Gottfried Wiegand

Gottfried Wiegand (* 1926 in Leipzig ; † 2005 Kaarst ) was a German draftsman .

life and work

Gottfried Wiegand had drawing lessons from Emil Schellenberger and studied between 1946 and 1950 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

In 1951 he married the artist Martel Wiegand , and three children were born to the couple. The family lived in Düsseldorf from 1951 and in Kaarst from 1961.

From 1951 to 1954 Gottfried Wiegand had a teaching position for drawing at the fashion school in Düsseldorf and was then employed as a teacher for clay work and drawing at the seminar for working education in Düsseldorf from 1954 to 1980 . He had been the director of the Düsseldorf factory seminar since 1964.

Wiegand was a guest lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1974 to 1975, followed by a guest stay at the Villa Romana , Florence, in 1977 . In 1980 Wiegand was appointed professor at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences , where he worked until 1987.

Gottfried Wiegand drew with pencil , pen and brush , whereby he preferred the color sepia for work with the brush . He chose small picture formats, often circular, and his subjects are often people.

“As a matter of course, the people appearing here are doing completely nonsensical things for normal common sense ... all of which relate to states of the human psyche. They seem very real and natural and yet are pure fiction. They are tangible objectively and yet removed in dreamlike distances. Doing something is always represented, and yet everything seems to remain in floating silence. "

- Quote from Yvonne Friedrichs

Awards

1977: Villa Romana Prize
1987: Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize of the City of Hagen
2001: Art Prize of the Artists , Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

Gottfried Wiegand's work has been shown at numerous exhibitions, including as a member of the New Group in the Munich House of Art , in the Kunstverein Hannover , Osthaus Museum Hagen and Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach . He was invited to take part in documenta 6 in Kassel and was represented at Art Cologne .

As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Wiegand participated in a total of 22 DKB annual exhibitions between 1953 and 1988.

Publications

Gottfried Wiegand: drawings, sculptures, etchings, line cuts. Verlag Kranenburg 1966.
Ingrid Bachér, (Illustrator: Gottfried Wiegand), You don't see ghosts , Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg i.Br., 1975, ISBN 3-7611-0471-5 .
Friedrich W. Heckmanns (Ed.): Querdurch. Drawings by Gottfried Wiegand. Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Wienand, Cologne approx. 1982, ISBN 3-87909118-8 .
Habsburg ABC. Drawings based on the portrait collection in Ambras Castle near Innsbruck. Edition Galerie Bloch, Innsbruck 1982.
Katalin Burmeister u. a. (Ed.). Disegni. In Firenze nell'estate 1984. Drawings. Made in Florence in the summer of 1984. Edizioni Salone Villa Romana, Florence 1985.
Gottfried Wiegand: 12 paintings on paper. Capriccios. With a foreword by Hans van der Grinten , Inter Art Galerie Reich, Cologne 1995.

Web links

Gottfried Wiegand on artnet
rp-online.de: Gottfried Wiegand died (obituary) (accessed on December 3, 2016)

Individual evidence

↑ Helga Bittner: Obituary Gottfried Wiegand. in: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung (NGZ) online , March 30, 2005, accessed on December 17, 2014.
↑ XylonWerkstätten: The work of the Düsseldorf artist family Wiegand at a glance - Discussing secrets .... ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schwetzinger Newspaper. September 22, 2008, accessed December 17, 2014. (PDF file) @1@ 2

↑ Gottfried Wiegand on the Splettstoesser Gallery website, accessed on December 15, 2014.

^ Rheinische Post. Düsseldorfer Feuilleton , March 19, 1982 On quiet feet - Gottfried Wiegand exhibits in the art museum. Retrieved December 15, 2014

↑ s. Wiegand, Gottfried , in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume (VZ / supplements AG) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 . (P 128)

^ Wiegand, Gottfried , in: Kunstreport. nineteen three nineteen ninety five. The German Association of Artists at a Glance , Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 . (P. 135)

personal data
SURNAME	Wiegand, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	2005
Place of death	Kaarst

[1] Helga Bittner: Obituary Gottfried Wiegand. in: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung (NGZ) online , March 30, 2005, accessed on December 17, 2014.

[2] XylonWerkstätten: The work of the Düsseldorf artist family Wiegand at a glance - Discussing secrets .... ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schwetzinger Newspaper. September 22, 2008, accessed December 17, 2014. (PDF file) @1@ 2

[3] Gottfried Wiegand on the Splettstoesser Gallery website, accessed on December 15, 2014.

[4] Rheinische Post. Düsseldorfer Feuilleton , March 19, 1982 On quiet feet - Gottfried Wiegand exhibits in the art museum. Retrieved December 15, 2014

[5] s. Wiegand, Gottfried , in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume (VZ / supplements AG) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 . (P 128)

[6] Wiegand, Gottfried , in: Kunstreport. nineteen three nineteen ninety five. The German Association of Artists at a Glance , Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 . (P. 135)