Volker Stelzmann

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Volker Stelzmann (born November 5, 1940 in Dresden ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Volker Stelzmann was born as the third child of the Reichsbahn official Kurt Stelzmann and his wife Charlotte Ruth, b. Lambrecht, born. His father died in the war in 1944. Since 1948 he grew up in Leipzig, where he did an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic from 1957 to 1960 after completing secondary school and worked in this profession until 1963. At the same time he attended an evening painting school at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art (HGB) with Walter Münze. From 1963 he studied at the HGB in the specialist class of Gerhard Kurt Müller and graduated in 1968 with a diploma . He completed his basic studies with Fritz Fröhlich , Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume . During his studies, he dealt with essays by Michel de Montaigne . In 1966 he had his first personal exhibition in Ahrenshoop together with Ulrich Hachulla and has since been involved in important exhibitions in the GDR and abroad.

From 1968 to 1973 he worked as a freelance artist and sought to deal with works by Pontormo , Rosso Fiorentino , Otto Dix and the New Objectivity . After having made several study trips to the Soviet Union in 1966 , he also visited Bulgaria, Cuba and India during this time. From 1970 to 1986 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , from 1978 to 1986 chairman of its central section management. In the period from 1973 to 1974 he did an aspirantur at the HGB and in 1979 was appointed lecturer and department head of the basic course. In 1982 he got a professorship at the HGB. He continued teaching until 1986.

That year he did not return to the GDR from a trip on the occasion of his exhibitions in Oberhausen and West Berlin. From 1987 to 1988 he was visiting professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and in 1988 he was appointed professor of painting at the Hochschule (later University) of the Arts in Berlin . In protest against this, the painter Georg Baselitz resigned his teaching activities at the university for a long time, since he saw Stelzmann as a "state artist loyal to the line". Stelzmann's teaching ended in 2006.

Volker Stelzmann lives and works in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He has been with Henriette Stelzmann, b. Arndt, married. The artist is represented by DIE GALERIE in Frankfurt am Main and Galerie Poll in Berlin.

Exhibitions

1985 in Cologne: (from left to right) Volker Stelzmann, Waldemar Otto , Timm Gierig and Eberhard Fiebig

Solo exhibitions

  • 1984: Cultural Center of the GDR , Paris
  • 1985/1986: Municipal Gallery, Oberhausen
  • 1986: State Art Gallery , West Berlin
  • 1988: BASF, Ludwigshafen; Art Station St. Peter , Cologne ; Municipal Gallery, Albstadt-Ebingen ; Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1989: Volker Stelzmann , AW Faber-Castell, Stein; Volker Stelzmann , Ludgerikirche, north; Volker Stelzmann , Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg, Stuttgart
  • 1990: Art Association, Bretten
  • 1991: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1992: Kroch House, Leipzig; Volker Stelzmann , Exhibition Center of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig; Volker Stelzmann , Saale Gallery, Saalfeld; Volker Stelzmann , Sankt Martin Church, Leutkirch
  • 1993: Lafayette Parke Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1994: Volker Stelzmann , Kulturspeicher, Oldenburg ; Volker Stelzmann , Art Association Gütersloh; Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1995: Municipal Gallery, Wesseling
  • 1996: Volker Stelzmann , Kunsthof Voigtei, Halberstadt
  • 1997: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1999: Experimental arrangements, figure pictures 1990–1998, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • 2000: Volker Stelzmann , State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig; Volker Stelzmann , Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg; Elevator , Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 2001/2002: Volker Stelzmann , Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil , Portugal
  • 2002: Volker Stelzmann. Paintings, drawings ; City Collections Freital ; Pellegrinaggio , 12 figure pictures, (April 12th - June 23rd), St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin in the series The other altarpiece in the St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin: Deposizione IV (March 26th - March 30th), "Resurrezione" (March 31 - May 12), "The Pentecost picture" (May 14 - June 23)
  • 2003: Volker Stelzmann , Kunstverein Südsauerland, Olpe; Volker Stelzmann , DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2004: Positions - Depositions , Kunstverein Coburg eV; Conspiracy - Painting , Poll Gallery , Berlin
  • 2006: Volker Stelzmann. Drawings , Folkwang Museum, Essen ; Volker Stelzmann. Test arrangements II, Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 2007: Volker Stelzmann. Experimental arrangements, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt am Main; Experimental arrangements II in: Art Association Marburg , Städtische Galerie Speyer , Galleria ModenArte, Modena , Italy
  • 2008: Volker Stelzmann. Experimental Arrangements , Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery, Houston , Texas , USA Volker Stelzmann. Paintings and Drawings , Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almacil, Portugal
  • 2009: Volker Stelzmann. Conspiracies , Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche Aschaffenburg
  • 2010: Volker Stelzmann. Parallels , Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten
  • 2011: Volker Stelzmann. Stations , DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt am Main; Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 2014: Twenty-two paintings and The Revelation , Wiligrad Art Association, Wiligrad Castle, Lüpstorf; Volker Stelzmann , Kunstverein Region Dahlenburg, Dahlenburg
  • 2015: VS Leipzig - Berlin , Gallery Poll, Berlin; Panoptikum, Osthaus Museum Hagen; Panoptikum, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2017: The Meeting - New Pictures , Gallery Poll, Berlin; Gallery Association City of Leonberg

Participation in exhibitions

Works (selection)

1982: Portrait of Peter Gosse

Works in public collections

Prices

literature

  • Renate Hartleb : Volker Stelzmann. Henschel, Berlin 1976.
  • Johann-Karl Schmidt , Volker Stelzmann, in: Volker Stelzmann - stations, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-925782-69-5 .
  • Volker Stelzmann - Conspiracies. Catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name, which was specially designed by Volker Stelzmann for the secular sacred space of the Jesuit Church Art Hall. Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Hachmanneditions, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-939429-71-5 .
  • Volker Stelzmann - test arrangements. Monograph with texts by Eduard Beaucamp, Dieter Hoffmann and Maurizio Vanni. POLLeditions, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-925782-54-1 . (German, English, Italian)
  • Eduard Beaucamp , Dieter Hoffmann, Maurizio Vanni: Volker Stelzmann. Infopress, 2006, ISBN 978-3-925782-54-1 .
  • Adolf Dresen, Günter Metken, Andreas Stolzenburg, Herwig Guratzsch: Volker Stelzmann - test arrangements: figure pictures 1990–98. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 978-3-86060-006-1 .
  • Adolf Smitmans, Volker Stelzmann, Anne Peters, Heinz Liesbrock: Volker Stelzmann: drawings and prints. Städtische Galerie Albstadt 1988, ISBN 978-3-923644-22-3 .
  • Anke Scharnhorst:  Stelzmann, Volker . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist | Gallery Poll. Accessed May 1, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Stelzmann, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden