Walter Arnold (artist)

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Walter Arnold (1953)

Walter Arnold (born August 27, 1909 in Leipzig , † July 11, 1979 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Life

Walter Arnold's grave in Loschwitz cemetery (2009)

Walter Arnold was the son of a stone mason from Leipzig. He trained as a wood and stone sculptor from 1924 to 1928 . Until 1932 Arnold studied under Alfred Thiele at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts, the shaping of sculptures and ceramics . He was an assistant at Thiele until 1933, then a freelance artist until 1940. During this time he secured his income primarily through commissioned work for tomb companies or facade renovations. After that he was a soldier of the Wehrmacht and came in second world war in a prisoner of war in a camp in Bad Kreuznach .

In 1946 he took up a position as a teacher at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art and joined the SED . In 1949 he accepted the call to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where he worked as a professor until 1970. Then he was again a professor at the College of Graphics and Book Art and, from his retirement in 1974, he supervised a master class at the College of Fine Arts.

Arnold had been a member of the German Academy of the Arts since 1952 . From 1954 to 1958 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED. From 1958 to 1961 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1958 to 1964 he succeeded Otto Nagel as chairman of the Association of Visual Artists .

Walter Arnold died in Dresden in 1979, his grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery . The grave sculpture There is no other pain , Arnold himself created.

Works

Bronze sculptures

Memorial for the victims of fascism in Leipzig
Inge on the Friendship Island in Potsdam (2007)

Wooden sculptures

  • The horror of 1934
  • The suffering of 1946: worked from a split plank, reminiscent of his imprisonment
  • Vietnam indicts , 1966
  • Forward and not forget - Solidarity , 1967
  • Venceremos , 1974
  • Anette
  • There is no other suffering

Portrait busts and statuettes

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , 1947 in the Leipzig music district
  • Carl Maria von Weber , 1952
  • Ernst Thälmann , 1956
  • Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg , 1957
  • Otto Buchwitz , 1962
  • Theodor Neubauer , around 1965 (today on the campus of the University of Erfurt )

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  • Inge , 1949
  • Bathers , 1961
  • Aphrodite , 1971

Exhibitions and competitions

  • Participation in the exhibition "Against the War" in Majdanek with the sculpture Beaten (2nd prize)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Walter Arnold (artist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Peter H. Feist: Grace and Appeal ; Article on the 100th birthday of Walter Arnold in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland on August 27, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Kunstraum talk on Walter Arnold on November 15, 2017 , accessed on January 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon , online
  4. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon , online
  5. ^ Object in the Deutsche Fotothek
  6. ↑ Kathleen Kröger: Bronze bust on the Erfurt university campus , article on thueringer-allgemeine.de from May 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1979
Place of death Dresden