Werner Froemel

Werner Froemel (* 1927 in Nysa ; † July 5, 2009 in Bayreuth ) was a German painter and sculptor .

life and work

Werner Froemel made the visual arts his life at the age of 50. Before that, the trained botanist was successful as a landscape architect and horticultural entrepreneur. As such, he designed numerous parks and squares in the region. In 1978 Froemel first appeared in public with a solo exhibition. From then on he was an integral part of Bayreuth's art life. The sculptures for the clinics in Bayreuth and Kulmbach were awarded prizes. The Friedrich Baur Foundation in Altenkunstadt purchased a sculpture. As an artist in residence, Froemel took part in scholarships at the Künstlerhaus Salzburg and at the Villa Romana in Florence. He was involved in the Bayreuth Free Group, ordered numerous exhibitions and experimented with radio and book projects. In 2008 a collection of texts “Elbnacht” was published.

Froemel's world of images is figuratively realistic and includes a broad thematic spectrum, from portraits and landscapes to monumental quotations from Christian iconography. In addition to oil and acrylic paintings, Froemel designed an extensive graphic oeuvre. An abundance of pencil drawings and studies and numerous prints often deal with cyclical motif variations. Werner Froemel's graphic estate was acquired by the Upper Franconian Foundation in 2011 . It is processed and stored in the Bayreuth Art Museum.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1978: Time consumer , Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Society
• 1983: Werner Froemel: hand drawings, etchings and acrylic paintings , Galerie am Schillerplatz, Bamberg
• 2005: Werner Froemel - Pictures and Graphics Gallery Bayer, in the Heilbronn Art Forum
• 2007: Werner Froemel - oil paintings , Galerie Doebele, Berlin

Exhibition participation

• 1978: Large art exhibition , Haus der Kunst , Munich
• 2000: Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg (recognition award)
• 2010: The Felix and Sybille Böcker Collection , Bayreuth Art Museum

Awards

• 2008: Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth

Literary works

• Elbe night . Narrative. Semmelroch Verlag, Kulmbach, 2009, 28 pages, ISBN 978-3-941219-03-8
• Elbe night . Stories. Semmelroch Verlag, Kulmbach, 2008, 140 pages, ISBN 978-3-941219-00-7
• Elbe night . Narrative. Translated from German into Russian by Svetlana Wöss-Jaremko and Marina Baag, Semmelroch Verlag, Kulmbach, 2009, 28 pages, ISBN 978-3-941219-02-1

Exhibition catalogs

• Joachim Burmeister, Rudolf Bayer: Werner Froemel , published by the Bayer Gallery, Bietigheim-Bissingen, 2005, 96 pages
• Fritz H. Oerter: Werner Froemel. Time consumer , published by the Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, 1978, 11 pages

Web links

• Biography, work examples, reading samples and reviews on the Semmelroch publishing house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.csu-fraktion-bayreuth.de/dokumente/Kulturpreis2008.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Winner of the Abitur in Kulmbach, Bayrische Rundschau, Bayrische Rundschau, p. 22, October 11, 2008
3. ↑ Article Wiesentbote
4. ↑ Werner Froemel, Zeitverbrauch: Exhibition of the Albrecht Dürer Society, Pilatushaus Nuremberg, 2.-23. July 1978
5. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/ruckblick-1.671758
6. ↑ Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.