Kay Winkler

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Elser bust (2008), Berlin

Kai (Kay) Winkler (* 1956 in Kirchheim unter Teck , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German sculptor and installation artist .

life and work

Winkler was trained in painting and graphics by Heinrich C. Berann in Innsbruck from 1976 to 1979 . 1976-1980 he trained at the vocational school for wood sculpture in Bischofsheim an der Rhon to wood sculptor , from 1981 to 1982 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and from 1982 to 1988 sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

In 1992 he received a project grant from the City of Munich , in 1995 the Model Prize of the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , in 1996 the Nymphenburg Art Prize (Marie Luise Lentz Prize), in 1997 the Budapest grant from the City of Munich , in 1998 a prize from the Berlin Cultural Fund Foundation and in 1999 a scholarship from the city of Bamberg from the Bavarian state .

The artist lives and works in Munich and Berlin .

Georg Elser

Winkler created a bust of Georg Elser on behalf of the Ernst Freiberger Foundation , which was unveiled on September 24, 2008 by Federal Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Ernst Freiberger in the Street of Remembrance at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin . In 2008 he created a six-meter-high sculpture by Elser, who had attacked Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1939 , which was in the German pavilion at the Expo 2000 world exhibition in Hanover .

Works (selection)

Pavilion - sloping walls (2003), Ständerstraße , Munich-Neuperlach

Web links

Commons : Kay Winkler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press review: "Georg Elser Monument in the Moabiter Spreebogen in Berlin" (2008)
  2. ^ At the Expo in Hanover: A bust of the Hitler assassin Johann Georg Elser (2000)
  3. ↑ Figure Light Shrine (2007)
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Kay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkler, Kai (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck , Baden-Wuerttemberg