Klaus von Woyski

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Klaus von Woyski (born January 9, 1931 in Stolp ; † May 11, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German painter , graphic artist and restorer .

Life

Klaus von Woyski grew up as the youngest of three sons in the von Woyski family in Stolp and Ritzow . In 1946 he was resettled from there with his parents and brother Jürgen (1929–2000). The family came to Osterwieck in the Harz Mountains in 1947 , while the eldest brother, Wolfgang (1926–2007), began to study Protestant theology in Bonn and later became a pastor in the Rhineland.

Klaus von Woyski began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in 1947. After a year, von Woyski broke off his apprenticeship and began studying art together with his brother Jürgen at the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle (Saale) . After basic studies with Joachim Heuer , he was accepted into Charles Crodel 's painting class . His brother Jürgen went to Gustav Weidanz's sculpture class . After Charles Crodel accepted the call to Munich in 1951, Kurt Bunge became his teacher. In addition to his own artistic work, Klaus von Woyski also dealt intensively with painting techniques by the old masters and painting and plastic restoration. After graduating in 1956, he was employed as a restorer at the Moritzburg State Gallery in Halle. Numerous exhibition participations followed, but also active membership in Alfons Zschockelt's jazz band, with which he was involved in recordings as a washboard player in 1957.

In 1960, Klaus von Woyski received a teaching position on painting techniques at the Burg Giebichenstein art school, but on August 19, 1960, he and his young family fled to West Germany via West Berlin. He married in 1955 and his daughter Franziska was born in 1956. In West Germany he was given the opportunity to work for his previously fled teacher Kurt Bunge on restoration work, including at the Wiesbaden City Palace , in Oldenburg , at the Pheasant Castle in Karlsruhe and in the work of the sculptor Ludwig Münstermann .

Von Woyski joined the Association of Visual Artists Kassel and during this time turned to non-representational painting, numerous exhibition participations followed. In 1966 von Woyski got a job as a restorer at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel .

In 1970 he took over the newly created position of restorer for the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department . Until his retirement in 1997, Von Woyski was responsible for the restoration of all German excavations in Greece on Samos , in Olympia , in Athens- Kerameikos and in Tyrins . Helmut Kyrieleis from the German Archaeological Institute said of Klaus von Woyski that he had done valuable construction work for years, because in addition to his restoration work at the excavation sites, he set up restoration workshops.

Since the entire family moved to Greece in 1970, the new landscape impressions and the Greek light have transformed Klaus von Woyskis' painting style back into realistic. He painted the Greek landscape in its harsh beauty without anecdotes. He preferred the technique of layer painting on chalk ground.

After his retirement, von Woyski returned to Germany after 27 years. He lived in Hanau until 2015 and was still active as a painter. In addition, he repeatedly took on restoration work in Greece. His daughter Franziska von Woyski also became a painter. From 2015 von Woyski lived in Berlin.

Exhibitions

(Solo exhibitions / selection)

  • 1973 Galerie Kühl, Hanover
  • 1980 Gallery in the courtyard, Gifhorn
  • 1981 Gallery Stula, Hanover
  • 1991 Goethe Institute , Athens
  • 1999 Art Association "Talstrasse", Halle
  • 1999 Museum for Arts and Crafts Hamburg
  • 2000 Galerie Flierl, Berlin
  • 2006 Hohentübingen Castle Museum
  • 2006 Eurasia Gallery, Brussels
  • 2010 Gallery Dr. Stelzer and Zaglmaier, Halle (Saale); with his daughter Franziska von Woyski

Publications

literature

  • Woyski, Klaus von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 171 .
  • Werner Schmidt (Ed.): Expatriated. Artists from the GDR and the Soviet sector of Berlin, 1949–1989. Exhibition Albertinum Dresden, from October 7th to December 12th 1990; Kleine Deichtorhalle Hamburg, from January 10th to March 1st 1991 . Argon, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87024-160-8
  • Eva Wipplinger: New acquisitions after 1945. Moritzburg State Gallery, Halle (Saale)
  • Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Stula, Hanover 1981
  • Catalog for the exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Athens, 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the person of Franziska von Woyski . Franziska von Woyski's website, accessed October 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ June 3 - July 11, 1999: Search for traces V: Klaus von Woyski - An artist from Halle in Greece . kunstverein-talstrasse.de, accessed on October 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Woyski, Klaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2017
Place of death Berlin