Walter Andreas Kirchner

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Walter Andreas Kirchner (* 1941 in Periam ( German  Perjamosch ), Kingdom of Romania ) is a German sculptor , painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Walter Andreas Kirchner is the son of a master shoemaker and Katharina Kirchner born. Stefan, daughter of Michael Stefan and Rosina Vogel from Semlak . His grandfather was a violin and instrument maker.

In his youth, Walter Andreas Kirchner wrote poetry and actually wanted to be a writer. After graduating from the Nikolaus Lenau Lyceum in Timișoara ( German  Temeswar ), he wanted to study philology . He was also active as a hobby musician. After discovering his talent for the fine arts, he trained as a sculptor between 1964 and 1967 at the Timișoara School of Art . Here he also familiarized himself with painting , free and technical drawing and calligraphy , took part in photography and film courses and learned the techniques of printmaking and glass painting .

From 1967 he worked as an art teacher in the pioneer house in Cisnădie in Transylvania , where he was appointed deputy director. The Romanian authorities largely denied him a scholarship with Fritz Wotruba in Vienna and the opportunity to exhibit abroad. After seven years of art education in Cisnădie, he was dismissed because he wanted to move to Germany with his family. In the six years that followed, while waiting for an exit permit, he worked as a designer in an industrial company in Timișoara.

In 1981 Walter Andreas Kirchner moved to Pforzheim . Since 1982 he has been a member of the professional association of visual artists and since 1985 a member of the Esslingen Artists' Guild . Kirchner's works - sculpture, painting and graphics - have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1967. In Romania the exhibitions took place in Bucharest , Hermannstadt , Kronstadt , Arad , Klausenburg and Jassy . In Germany, his work was in Dusseldorf , Heilbronn , Pforzheim, Baden-Baden , Oberwinter -Bonn, Sindelfingen , Traben-Trarbach , Musberg -Stuttgart, Weilburg , Bad Homburg , Wiesbaden , Stuttgart , Dätzingen , Landshut , Mr. Berg , Bad Nauheim , Karlsruhe , Mannheim and Nuremberg . His exhibitions abroad took place in Riga, Jeselo Lido, Bordeaux-Talence, Paris and Lugano.

In 1982 he was a prizewinner at the International Triennial for Sculpture in Bordeaux-Talence, France. In 1985 he received the second prize at the Salon des Nations at the Center International d'Art Contemporain , Paris, France.

Numerous public and private purchases in Germany (including the GDR), Austria, Romania, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, France, Canada, USA, Lanzarote, Spain and Japan attest to the artist's success. Kirchner's public works can be seen in Cisnădie, Timișoara and Landshut.

Walter Andreas Kirchner also made a name for himself as a book illustrator, e.g. B. in the volumes fairy tales, sagas, Schwänke , children's songs, nursery rhymes , proverbs , in focus , paving stones .

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personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Walter Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Periam , Kingdom of Romania