Werner Kempf (painter)

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Werner Kempf (born October 1, 1925 in Chemnitz ; † June 3, 1999 in Schneeberg ) was a German painter and dialect speaker .

Live and act

Kempf grew up in Neustädtel , where his father worked as a factory worker. In his hometown, which was incorporated into Schneeberg in 1939 , he attended the Pestalozzi School from 1932 to 1940. Already in school he learned to carve and belonged to a singing and playing crowd. From 1940 he began further education at the municipal business school in Schneeberg, but broke it off for financial reasons and began an apprenticeship as a clerk at the Wilisch brothers in Oberschlema . Due to his small height of 1.44 m, he was spared military service in the Wehrmacht during World War II . After the end of the war he worked as a homeworker in the Greifenstein-Kunsthütte in Thum until 1949 , where he received numerous prizes for the articles he had made. He then went into business for himself as a craftsman and painter and in 1959 was one of the founders of the PGH carvers and turners , which later became known as PGH Schneeberger Volkskunst . In 1978 he graduated from the College of Applied Arts as a designer . He made numerous drawings and watercolors with local motifs from the Ore Mountains .

He made his debut as a dialect speaker in 1949 and initially performed with the Zschorlauer Nachtigallen and the Filzteich-Maad . In addition, in 1962/63 Kempf was one of the initiators of the Erzgebirge ensemble Aue , in which he remained active until the 1990s. He wrote numerous humorous poems and rhyming stories, mostly in the Ore Mountains dialect , which became particularly popular due to his peculiar speaking style.

Honors

In 1961, Kempf received the Karl-Marx-Stadt District Art Prize and in 1974 the GDR Medal of Merit . On the occasion of his 50th birthday, he was awarded the gold medal for local history achievements by the Kulturbund . In 1985 he was made an honorary citizen of Schneeberg. Kempf was an honorary member of the Erzgebirgszweigvereine Markersbach and Schneeberg-Neustädtel.

Publications / settings, exhibitions (selection)

  • Unner Arzgebirg is schie (22 marches, songs and stories)
  • Erzgebirge dialect (25 tracks; 1999)
  • Mei Schneebarg (poems), printer and publisher Mike Rockstroh, Aue 2002
  • In 2009, 174 watercolors by Werner Kempf were exhibited in a special exhibition in the Museum of Mining Folk Art in Schneeberg .

literature

  • Rolf Schubert: Werner Kempf, a people's artist of the Erzgebirge , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 23 (1977), issue 5, p. 235. ISSN  0486-8234
  • National board of the Erzgebirgsverein: A versatile Erzgebirge personality is no longer: Werner Kempf - Schneeberg-Neustädtel , in: Glückauf! Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein 110 (1999), issue 7, p. 150. ISSN  0342-5150
  • Lothar Meyer: The small, big man of the Ore Mountains is no longer in: Glückauf! Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein 110 (1999), Issue 7, pp. 150–151. ISSN  0342-5150

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Appel: You have remained loyal to the wood. Members of the PGH Schneeberger Volkskunst meet for the first time in 17 years . Article in the Freie Presse on October 25, 2010 , accessed on December 29, 2011
  2. ↑ Glückauf! Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein 110 (1999), issue 7, p. 167. ISSN  0342-5150
  3. ↑ Music CD
  4. ↑ Music CD in the Ore Mountains dialect
  5. ↑ Book Description Mei Schneebarg
  6. ↑ Regioticker with reference to the watercolor exhibition by Werner Kempf 2009  ( 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. , accessed December 29, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / vogtland.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kempf, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and dialect speaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1999
Place of death Schneeberg (Ore Mountains)