1962 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, became a master student of Werner Volkert in 1961/62 , and has since lived as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Berlin, Braunschweig and London. Since 1964 he has worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Berlin, and since 1975 as professor for painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . The baroque palace in Liebenburg , which is located on the site of the former Liebenburg castle , has been Winner's place of residence and work since 1974 .

His works are exhibited in international museums and galleries. In 1977 he took part in documenta 7 Kassel, organized by Manfred Schneckenburger . An example from this period is the painting End in acrylic on canvas from 1981.

Winner became known through large-format works in public spaces using the technique of artistic screen printing he carried out in collaboration with Chris Prater (Kelpra Studio London). The extensive graphic cycles London Transport , London Docks , Roadmarks , New York Times Square , the artistic examination of urban culture and structures as well as the artistic design of the Dominican churches of St. Albertus Magnus in Braunschweig and Heilig Kreuz in Cologne are remarkable . In 2000 Gerd Winner designed and built the "House of Silence" - a walk-in sculpture - as a room on the site of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Visitors can gather here and pause. The design and execution of the room reflects the brutal and inhuman significance of this place.

On February 17th, 2008 an altarpiece he created was inaugurated in the parish church of St. Mary's Assumption in Bad Gandersheim . The chancel had been redesigned since 2004 according to plans by the Hanoverian architect Klaus Determann . Works by the artist can be found in the collection of the Tate Gallery in London.

Gerd Winner's work was added to the portal artist database and estate archive Lower Saxony .

Awards and honors

Gerd Winner has received numerous national and international prizes for his artistic achievement, including a .:

Publications

  • Urban structures 1980 - 1990. With articles by EA Quensen, B. Holeczek, L. Romain, RW Gassen and E. Roters. Lamspringe 1991
  • Stadt Raum 1968 - 1996. Work monograph. With articles by L. Romain, M. Boetzkes, P. Gilmour, E. Roters, HA Gunk, EA Quensen and H. Mersmann. Lamspringe 1996
  • Braunschweig - our city. Photo book in collaboration with Eckhard Schimpf. Edition Braunschweiger Zeitung 2002
  • Urban structures Berlin-New York 2006 , publisher EA Quensen, Lamspringe

literature

  • Dieter Blume (Ed.): Winner. Pictures and graphics 1970-1980. With text contributions by Pat Gilmour and Lothar Romain, with the catalog raisonné of the silkscreen prints 1968–80. Braunschweig 1980
  • Wieland Schmied : Presence and Eternity. Traces of the transcendent in the art of our time , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin April 7 to June 24, 1990, Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1990; ISBN 3-89322-179-4
  • Christian W. Thomsen: Gerd Winner. Berlin-London-New York, urban structures. Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-791320-10-6
  • Friends of the House of Silence: Bergen-Belsen - House of Silence. Walk-in sculpture; House of Silence. Walk-in Sculpture. Hanover 2000.
  • Jürgen Conrad / Marianne Winter: Gifhorn Castle; Changes , Historisches Museum Schloss Gifhorn, Gifhorn 2012, ISBN 978-3-929632-90-3 .

Web links

Commons : Gerd Winner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uta Catharina Sienel: The screen printing and its print media , accessed on February 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Monumental tenderness ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Tate Gallery website
  4. ^ Liebenburg names Winner an honorary citizen in the Braunschweiger Zeitung of November 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Winner, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig