Helmut Wagner (set designer)

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Helmut Wagner (born March 28, 1936 in Schneidemühl , West Prussia , today Piła , Poland , † July 23, 2009 in Dresden ) was a German set designer , painter and university teacher. In his teaching, he attached great importance to the combination of artistic creativity and solid technical training. He tied the variety of creative and technical possibilities of the set designer to the respective time-bound scenic realization of the specific piece content.

Life

Helmut Wagner was born in 1936 as the youngest of four children of a qualified farmer. His mother was initially a housewife and later worked as a language teacher for Russian after fleeing. From 1942 Wagner attended elementary school in Insterburg , East Prussia (today Chernyachovsk , Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ). The family fled to Thuringia in 1944 . Wagner graduated from the Lessing High School in Erfurt in 1954 and began his professional career in 1955 as a stage worker at the Erfurt theater . From 1956 to 1958 he studied theater painting at the Technical School for Applied Arts in Leipzig and from 1958 to 1963 stage and costume design with Hans Reichard at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . He then worked at the state theaters of Saxony and at the German National Theater Weimar until 1967 , where he participated in Fritz Bennewitz's productions of Faust from 1965–1967.

In addition to his GDR-wide productions (in addition to Erfurt, Dresden and Weimar, among others in East Berlin, Chemnitz, Schwerin, Halle, Bautzen, Zwickau), he then took on a teaching position as senior assistant at the HfBK Dresden, where he became lecturer and head of the Department of stage and costume design and was appointed professor in this subject in 1984. Upon invitation, he staged at the National Theater Nicosia (Cyprus, 1978) and at the City Theater Lappeenranta (Finland, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987). He also took part in the first Prague Quadrennial for Theater Architecture and Scenographic Creation in 1967 and exhibited there in 1975. In 1988 he designed the set for the performance of Heinrich von Kleist's The Broken Krug at the State German Drama Theater in Temirtau in the Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan ). From 2001 Wagner was a member of the artist group L'Villa.

Helmut Wagner was married and had two children. His son-in-law is the historian Armin Wagner .

Exhibitions set design (selection)

literature

  • Ingo Sandner (Ed.): Forty Years of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts 1947–1987. Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden 1987, without ISBN.
  • Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz u. a. (Ed.): Artists on the Elbhang. First volume. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 1999, ISBN 978-3-936240-01-6 .
  • Citizen portraits. Edition Region Sachsen 2009. Volume I. Lipsia-Presence-Verlag, Delitzsch 2009, ISBN 978-3-938128-53-4 .
  • Iven Zwanzig: Helmut Wagner. Catalog raisonné of sketch sheets (mixed media). Self-published, Dresden 2012, without ISBN.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Iven Zwanzig: Helmut Wagner. Catalog raisonné . In: Iven Zwanzig (ed.): Sketch sheets (mixed techniques) . Dresden 2012, p. Preface (unpaginated) .
  2. ^ Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz (ed.): Artists on the Elbhang . First volume. Dresden 1999, p. 168 .
  3. ↑ Ingo Sandner (Ed.): Forty Years of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts 1947-1987 . Dresden 1987, p. 102 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, painter and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2009
Place of death Dresden