Rudolf Wewerka

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Memorial to the Victims of Fascism in Gardelegen (1950)

Rudolf Wewerka (born August 27, 1889 in Albrechtsdorf ; † June 28, 1954 in Magdeburg ) was a German sculptor and artist .

Life

Rudolf Wewerka is the son of the painter and ceramicist Joseph Wewerka. In 1901 the family emigrated to Höhr-Grenzhausen . There Rudolf Wewerka studied with Ernst Barlach at the technical college for ceramics. Around 1907 he worked in a ceramics company in Bonn and later switched to the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . From 1914 he studied sculpture at the State University of Applied Arts in Berlin. After participating in the First World War as a soldier , Wewerka lived in Magdeburg from 1918 and was one of the founders of the late Expressionist artists' association Die Kugel . There he made friends with Bruno Taut , Karl Krayl and Bruno Beye . In 1933 Wewerka was banned from working and moved to the Lüneburg Heath , where he worked with the garden architect Heinrich Nachtweh, ​​among others. After 1945 he created murals, sculptures and monuments. Are u. a. the memorial for the victims of fascism in Gardelegen (1950) and the Karl Marx memorial in Wernigerode from 1953.

He is the father of the German artist Stefan Wewerka and the stepfather of the politician Werner Steffens .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953: Third German Art Exhibition, Dresden
  • 1959: New Life - New Art. Exhibition by the VBK, Magdeburg district, on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the GDR, Magdeburg
  • 2001: Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
  • 2013: Forum for Design, Magdeburg

literature

  • Third German Art Exhibition , cat.Dresden 1953, p. 25
  • New life - new art. Exhibition by the VBK, Magdeburg district, on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the GDR , Magdeburg 1959
  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , Volume 5, Keil Verlag, Berlin 1961, p. 121
  • Matthias Puhle (ed.): Die Kugel - an artists' association of the 20s. Late Expressionist Art in Magdeburg , cat. Magdeburg 1993, pp. 27, 77
  • Ursel Berger: Catalog of the exhibition in the Berlin Kolbe Museum: Wewerka - tradition of a family of artists . Alexander Verlag , Berlin 2001
  • Uwe Jens Gellner: Wewerka, Rudolf. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 798.

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personal data
SURNAME Wewerka, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Albrechtsdorf , Gablonz District, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1954
Place of death Magdeburg