Werner Schriefers
Werner Schriefers (born May 23, 1926 in Dülken , Niederrhein , † February 20, 2003 in Cologne ) was a German painter , designer and university professor .
Life
After completing high school and armed forces, Schriefers began studying textile art at the textile engineering school in Krefeld (today Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences ) under the former Bauhaus weaving master Georg Muche . He graduated in 1948 and in 1949, at the age of just 22, was brought by Jupp Ernst to the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal (now the Design Department of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal ) in the class for surface patterning and textile graphics.
In the 1950s he set up the Design Fundamentals department and became its head and later deputy director.
In 1965 he was appointed director of the Kölner Werkschulen as the successor to Professor Friedrich Vordemberge , under whose directorate the fine arts had dominated. As a board member of the Deutscher Werkbund, Schriefers put his focus a little more on design.
As a professor of painting, he himself took on a master class in the field of art and design at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences until 1989 and in 1990 became the first chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
In 1987 he donated his extensive " Design Collection Schriefers " to the University of Wuppertal and in 2002 his collection of works and shapes to the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in Cologne.
Awards
- 1985: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1995: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Exhibitions
Since 1946 Schriefers has been involved in regular exhibitions at home and abroad.
Working in public collections
- Accademia Tedesca
- Villa Massimo , Roma
- Archivo Storico d´arte Contemporanee delle Biennale, Venezia
- Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
- Archbishop's Diocesan Museum, Cologne
- Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
- Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
- Museum of Modern Art, Braunschweig
- Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- Municipal gallery, Dillingen / Saar
- Municipal gallery in Viersen Park
- Municipal Museum, Mülheim / Ruhr
- From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Schriefers in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Signature: Holdings 600 Cologne factory schools. archive.nrw.de. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Prof. Werner Schriefers. German Werkbund . Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Cologne University of Applied Sciences (ed.): 100 years of Cologne factory schools. Greven & Bechthold publishing house, Cologne 1979.
- ↑ Schriefers design collection. University collections Germany. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Werner Schriefers - For his 80th birthday. Cabinet exhibition. Kolumba . Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Werner Schriefers. Painter and graphic artist. Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal . Retrieved December 2, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schriefers, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, designer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dulken |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 2003 |
| Place of death | Cologne |