Olaf Wegewitz

Olaf Wegewitz (born October 2, 1949 in Schönebeck (Elbe) ) is a German artist who, in addition to working as a draftsman and painter, primarily deals with the relationship between human culture and nature in his art projects.

Life

Wegewitz completed an apprenticeship as a tractor fitter from 1966. He practiced the profession until 1971. Then he worked as a poster sticker in Leipzig until 1975 . He dealt autodidactically with the ideas of the Bauhaus . In 1974/75 he did material studies with Hans Schulze at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig and then from 1975 worked as a freelance graphic artist and painter. In 1984 Olaf Wegewitz was one of the initiators of the 1st Leipzig Autumn Salon , a semi-legal exhibition in the exhibition center on Leipziger Markt. It was not banned by the cultural officials only because they feared protest actions when the exhibition was closed.

Wegewitz has lived and worked in Huy-Neinstedt since 1983 .

From 1980 there was joint work with Frieder Heinze . Wegewitz dealt with books, paper production and non-object-related work. He also took on some restoration jobs . In 1990 he received a scholarship from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . He began work that dealt with the human perception of nature and dealt with the sociology of nature and also fruit growing and beekeeping . In 1996/97 he made three altarpieces for the Halberstadt Johanniskirche . In 1999 Olaf Wegewitz was awarded the Saxony-Anhalt Art Prize.

Olaf Wegewitz has crossed Germany on foot twice in recent years, along the 11th degree of longitude between Fehmarn and the Zugspitze in 2009 and along the 51st degree of latitude between Geilenkirchen and Görlitz in 2012. Both hikes resulted in artistic works.

Works (selection)

Artistic work

• Sculpture greenhouse in the Magdeburg sculpture park

Book publications

• Unaulutu. Little stones in the sand , together with Frieder Heinze . Leipzig (Reclam) 1985; Edition Brusberg West Berlin 1986
• The linguist Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807-1874). A reflection (illustrated book) . Self-published by Lindenau - Museum Altenburg 1998
• Silent silence , together with m. Xiao Kaiyu, translated by Raffael Keller. Huy-Neinstedt and Munich (Wortraum-Edition) 2001. ISBN 978-3-936-17400-7
• Add. m. Annegret Laabs, Uwe Gellner (ed.): Olaf Wegewitz: I show . Magdeburg (City of Magdeburg Museums) 2003. ISBN 978-3-930-03066-8
• Seal suit: natural rights , together with m. Hanfried Blume et al. Huy-Neinstedt and Munich (Wortraum-Edition) 2004. ISBN 978-3-936-17405-2
• Artistic contribution in: Aufbruch: Book Art between Parchment and Plexiglas , ed. v. New Saxon Gallery. Chemnitz (Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte) 2008. ISBN 978-3-937-17614-7
• ... all his Hold awareness of the field Blume: Word Space Nature V . Huy-Neinstedt and Munich (Wortraum-Edition) 2010. ISBN 978-3-936-17411-3

further reading

• Doris Liebermann:  Wegewitz, Olaf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Jörg Sperling u. Andreas Hüneke: Olaf Wegewitz - Book work: With a catalog raisonné of artist books . Cottbus (Brandenburgische Kulturstiftung) 1994. ISBN 978-3-928-69647-0
• Hendrikje Hüneke: Unaulutu: Testimonies of indigenous peoples as artistic inspiration in the GDR . Marburg ( Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag ) 2016. ISBN 978-3-828-83645-7
• Andreas Hornemann: From so far to here . Magdeburg (QuadratArtVerlag) 2009. ISBN 978-3-935971-53-9
• Annegret Laabs, Uwe Gellner: Olaf Wegewitz - straight on foot on the 11th degree of longitude through Germany . Berlin (Jovis Verlag) 2014. ISBN 978-3-86859-314-3

See also

• Literature by and about Olaf Wegewitz in the catalog of the German National Library [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The information can be found in the biography on the website of the Galerie am Sachsenplatz in Leipzig .
2. ^ Website of the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture Saxony-Anhalt
3. ^ Announcement of the exhibition at the Neue Sächsische Galerie in Chemnitz