Werner Rataiczyk

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Portrait photo of Werner Rataiczyk
Werner Rataiczyk in his studio at Talstrasse 23 in Halle (Saale), 2010, photo: Matthias Rataiczyk

Werner Rataiczyk (born June 23, 1921 in Eisleben ; † January 3, 2021 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German painter and graphic artist . His work includes paintings , drawings , graphics , tapestries , art on site , as well as a variety of colored glass windows and wall designs. It is shaped by the reception of classic modernism , which he developed into his own style from 1947 in the vicinity of the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle . His work belongs toHalle School . The most important companion in his artistic development was his teacher Erwin Hahs . Since the early 1950s, it was mainly representatives of modern art in France as Jean Lurçat , Jean Picart Le Doux and Marc Saint-Saens that it one of the most important artists of the revival of the tradition of tapestry in central Germany after the Second World War are let.

Werner Rataiczyk: Rocky Shore, 1961
Werner Rataiczyk: Felsiges Ufer , 1961, oil on hardboard, 85 × 100 cm, estate of the artist, photo: Matthias Rataiczyk

Live and act

Werner Rataiczyk was born in Lutherstadt Eisleben in 1921. After an apprenticeship as a commercial artist, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1940 . From 1941 to 1945 he served as a soldier in North Africa and Italy. During his British captivity, he studied at the "camp university" Fayed with Georg Roppel and Gerhard Wendland . In 1947 he was able to return home and studied painting with Erwin Hahs at the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle (Saale) until 1952 . After his diploma he was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBKD) in 1952 .

As early as the early 1950s, the reduction of the pictorial objects and the formal language led to an artistic abstraction of the motifs. The examination of the work of Pablo Picasso and the discovery of the modern French tapestry played an important role in the development of his painterly work . In 1952 he married Rosemarie Rost. Together with her, the painter and picture maker Rosemarie Rataiczyk , he set up a private tapestry workshop. In the years from 1955 to 1999, more than fifty tapestries, some of them large-format, were made, for which Werner Rataiczyk designed the boxes and which his wife Rosemarie Rataiczyk made by hand. Various helpers have been involved in the production of the large-format tapestries in the artist couple's studio over the years, e. B. Barbro Wiederhold and Erdmute Frank.

At the same time he created his extensive painterly oeuvre as well as numerous building-related works for churches and public representative rooms since the mid-1960s. Until 1992 he designed numerous colored glass windows for Catholic and Protestant churches as well as for secular buildings. The executions took place in different companies. Werner Rataiczyk worked with lithography from 1966 until the mid-1970s . The establishment of an own litho workshop followed. His collaboration in 1963/64 on the 5-part puppet cartoon series "Feffi Kunterbunts Adventure" for DEFA is something special . The idea and the book came from Gerd E. Schäfer , directed by Klaus Georgi . According to the drafts by Werner Rataiczyk, the puppets and background scenes were created in the DEFA animation film studio in Dresden . The films were first broadcast on GDR television in June / July 1964 .

Werner Rataiczyk: Lament for the Dead, Sidi Chalifa, 1960
Werner Rataiczyk: Lament for the Dead , Sidi Chalifa , 1960, oil on har fiber, 122 × 152 cm, estate of the artist, photo: Matthias Rataiczyk

Since his return from captivity, he lived and worked with his wife and two children in Halle (Saale). In 1960 his son Matthias Rataiczyk was born , and a year later his daughter Marcella Rataiczyk was born. In 1991 he was one of the founding members of the art association "Talstrasse" eV , today's sponsoring association of the art gallery "Talstrasse" in Halle (Saale).

A part of Werner Rataiczyk's artistic legacy is documented online in the work database Visual Arts Saxony-Anhalt of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Saxony-Anhalt.

