Otto Winkler

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Otto Winkler (born August 6, 1885 in Dresden ; † April 17, 1960 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Growing up in Dresden, Winkler worked from 1900 to 1910 as a cabin boy and later a seaman in the merchant fleet and in deep-sea fishing. During this time he attended the navigation school in Hamburg and passed the exam as a helmsman . From 1911 to 1912 he studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts with Karl Groß . From 1912 to 1914 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a student with Robert Diez and Selmar Werner . During the First World War he was called up as a marine. He then continued his studies from 1918 to 1923 at the Dresden Art Academy and was a student of Karl Albiker and Robert Diez. From 1923 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden. From 1933 to 1945 he worked in the resistance against National Socialism and was punished several times with imprisonment and forced labor . Nevertheless, he exhibited at the great Dresden art exhibitions in 1934 and 1943 . In 1945, as a result of the air raids on Dresden , he lost his studio at Kamelienstraße 1 and thus his complete artistic work as well as his apartment at Elsasser Straße 7, both in Johannstadt . From 1949 he was appointed lecturer for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Winkler was a talented, realistic and detailed portrait sculptor, he also created small sculptures. He died at the age of 75 in the Loschwitz district of Dresden and was buried in the local cemetery . The painter Wilhelm Rudolph created a portrait by the sculptor Otto Winkler for the Dresden State Art Collections in 1958 ; it is part of the New Masters Gallery (Gal.-No. 3859).

Works (selection)

  • 1948: Bronze medallion Otto Winkler , data record 80422191
  • 1949: 2nd art exhibition of the GDR , bronze bust head
  • 1950: Karl Marx sculpture in Dresden- Löbtau , Kesselsdorfer Strasse 90, House of Peace
  • 1954: Stalin monument in Freiberg
  • 1955: Stalin monument in Hettstedt
  • 1958: Bronze bust of a woman's head , 4th German Art Exhibition 1958, Dresden
  • 1959: bronze bust portrait of Ms. L. , private collection
  • 1960: bust of Lenin (last work)

literature

  • Saxon Latest News newspaper , volume 4/198 from August 26, 1955.
  • Catalog Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1943, painting plastic graphics from October 16 to December 31, in the Saxon Art Association Brühlsche Terrasse .
  • Artist on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, p. 492.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts .
  2. ^ Addresses according to the address book of the city of Dresden from 1942, p. 967.
  3. ↑ Portrait of the sculptor Otto Winkler in the picture atlas Art in the GDR
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkler, Oskar Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1960
Place of death Dresden