Walter Herzger

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Walter Herzger (* 1901 or 1903 in Leipzig ; † June 24, 1985 in Gaienhofen ) was a German graphic artist and painter.

Between 1921 and 1924 he attended the Bauhaus in Weimar to train as a graphic artist and painter; His teachers were Johannes Itten , Wassili Kandinski , Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer . 1924–1926 he worked as a freelance artist in Dresden . 1926–1930 he stayed in Paris and southern France , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . Through the mediation of Gerhard Marcks , he became a master student of Charles Crodel at the art school Burg Giebichenstein in Halle in 1930 and at the same time workshop manager of the graphic workshop directed by Charles Crodel. In 1933 he was released. Until 1939 he stayed in Palinuro near Naples . In 1940 he married the painter Gertraud Herzger von Harlessem ; in the same year he was called up for military service. In 1946 Herzger returned from captivity to his wife Gertraud, who meanwhile lived in Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. From 1958 to 1967 he held a professorship for drawing at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . After his retirement he worked as a freelancer again at Lake Constance .

Honors

  • 1955: Hans Thoma Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1955: Honorary member of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association
  • 1981: Art Prize from the Friends of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association

literature

  • Erika Roediger-Diruf: Painting is dead, long live painting: 150 years of art school in Karlsruhe ... . Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe 1997.
  • Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present. Hatje, Stuttgart, 1982.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Walter Herzger headed the lithographic printing , Rudolf Baschant the gravure printing .
personal data
SURNAME Herzger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1901 or 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1985
Place of death Gaienhofen