Gottfried Zawadzki
Gottfried Zawadzki (born August 15, 1922 in Kamenz ; † March 6, 2016 there ) was a German artist.
Life
After attending school and training as a decorative painter , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941. In 1943 he received a serious wound that made him unfit for war and allowed him to return home. From 1943 he studied interior design at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and at the same time passed the exam to become a master painter . From 1947 to 1953 he continued his studies, which had been interrupted by the end of the war, at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where he focused on wall painting and graphicsspecialized. In 1953 he received his diploma in graphics and painting and worked as a freelancer in Dresden. In 1963 he went back to his hometown Kamenz, where he worked as an artist until the end of his life. For several years he was chairman of the Westlausitzer Kunstverein founded in 1990.
He achieved particular merits by designing around 500 glass picture windows, murals and concrete glass pictures for church buildings at home and abroad, for which he has received several awards. His works have been presented in over 90 exhibitions since 1953, including in France and the Czech Republic .
His close circle of friends included the Upper Lusatian writer Gottfried Unterdörfer and the painter Georg Baselitz .
Works (selection)
From 1977 to 1981 Gottfried Zawadzki redesigned the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Senftenberg .
Awards
- 1987 Barlach Medal
- 1993 Upper Lusatian Art Prize
- 2003 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Gottfried Zawadzki. Painting - graphics - church interior - glass picture . Bautzen: Lausitzer printing and publishing company. Ministry of Science and Art, Free State of Saxony, City of Kamenz, Westlausitzer Kunstverein, 1993.
- Ten angles. Painting and objects. Exhibition with Eckhard Böttger, Oksana Gansera-Pazych, Bernd Gork, Siegfried Krepp, Gerhart Lampa, Christine Przybilski, Manfred Vollmert, Angela Willeke, Bernd Winkler, Gottfried Zawadzki. With an introduction to “Lusatia and the Arts” by Martin Schmidt , Schwarzheide: Galerie der BASF, 2009.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottfried Zawadzki in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on Zawadzki's homepage
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zawadzki, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2016 |
| Place of death | Kamenz |