Walter Howard

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First German Marx-Engels monument 1957 in Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt)

Walter Howard (born November 4, 1910 in Jena ; † May 9, 2005 in Moritzburg-Friedewald ) was a German sculptor .

biography

As a trained typesetter , Howard was persecuted during the Nazi era because of his communist and anti-fascist attitudes and sent to the Brandenburg prison for two years .

From 1946 to 1951 Howard studied sculpture at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee under Heinrich Drake , Fritz Koelle and Bernhard Heiliger, among others .

After graduating from 1951 to 1953, he was a master student at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Gustav Seitz and Fritz Cremer .

After two years of freelance work, Howard worked from 1955 to 1960 as an assistant and later as a lecturer at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee, where he developed a long-term friendship with the sculptor Theo Balden, among others .

In 1961, Howard moved to Radebeul to work as a lecturer for building sculpture at the Technical University of Dresden . It was here that he was appointed professor in 1963 . Howard worked at the TU until his retirement in 1969. From 1970, Howard continued to work as a sculptor, relieved of teaching obligations. In 1992 Howard moved from Radebeul to Dedeleben in the Harz Mountains, but returned to Saxony a short time later.

In 2005 Howard died in the Moritzburg district of Friedewald .

Exhibitions

  • 1962 Pavilion of Art - Berlin

Works

  • "Lilienthal", monument in Anklam, 1955
  • "Marx-Engels Monument" in Chemnitz, unveiling on June 22, 1957
  • “Pioneer with Cloth”, bronze sculpture, 1959
  • "Polier", plastic, 1960
  • “Young Worker”, concrete-plastic, 1962, since 1988 on the premises of the Planeta printing machine plant in Radebeul
  • " Franz Mehring - Publicist of His Time", five bronze reliefs in the foyer of the Haus der Presse in Dresden, 1967
  • “Die Sterngucker”, 1971, bronze 140 cm, created for the observatory in Radebeul , one cast has also been in Dresden- Prohlis since 1973, and another in Rostock
  • The stargazers

  • ... in Radebeul

  • ... in Dresden-Prohlis

  • ... in the Rostock Zoo

Awards

literature

  • Walter Howard: Exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 75th birthday, December 13, 1985 - January 20, 1986, State Art Trade of the GDR, Neue Dresdner Galerie. Ed .: Office for Fine Arts of the Dresden District Council, Dresden 1985.
  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Brunhilde Köhler: Walter Howard - for his 90th birthday. In: Radebeuler Official Journal: 11/2000.
  • Burkhard Zscheischler: To the sculptor Walter Howard for the 100th In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Hrsg.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . Radebeul November 2010.

Web links

Commons : Walter Howard  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adelheid von Saldern, Alice von Plato, Elfie Rembold, Lu Seegers (eds.): Staged unity: Representations of power in GDR cities. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, p. 152
  2. ^ "Art space downtown - sculpture collection of the Bernau forest settlement" , accessed on December 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Erika Neumann , Ulrich Kurt : Art and Architecture. Building-related art in the GDR . VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1974
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2005
Place of death Moritzburg-Friedewald