Klaus Zürner
Klaus-Heinrich Carl Zürner (born November 13, 1932 in Rochlitz ; † March 17, 2010 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Klaus Zürner (often also Klaus Heinrich or Klaus H. Zürner) was the second child of a forester and a singer and pianist. In 1948 he received his first private painting lessons from Hans Weiss in Aue .
After graduating from high school in 1951, he began studying at the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics . Here it was especially his teacher Elisabeth Voigt who shaped him. As a diploma thesis, he created a color woodcut series for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea in 1956 . Already here, but also with the Passion pictures , which were created a little later, it became clear that his expressionist- inspired representation did not correspond to the state-preferred style of socialist realism .
From 1956 Zürner worked as a freelancer in Leipzig. As early as 1957 he was involved in the founding of the Christian gallery "Wort und Werk", which had been located on the market in Leipzig for many years, and of which he was the sole organizer from 1960 to 1990. During this period, 345 exhibitions took place under his direction. Here he presented not only the greats such as Ernst Barlach or Otto Dix, but also artists less accepted in the GDR, including Albert Ebert , Albert Wigand , Edmund Kesting and Gerhard Altenbourg . The “young wild ones ” around Hans-Hendrik Grimmling , Günther Huniat and Lutz Dammbeck also had their say. Many young artists were given the chance to have their first personal exhibition.
Zürner belonged to the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK) from 1957 to 1990 and was able to help young artists get started in management positions, be it in acquiring studio space or overcoming bureaucratic hurdles typical of the GDR. From 1990 he was a board member of the BBK Leipzig and the Künstlerbund Dresden eV .
From 1982 to 1991 Zürner had a teaching position at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1993 he moved to Radebeul and set up his studio there.
Despite a great understanding of the modern in art, Zürner turned to a traditional genre, the portrait. For example, he portrayed Herbert Alfred Stiehl for the series of superintendents in the choir room of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. From 1995 to 2006 he carried out a commission for 17 large-format portraits of important historical scientists for the Senate Hall of the Leipzig University of Technology, Economics and Culture in Leipzig .
His wife Renate, a former fellow student whom he married in 1957, was also an artist.
Honors
Publicly owned works
- Gellert Museum Hainichen
- Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
- Art collection of the University of Leipzig
- Regional council Leipzig
- Municipal art collection , Radebeul
- State Art Collections Schwerin
- Marinow Targoviste Gallery
Book design by Zürner
- Bodo Kühn : The farmers of Molsdorf. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1987, ISBN 9783374002160 .
- Bodo Kühn: Storm night. Union Verlag, Berlin 1967, license no. 395/1673/67 ES8C.
literature
- Rita Jorek: Empty chairs on the vineyard. About the work of the painter Klaus H. Zürner . Leipziger Blätter No. 53 (2008), pp. 46–48
- Klaus H. Zürner - painting, drawing, graphic from 5 decades . Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-938543-26-4
Web links
- Klaus Zürner in the person wiki of the SLUB Dresden
- Klaus Zürner on Art in the GDR
- Klaus H. Zürner at the BBK
- Three pictures in the Deutsche Fotothek: Portrait of my wife , Nature Morte , two monuments
- Art in the GDR , five pictures: 1983 Two monuments; 1987 portrait of Hermann Duncker ; 1988/1989 portrait of Oskar Klein ; 1989 Torgau flat glass factory ; 1989 Hartenfels Castle , Torgau and the old Elbe bridge
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zürner, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zürner, Klaus-Heinrich Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 2010 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |