Werner Scheffel

Kranichbrunnen at TUD, designed by Scheffel

Werner Scheffel (* 1912 in Leipzig ; † October 7, 1996 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist.

Life

Scheffel was executive and first secretary of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR from 1952 to 1953 , from 1952 to 1975 he was secretary of the artistic advisory board of the University of Dresden , for which he was also active as an artist. B. in the draft of a new chain of office. As the person in charge of the art collection, he acquired over 1,000 works of art and in this role also promoted painters and sculptors who had developed their own style that did not conform to official cultural policy. Occasionally he also sponsored artists who were under observation by the MfS, such as Hermann Naumann , who was suspected of being connected with June 17th.

Scheffel took over the conception for the design of the Münchner Platz Dresden memorial . Even as an avant-garde artist, unpopular with party functionaries, at some point he could no longer be held in office as an artistic advisory board. In 1975 he had to vacate his post after the officials did not like a concrete relief by Siegfried Schade on a dormitory on Fritz-Löffler-Straße .

Exhibitions (selection)

Werner Scheffel: Drawings, Monotypes , Görlitz 1959
Graphics by Werner Scheffel , Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz 1968

Web links

Overview of the contents of Werner Scheffel's estate in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library

References and comments

↑ Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy, 2010 p. 32
↑ Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 , p. 281 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Scheffel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1996
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy, 2010 p. 32

[2] Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 , p. 281 ( limited preview in Google book search).