Werner Rohland

Werner Rohland (born December 13, 1899 in Crimmitschau , Germany , † June 3, 1974 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt , Germany) was a German painter , artist and printer .

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a book printer in his father's company, he worked, among other things, in the large print shop of CH Beck in Nördlingen and trained as a painter by himself. In 1932 he began to work as a freelance artist.

In the following years he stayed on Lake Constance in Wasserburg , Konstanz and Maurach. The painter William Straube became his mentor.

He married in 1935 and returned to Saxony in 1939. In 1943 he was drafted and served as a medic .

During the air raid on Dresden in 1945 , all of his previous work was destroyed. After the war and a year as a prisoner of war in the south of France , he was able to resume his artistic work.

He settled in Tiefenbach am Federsee and took part in art life in Upper Swabia . At the beginning of the 1950s he became a member of the Stuttgart New Secession and moved in a circle around Alfred Wais and Manfred Henninger .

He preferred to paint motifs from his familiar surroundings. This included landscapes, interiors, figure paintings and still lifes .

literature

• Stefan Borchardt (editor): Werner Rohland. Figures, Spaces, Landscapes , for the exhibition at the Hohenkarpfen Art Museum . Belser, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7630-2677-7 .
• Curt Grützmacher , Bruno Effinger, Rotraut and Hans Christoph Binswanger , Bernhard Rövenstrunck, Otmar M. Weigele u. a .: Werner Rohland 1899-1974 painter , published by the Kreissparkasse Biberach an der Riss in Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 1999, ISBN 978-3-925171-41-3 .