Horst Weber (painter)

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Horst Weber (born January 21, 1932 in Olbersdorf ; † February 5, 1999 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist

biography

Horst Weber completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and script painter from 1947 to 1950. From 1952 to 1957 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Erich Fraaß , ME Nicola, Hans Christoph and Heinz Lohmar . From 1957 he worked as a freelance artist. From 1976 until the closure of the evening studies department in 1992, he was a lecturer at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, since 1986 in the evening school's painting class.

His painterly work is characterized by expressive colourfulness and is based on the painters of German expressionism and classical modernism . With his artist colleagues Claus Weidensdorfer , Manfred Schubert, Fritz Skade and Günter Tiedeken , he founded an “active visual artist in the Dresden-East district ” in September 1963 , with the intention of using the skylight hall of the studio building of the late romantic painter Eduard Leonhardi for exhibitions. The result was the Leonhardi Museum , an unusual form of exhibition space managed by artists in the GDR. In his self-image as an avowed Christian Weber observed a distance from the official cultural policy of the GDR.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1964: Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
  • 1976: Glockenspiel pavilion of the Zwinger , Dresden
  • 1978: Club gallery, Magdeburg
  • 1980: Galerie West, Dresden
  • 1982: Galerie Mitte, Dresden
  • 1986: Art exhibition Kühl, Dresden
  • 1990: Galerie Mitte, Dresden
  • 1992: Kreuzkirche , Dresden
  • 1997: Kreuzkirche, Dresden
  • 1998: Lausitz Art Collection, Senftenberg Castle
  • 2000: Galerie Finkbein, Gotha
  • 2012: Zittau Municipal Museums

Participation in exhibitions

Works in museums and collections (selection)

  • State Art Collections Dresden
  • Lausitz Art Collection, Senftenberg Castle
  • Beeskow Art Archive

literature

  • Horst Weber, 7 color reproductions. Kirchlicher Kunstverlag Dresden, 1988.
  • Renate Weber (Ed.): Horst Weber. Painting and graphics 1957–1990. R. Weber [self-published], Dresden 2002. (Catalog is on the occasion of the artist's 70th birthday in 2002, 125 pages)
  • Renate Weber (Ed.): Horst Weber. Painting and graphics 1957–1999. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2000.
  • Weber, Horst. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 1001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernd Rosner: The Leonhardi Museum . In: Eckart Gillen, Rainer Haarmann (Hrsg.): Art in the GDR . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990, ISBN 3-462-02068-4 , pp. 291-292 .
  2. ↑ Cornelie Becker-Lamers: Horst Weber, Dresden. Painting. September 3, 2000, accessed June 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Weber-Werke return to the foundation in Upper Lusatia. In: lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau, January 21, 2012, accessed on June 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Horst Weber. In: bildatlas-ddr-kunst.de. Picture atlas Art in the GDR , accessed on June 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Olbersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1999
Place of death Dresden