Werner Persy

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Stained glass window by Werner Persy in the Chapel Am Guten Mann in Mülheim-Kärlich: A hermit cares for a sick person ...
... and warns the boatmen on the Rhine at night.

Werner Persy (born March 10, 1924 in Trier ; † April 21, 2017 ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He lived and worked in Trier. In 2000, Werner Persy received the Ramboux Prize from his hometown Trier for his life's work.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1942, Werner Persy was drafted into military service in the Air Force that same year. From 1945 to 1951 he studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Wilhelm Schmurr and Otto Pankok .

Several study visits took him to France , Spain , Italy , Israel , Greece , Hawaii and the Lofoten Islands, among others . Persy is a founding member of the Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Trier e. V. and the Limes Art Association. His graphics and paintings are in the possession of public and private collections at home and abroad. a. Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Göppingen Art Collection, Hamburg State Library, Trier City Library, Trier Jewish Community.

He carried out major work at various church and public institutions at home and abroad, u. a. in Rome, Venice, Berlin, Saarbrücken (about the fourteen stations of the cross on the wall of the left aisle of the church of St.Josef as a sgraffito ), Mainz, Trier, Saarburg , Prüm , Dinslaken , Bonn, Munich, Ottobrunn, Boppard, Mülheim-Kärlich, in Switzerland and the USA.

Exhibitions

In addition to numerous solo exhibitions in Trier, Saarbrücken, Mainz, Munich, Osnabrück, Bremen, Berlin, Oberhausen, Paderborn, Gladbeck, Jerusalem, Salzburg, Luxembourg, Gießen and Pirna, he took part in joint exhibitions in Moscow and Podolsk (Russia), Bad Blankenburg and Daun .

  • 1976 Exhibition at the Artists House, Jerusalem
  • 1978 graphic award of the city of Kirn
  • 1994 Parallel exhibition at Palais Walderdorff / Synagogue Schweich
  • 2000 Ramboux Prize from the City of Trier
  • 2005 BBK Art Prize Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 2009 Exhibition in the gallery Palais Walderdorff, Trier
  • 2009 Exhibition in the Otto-Pankok-Museum, Bad Bentheim-Gildehaus
  • 2011 exhibition in the synagogue, Schweich
  • 2012 Exhibition in the Niederprümer Hof cultural center, Schweich
  • 2013 Exhibition in the municipal gallery Kloster Karthaus, Konz

literature

Volker Hochdörffer: The Steipe in ruins - A watercolor by the Trier painter Werner Persy from 1945 in New Trierisches Jahrbuch , 1996, page 35

Web links

Commons : Werner Persy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva-Maria Reuther: Painter, graphic artist and book illustrator - mourning for Trier artist Werner Persy . Trierischer Volksfreund , April 25, 2017, accessed on April 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.stjosef-saarbruecken.de/index.php?id=180
personal data
SURNAME Persy, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2017