Rolf Winkler (sculptor)

Rolf Winkler (born December 19, 1930 in Grünhain ; † October 19, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .

biography

Rolf Winkler grew up in Schwarzenberg and attended school there. After graduating from school, he moved to Dresden and learned the profession of stone sculptor at the Zwingerbauhütte from 1949–1951 . In 1952 he attended Etha Richter's drawing classes at the Art Academy's evening school . The following year he moved to Berlin and worked as a freelancer. He worked in Waldemar Grzimek's atelier and also acquired additional skills autodidactically. From 1965 to 1969 Winkler studied sculpture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Heinrich Drake and Karl-Heinz Schamal . He received a teaching post for sculpture in evening classes at this facility and at the same time continued to work in Drake and Schamal's studios until 1970. Working at the Weißenseer Kunsthochschule brought him to work with printing techniques from 1980. As a sculptor, he received commissions for public spaces. In 1991 he was appointed to the Strodehne Summer Academy . He worked on the advisory board of the sculpture workshops. Study trips took him to the Canary Islands in 1993, 1995 and 1996 and a VBK study trip to Central Asia. The collaboration with painter friends such as Hanfried Schulz and Sieghard Pohl rounded off his work and style.

Rolf Winkler died in 2001 in Berlin-Niederschönhausen and found his final resting place in the Pankow IV cemetery .

Works (selection)

Young couple (1976)

Seat fountain with fountain head (1983)

Sitting (1985)

His works included sculptures, small sculptures, reliefs , prints, acrylic paintings , nudes , medals and much more. The main materials used were stone, bronze and a mix of materials.

1970: Draft for a memorial for Käthe Kollwitz

1973: female torso

1980: Hoher Brunnen
A six meter high decorative fountain in the area of the social center between Storkower Strasse and Franz-Jacob-Strasse. Around 1994 the fountain was demolished, for which the investors built the Storkower Arch , a shopping, residential and business center, on the entire site .

1983: Sitzbrunnen
A round fountain area with a diameter of around ten meters is located at the crossroads of Marchwitzastraße / Biesdorfer Promenade in the southern tip of the Berlin-Marzahn district . The fountain system made of stainless steel and clinker consists of several stepped basins that invite you to linger on their edges.

1983: Crouching

1986–1990: Memorial for the Soviet soldiers
The stone and bronze sculpture was approved by the Berlin City Council in 1986 at a meeting of the Advisory Board for Urban Design . The sculpture was intended for the Marzahn public park . In 1988 the cast model was internally approved and Winkler had it processed until 1990. The change in the political understanding of the new Berlin city councils after the fall of the Wall led to the decision not to be carried out. The whereabouts of the sculpture are unknown.

1989: untitled (pair)

Selected exhibitions and participations

1961: Young artists , Academy of the Arts , Berlin
1963: Exhibition at the Buch Clinic (today's Helios Clinic Berlin-Buch )
1965: Berlin today
1971: Small sculptures at the IGA , Erfurt
1971: Sculpture and flowers in Treptower Park , Berlin
1975: The torso in the sculpture of the GDR , National Gallery Berlin
1977/78: VIII. Art Exhibition of the GDR in Dresden
1978: GDR sculpture in Bucharest and Cluj
1980: Exhibition Berlin in Prague
1981: IX. Art exhibition of the GDR, Dresden
1984: Kopf , gallery on the Weidendammer Bridge , Berlin
1986: Sculpture exhibition in the Franciscan monastery church in Berlin
1987–88: X art exhibition in Dresden
1988: Kleine Galerie Pankow , Berlin (solo exhibition)
1989: Sculptures in Treptower Park, Berlin
1990: Berlin art exhibition VBK object art
1992: Traces of evil in the village church in Weißensee
1993: Sculptures in the Bürgerpark Pankow (joint work with Henry Wegener )
1993: Selection of works in the research and memorial site Normannenstrasse
2011: Sculptures and graphics by Rolf Winkler in the Galerie + Kulturladen Radermann in Schwarzenberg on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death.

Web links

Commons : Rolf Winkler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Graphics and sculptures

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Rolf Winkler at galerie-rademann.de , accessed on June 2, 2013
↑ Small overview of Winkler works on a private homepage
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rolf Winkler in the artist database , accessed on June 2, 2013
^ Sylvia Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin; Lichtenberg ; Catalog 1993, Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein eV, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 ; Page 39/40
↑ ^a ^b Art in the large housing estate. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf. A documentation. Commission for Art in Public Space ( Thorsten Goldberg , Ellena Olsen, Martin Schönfeld, Andreas Sommerer), eds. from the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, around 2005. ISBN 978-3-00-026730-7 ; Page 71 ( Sitzbrunnen ) and Page 153 ( Soviet soldiers )

personal data
SURNAME	Winkler, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grünhain
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 2001
Place of death	Berlin

[Rademann-1] Rolf Winkler at galerie-rademann.de , accessed on June 2, 2013

[2] Small overview of Winkler works on a private homepage

[KDB-3] Rolf Winkler in the artist database , accessed on June 2, 2013

[4] Sylvia Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin; Lichtenberg ; Catalog 1993, Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein eV, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 ; Page 39/40

[Kunst_GS-5] Art in the large housing estate. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf. A documentation. Commission for Art in Public Space ( Thorsten Goldberg , Ellena Olsen, Martin Schönfeld, Andreas Sommerer), eds. from the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, around 2005. ISBN 978-3-00-026730-7 ; Page 71 ( Sitzbrunnen ) and Page 153 ( Soviet soldiers )