Werner Stötzer

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Werner Stötzer (born April 2, 1931 in Sonneberg ; † July 22, 2010 in Altlangsow ) was a German sculptor and draftsman . He lived and worked in Altlangsow ( Seelow municipality ) in the Oderbruch .

Life

Bronze Seated Boy (1956) in Berlin's Erich-Weinert-Strasse
Reading worker in the courtyard of the German State Library in Berlin (1961)
Werra and Saale (1986) in the Magdeburg Sculpture Park

The Steinacher Werner Stötzer came in Sonneberg hospital to the world. He grew up in Steinach and after training as a ceramic modeler at the technical college for applied arts in Sonneberg , he studied from 1949 to 1951 at the college for architecture and fine arts in Weimar with Heinrich Domke , Hans van Breek and Siegfried Tschiersky . Due to the reorientation of the university, he continued his studies from 1951 to 1953 in Dresden at the University of Fine Arts with Eugen Hoffmann and Walter Arnold . From 1954 to 1958 he was a master student with Gustav Seitz at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin . The master students of this time included u. a. Manfred Böttcher and Harald Metzkes , with whom he had a lifelong friendship, but also the painter Ernst Schroeder . After the end of the master class, Stötzer was mainly a freelance artist.

In 1974 he worked on the implementation of the film The naked man on the sports field by Konrad Wolf , which was shot in his hometown Steinach and in Steinheid . He also took on a minor role as mayor himself.

Werner Stötzer also taught. From 1975 to 1978 as a guest lecturer at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . From 1987 to 1990 he held a professorship with artistic teaching activities at the Academy of the Arts of the GDR. From 1978 he was a full member and from 1990 to 1993 Vice President of the Academy of Arts . There he himself became a mentor to numerous artists. His master students at the Academy of Arts included u. a. the sculptors Horst Engelhardt, Berndt Wilde and Joachim Böttcher , from 1989 to 1992 the painter and stage designer Mark Lammert .

Study trips took him to Czechoslovakia (1955), the Soviet Union (1958), China (1957), Hungary , Austria (1957), Poland and Switzerland .

In his first marriage Werner Stötzer was married to the graphic artist Renate Rauschenbach from 1961 to 1992. They lived in the same house from the birth of their daughter Carla 1961 to 1978 in Berlin-Altglienicke. After apartments and studios in Berlin and Vilmnitz ( Putbus municipality ) on Rügen, he lived in a former parsonage in Altlangsow on the edge of the Oderbruch together with his second wife, the sculptor Sylvia Hagen , from 1980 until his death . The son Carl-Hagen Stötzer comes from this marriage.

Werner Stötzer died at the age of 79 and was buried in the Altlangsow cemetery in the Märkisch-Oderland district.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Works (selection)

Large seated , international sculpture symposium Shapes for Europe - Shapes made of stone in Syke (1991)
Marble relief Old World in the Berlin Marx-Engels-Forum (1985/86)

Quotes

  • about Stötzer
    • “[...] It was only in the marble reliefs that he consistently tried to represent spatiality and movement by foreshortening and overlapping. His preference for simplicity and manageability makes him pay particular attention to the fact that the continuous flow of the outlines and the Oragabic context of the body shapes creates a clear picture order. It is astonishing what monumentality radiates from these compositions despite the small format, the most beautiful of which is the large one dedicated to Johannes Bobrowski Is lying . "
    • “The figure artist Stötzer, who also always traced the body postures and outlines by drawing, was at the same time highly receptive to landscapes, which are also human habitats. He then rewrote the landscape with the help of the human figure - Werra and Saale, waymarks, sea markings, Märkisches Tor. "
  • about your own work
    • "My content is neither heaven nor hell, it is man."
    • "[...] I sat in front of the boy who was modeled and cast. Very boring. I got very angry one Saturday. Then I took a hatchet, in my anger I had also had a drink, and struck it in the cross. The head flies up and looks up. Then I left that [...] And then there was an exhibition in which I showed the boy, and it said in the ND or some other newspaper that the boy was looking up at the Sputnik . That was lovely. This is the boy looking at the Sputnik. "

Movie

Literature (selection)

Obituaries

Web links

Grave of Werner Stötzer in Altlangsow
Commons : Werner Stötzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Technical school for applied arts in Sonneberg ; Design in the GDR, project of the Industrial and Everyday Culture Foundation .
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Werner Stötzer
  3. ↑ thueringer-allgemeine.de: Memories of the Thuringian sculptor Werner Stötzer Article from July 31, 2010.
  4. ↑ Annegret Janda: Companions. 25 GDR artists . VEB Verlag der Kunst, Berlin 1970, p. 320 ff.
  5. ↑ Peter H. Feist : Wegzeichen in Stein, drawing, word . In: Neues Deutschland , July 24, 2010
  6. ↑ Werner Stötzer according to tagesschau.de ( memento from July 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) July 23, 2010
  7. ↑ on the creative process of the sculpture Seated Boy at the Age of 25. Personally cited from the exhibition catalog (published by Ursel Berger). In: Prenzlberg Views , January 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Stötzer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonneberg
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2010
Place of death Altlangsow