Walter Demgen

Walter Demgen (born April 4, 1925 in Dortmund ; † December 8, 2010 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist from the world of work.

Life

During his training as a utility applicant, Demgen took part in evening courses at the Dortmund art and trade school. After the Second World War he attended Hans Tombrock's "School for Fine and Applied Arts Dortmund". From 1949 Demgen worked as a steel worker in order to finance his artistic activity, first at the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein and then at the Dortmund Hoesch Group at the Phoenix plant in Hörde. Since leaving the company in 1981 he has devoted himself exclusively to his art, since 1984 also within the framework of the Hoesch painter group ZWAR, which he founded with other Hoeschians. He lived in the Dortmund suburb of Sölde until his death .

In July 2019 a street was dedicated to Demgen , the Walter-Demgen-Weg in Dortmund-Sölde.

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Demgen's preferred techniques were woodcuts and etching , and he also created drawings and watercolors. His topics were the working and living environment of the Ruhr area , blast furnaces and rolling mills as well as the small-town half-timbered architecture of the old town of Hörde, Sölde, Aplerbeck and Berghofen.

Exhibitions

2005 - Hoesch Museum Dortmund, special exhibition woodcuts by Walter Demgen, with accompanying workshop discussion
2005 - Dortmund City and State Library , etchings
2007 - Bürgersaal Dortmund, group exhibition with pictures by the Hörder artists Wilhelm Kronfeld and Lutz Dittberner
2008 - Volksbank Dortmund-Hörde, "600 years of woodcuts", participation with own woodcuts in the exhibition of the Kulturstiftung Schlanke Mathilde from holdings of the Manfred Wolnin collection
2009 - Hoesch Museum Dortmund, special exhibition for the 25th anniversary of the Hoesch painter group ZWAR

literature

Schmidt, Ralf D. (Ed.): Walter Demgen . Agency Schöne Markt, Lauterbach 2010.

Web links

Official website of the artist , with a video documentation "Walter Demgen - a retrospective" (2009)
Workshop discussion with Walter Demgen in the Hoesch Museum , Municipal Press Service Dortmund, November 3, 2005
Julia Gaß, Three Artists, Three Different Positions , Ruhr Nachrichten November 30, 2007
Julia Gaß, Hörde is the home of printmaking masterpieces , Ruhr Nachrichten, 16 September 2008
25 years of the Hoesch painter group ZWAR: Special exhibition in the Hoesch Museum , Municipal Press Service, August 13, 2009

Individual evidence

↑ Jörg Bauerfeld: The street in Sölde is named after the well-known "world of work painter": legend sign attached. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. RN, accessed July 10, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Demgen, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist from the world of work
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 2010
Place of death	Dortmund

[1] Jörg Bauerfeld: The street in Sölde is named after the well-known "world of work painter": legend sign attached. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. RN, accessed July 10, 2019 .