Prices

Working in public collections

Tapestries (designs: Werner Rataiczyk, execution: Rosemarie Rataiczyk , selection)

Rosemarie and Werner Rataiczyk: Art and Science, 1983
Rosemarie and Werner Rataiczyk: Art and Science , 1983, tapestry, 200 × 280 cm, art collection of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, photo: Matthias Rataiczyk
  • 1957–60 "Algeria carpet", 3 × 4 m, tapestry for the pioneer house in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today in the collection of the Chemnitz art collections )
  • 1959 "Noah's Ark", 0.7 × 2.3 m, tapestry for St. Nicolai (Landsberg)
  • 1959/60 animal carpet / "good and bad", 2.2 × 5 m, tapestry canvas (estate of the artist)
  • 1961–63 "Four Elements", 6.4 × 2.5 m, tapestry for the Technical University of Merseburg
  • 1965 "Halle carpet", 3.3 × 5 m, tapestry for the Interhotel Stadt Halle (Maritim) (estate of the artist)
  • 1966 "The Man" and "The Woman", each 4.4 × 2.2 m, tapestries for the Komische Oper Berlin (estate of the artist)
  • 1971–72 "The Learning Woman", 2.5 × 4 m, tapestry for the Halle (Saale) registry office (today in the art collection of the State of Saxony-Anhalt )
  • 1975 "Forces of Life and Earth", 2 × 2 m, tapestry, Humboldt University Berlin
  • 1977 "Variations", 1.5 × 2 m, tapestry for the monastery of Our Dear Women , Magdeburg (today in the collection of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg )
  • 1981/82 “Development of Sciences”, 2 × 6 m, tapestry for the Senate Hall of the Humboldt University , Berlin
  • 1983 "Art and Science", 2 × 2.8 m, tapestry (today in the art collection of the state of Saxony-Anhalt )
  • 1984–87 "The Day", "The Night", each 2 × 2 m, "Sounds of Nature", 2 × 4 m, tapestries for the cultural center of the GDR in Paris (today in the collection of the Foreign Office )
  • 1988/89 "Animals of the Forest", 2 × 3.4 m, tapestry for Allstedt Castle
  • 1991 "Tree of Life", 180 × 103 cm, tapestry for the community center of the Evangelical Philippus Church in Dresden-Gorbitz
  • 1993 "Riff", 2 × 1.1 m, tapestry canvas (estate of the artist)
  • 2000 “Plants and Animals”, 1.88 × 1.77 m, tapestry for private collection

Glass designs

Werner Rataiczyk: Window for St. Nikolai in Bernburg, 1968, Photo: Matthias Rataiczyk
  • 1959 window in the choir apse, lead glazing, St. Nicolai (Landsberg)
  • 1964 window (1 yoke) for St. Bartholomäus (Blankenburg (Harz))
  • 1968 Window in the altar wall of the Catholic Church St. Nikolai (Bernburg) in Bernburg -Gröna
  • 1970 "From the animal world", 5 windows 2 × 2 m, black solder painting, lead glazed, for the dining room of the light metal works in Nachterstedt
  • 1973 6 curtain disks of 1.4 × 0.75 m and 7 curtain disks, diameter 1.2 m, black solder painting, lead glazed, for the dining room of the large household appliances combine, Schwarzenberg
  • 1974 11 windows of 2 × 2 m, black solder painting, lead glazed, for the dining room of the large laundry in Halle-Ammendorf
  • 1975 "The Four Seasons", 4 windows, lead glazing, for the staircase of the Hotel "Rotes Ross" in Halle (Saale)
  • 1977 Glass partition, 32 square meters, colored glass, glued, for the dining room of the chemical works in Buna
  • 1984 2 windows and 11-part cladding window design for the Catholic Church of St. Marien in Halle-Beesen
  • 1991 "Elisabeth window", main window, 3.6 × 3.2 m, and 4 corner windows, 0.75 × 0.4 m, on the life of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , black solder painting, lead glazed, for the reception hall of St. Elisabeth Hospital in Halle (Saale), together with Matthias Rataiczyk
  • 1993 Main window and 2 accompanying windows, leaded glazing, for the funeral hall in Freiberg

Architectural art

  • 1959 Painting and wall design as well as textile design in the chancel of the parish hall of the Pauluskirche (Halle)
  • 1962 "Cross of Suffering", 7 × 3.6 m, application, for the Catholic Church of St. Dionysius (Hundeshagen) (together with Rosemarie Rataiczyk)
  • 1976 Wall design, 3 × 9 m, wood, silver-plated, painted, for the dining room of the lignite power station in Vockerode
  • 1977 Wall design opposite the glass partition in the dining room of the chemical works in Buna
  • 1981 “The Four Seasons”, design of a column, painting on chalk ground, partly silvered, for the Halle-Neustadt nursing home

Exhibitions (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Rataiczyk, Werner . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 21 .
  • Article tapestry. In: Lexicon of Art. Seemann, Leipzig 1968, Volume 1, p. 295.
  • Walter Funkat: Handicrafts in the GDR. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1970 (in it: Gobelin “Die Frau” , Komische Oper Berlin, p. 274).
  • Edith Krull: Decorative tapestries. In: Fine arts . Berlin 1958, issue 9, pp. 612-616.
  • Edith Krull: Tapestries in the Albertinum. In: Fine arts. Berlin 1973, issue 2, p. 77.
  • Rosemarie and Werner Rataiczyk. In: Catalog for the exhibition painting, graphics and tapestry, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, 1973.
  • Erika Neumann, Ullrich Kuhirt: Art and Architecture. Seemann, Leipzig 1974 (with images of the tapestries Die Frau , pp. 27–28 and Stadt Halle , pp. 105–106).
  • Wolfgang Hütt : A tapestry workshop in Halle. In: Fine arts. Berlin 1966, issue 10, pp. 513-517.
  • Wolfgang Hütt: Artists in Halle. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1977, pp. 14–15.
  • Wolfgang Hütt: Graphics in the GDR. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1979 (therein: Rosemarie Rataiczyk, text, p. 84, ill. Pp. 83 and 278; Werner Rataiczyk, text p. 84, ill. Pp. 222–223, biography p. 393).
  • Wolfgang Hütt: We and art. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 340.
  • Wolfgang Hütt: Funded. Supervised. Reform pressure from visual artists of the GDR. The example of Halle. Stekovics, Dößel (Saalkreis) 2004, ISBN 3-89923-073-6 .
  • Dorit Litt , Matthias Rataiczyk (eds.): Ostracized Formalists: Art from Halle (Saale) 1945 to 1963. Art association “Talstrasse”, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-932962-03-6 , pp. 101-103.

Catalogs

  • Rosemarie and Werner Rataiczyk. Catalog: Center for Art Exhibitions of the GDR for group exhibition in the National Museum Damascus / Syria with a text by Ingrid Schulze. Berlin, Damascus 1987.
  • Tapestries by Rosemarie and Werner Rataiczyk. Catalog, Historisches Museum Schloss Gifhorn and Hallescher Kunstverein with texts by Andreas Kühne and Hans-Georg Sehrt. 1993.
  • Werner Rataiczyk. The painterly work. Catalog, Kunstverein “Talstrasse”, Halle, with texts by Andreas Kühne and Thomas Müller, 1996.
  • Werner Rataiczyk. From landscape to abstraction. Catalog, Kunstverein “Talstrasse”, Halle, with texts by Andreas Kühne, Christoph Sorger and Angela Dolgner , 2010.

Web links

Commons : Werner Rataiczyk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Montag: Quiet witness of the century: Hallescher painter Werner Rataiczyk died on Sunday. January 3, 2021, accessed on January 4, 2021 (German).
  2. ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: Restorer woven like 800 years ago. Retrieved January 3, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Feffi Kunterbunts adventure. 1st part | filmportal.de. Retrieved January 3, 2021 .
  4. ↑ - Saxony-Anhalt's artistic heritage now online. Retrieved January 3, 2021 (German).
  5. ^ State administration office Saxony-Anhalt: Documentation center for fine arts. Retrieved January 3, 2021 .
  6. ↑ "The Earth" , image section from the tapestry "Four Elements" . In: Meyer's New Lexicon. Leipzig, 1973, Vol. 5, p. 523.
  7. ↑ Fine arts and architecture. "Stadt Halle", tapestry and "Four Elements", tapestry, TH Merseburg . In: Deutsche Bauakademie zu Berlin: Catalog II. Halle-Leipzig, 1971, pp. 11–13.
  8. ↑ Fine arts and architecture. The man and the woman - two tapestries for the foyer of the Komische Oper Berlin. In: Deutsche Bauakademie zu Berlin: Catalog I. 1969, pp. 36–39.
  9. ↑ Forces of life and earth | Rosemarie Rataiczyk | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index
  10. ↑ Church building - Ev.-Luth. Parish Dresden-West (kirchspiel-dresden-west.de)
  11. ↑ A curtain preaches. Wall design and application by Werner and Rosemarie Rataiczyk in the Paulus parish hall in Halle / Saale. In: The Church. Evangelical weekly newspaper. 1960, No. 12, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Rataiczyk, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2021
Place of death Halle (Saale)