Jürgen Schäfer (painter)

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Jürgen Schäfer (born October 23, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

In 1961 Schäfer passed his Abitur. From 1961 to 1965 he studied pedagogy for teaching in Leipzig in the subjects of art education and history . Then he was employed as an art teacher in Böhlen for the school year 1965/66 . From 1966 to 1971 Schäfer studied painting and graphics with Fritz Fröhlich , Harry Blume and Hans Mayer-Foreyt at the University of Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig. Most recently he belonged to Wolfgang Mattheuer's painting class . From 1971 he worked freelance in Leipzig, where he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . His first participation in an exhibition took place in 1972 in the gallery on Sachsenplatz in Leipzig. A funding agreement with the advice of the district Leipzig was from 1974 to 1977. In return, he fulfilled commissions. In 1976 the first solo exhibition was organized by the Kulturbund der DDR , Leipzig district management. In the same year Günter Kunert's novel In the Name of the Hats was published , illustrated with woodcuts by Jürgen Schäfer ( Eulenspiegel-Verlag ). His application for participation in the 8th Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1978 in Dresden was accepted.

The recurring in his works motives or image components of the loaf of bread , a symbol character of necessity, the everyday, the ancient woman's head as a relic under continuous humanistic tradition and concrete colossus which, according to Renate Hartleb stands for the "Second I to fossilization." Ina Gille emphasized the stone metaphor in general : For Schäfer, stones symbolized the estranged person, she wrote.

He continues to work as a freelance artist. He lives in Groß Brütz .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contemporaries in relation to one another and to nature. Jürgen Schäfer exhibition in the lecture hall gallery . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . 20th October 1981.
  2. ↑ Beate Lerchner: Zeitbilder - impetus for people's thinking and feeling. About commissioned works, funding agreements and experience of reality - a look into the workshop of the Leipzig artist Jürgen Schäfer . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . April 9, 1977, Art and Life, p. 13 .
  3. ↑ Renate Hartleb: Schäfers Bildwelt: Attack on the inertia of thinking. For the Jürgen Schäfer exhibition in the lecture hall of the Karl Marx University . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . November 6, 1981, exhibitions.
  4. ↑ Ina Gille: Borrowed Longing? Jürgen Schäfers works in the gallery at the Thomaskirchhof . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . June 20, 1986.

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personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig