Werner Ratering

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Werner Ratering (born July 13, 1954 in Bentheim ; † November 12, 2017 ) was a German artist specializing in stone carving and graphics.

After training as a typesetter , he studied at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, department of design, and at the Münster Art Academy . From the 1970s he worked as a sculptor and freelance artist. Ratering lived in the community of Tempelhof Castle near Kreßberg . Before that, he lived and worked for over 20 years at the moated castle Haus Stapel in Havixbeck near Münster in Westphalia .

His works in public space include fountain sculptures in Langenhagen (1990) (art in the building of the Robert Koch School), Höingen (1994) and Emsdetten (1996), sculptures as part of " art in building " in the Rheine financial construction office (1982) and in the town hall of Garbsen (1998). In 1988 he erected the sculpture "backward-looking" in Schüttorf .

Work documentation

Gate to the city by Werner Ratering in Rotenburg (Wümme)
  • "Monument for O": Homage to Hugo Kückelhaus , Werl: Sparkasse (series of publications by Sparkassenstiftung 10), 1987
  • Please clear: Art in the city area of ​​Hamm (with Andreas Billinger and Henning Eichinger), Hamm: Kulturamt, 1987
  • Light Work Station , exhibition from March 21 to April 29, 1993, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück, 1993
  • Village fountain in Höingen: color sculpture in the spa garden of the city of Werl , Werl (series of publications by Sparkassenstiftung 14), 1994

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Soest Art Pavilion, Cultural Office, 1984
  • Light Work Station , Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück, 1993
  • Villa Weiner, Kunstverein Ochtrup, 1993
  • Langenhagen Art Association, 1995
  • Art Association Rotenburg / Wümme, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.trauer.ms/trauerbeispiel/werner-ratering-2017-11-12--16352139 (accessed on November 19, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Ratering, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Bentheim
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2017