Werner Stötzer
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
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
- 1962 Will Lammert Prize of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin (East) .
- 1975 Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin (East).
- 1977 and 1986 National Prize of the GDR
- 1994 Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture
- 2008 Brandenburg Art Prize
- 2009 honorary citizen of the city of Seelow
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1960 Berlin , State Museums in Berlin, National Gallery
- 1963 Magdeburg , Kulturhistorisches Museum (together with Gerhard Kettner)
- 1964 Altenburg , Greifswald , Stralsund , Erfurt
- 1965 Vienna , Gallery "ZB" (together with Gerhard Kettner)
- 1970 Potsdam
- 1972 Leipzig , Dresden
- 1979 Rostock , gallery on the boulevard
- 1982 Ravensburg
- 1986 Bremen , Gerhard-Marcks-Haus
- 1995 Zurich , World Trade Center
- 1996 Lake Maggiore , Vira - Gambarogno Ticino Switzerland
- 1998 Frankfurt am Main , Schwind Gallery
- 1999 Duisburg , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
- 2000 Düsseldorf , Beethovenstrasse Gallery
- 2001 Berlin, Leo Coppi Gallery
- 2002 Berlin, gallery + edition refugium
- 2003 Frankfurt am Main, Schwind Gallery
- 2004 Bremen , "Face the Stone", Gerhard-Marcks-Haus
- 2005 Dresden, Beyer Gallery
- 2005 Leipzig, Schwind Gallery
- 2006 Berlin, Academy of Arts (Berlin) , "Märkische Steine"
- 2006 Dresden, Leonhardi Museum, "Wegzeichen"
- 2006 Berlin, LEO.COPPI gallery
- 2009 Frankfurt am Main, Schwind Gallery
- 2013 Hamburg , Open-Air-Show Figure as Resistance on Jungfernstieg (together with Alfred Hrdlicka and Bernd Stöcker )
- 2020 Berlin, art trade Dr. Wilfried Karger (sculptures - sculptures - drawings)
Works (selection)
- 1956 Seated Boy , bronze
- 1959/60 Questions of a reading worker and reading by workers in the courtyard of the Berlin State Library , Unter den Linden , bronze relief
- 1963 Portrait of Gerhard Kettner , bronze bust
- 1965 Mourning women , marble relief
- 1966–1968 bronze door for the monastery of Our Dear Women , Magdeburg
- 1967 Babi Jar , relief and lithography
- 1970 Design of a bronze door for the St. Thomas Church in Erfurt
- 1972 Auschwitz group , marble
- 1980 Set design and masks for Electra at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- 1982–84 Saale and Werra , Magdeburg Sculpture Park
- 1985–86 Old World marble relief wall for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin-Mitte
- 1986–87 mother and child
- 1988 Gypsy from Marzahn
- 1991 Large seated woman ( International Sculpture Symposium Shapes for Europe - Shapes from Stone in Syke )
- 1995 torso (for Eberhard Roters)
- 1996 refugees
- 1996 Undine
- 2002 lying woman
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
- Workshop Future II (GDR 1976, director: Joachim Hellwig )
Literature (selection)
- 1965 Wolfgang Hütt: Young visual artists of the GDR . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig
- 1970 companions. 25 artists from the GDR . VEB publishing house for art, Dresden
- 1986 Werner Stötzer: Sculptures and drawings . Gerhard Marcks Foundation, in collaboration with the Academy of Arts of the GDR
- 1989 Günter Ladwig: Werner Stötzer, his teachers, his students . Messer-Ladwig, ISBN 3-9802286-0-6
- 1991 Karin Thomas: Werner Stötzer. Sculpture and drawing . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne
- 1998 Werner Stötzer: Sculptures and Drawings 1989–1998 . Galerie Schwind, ISBN 3-932830-28-8
- 2002 Matthias Flügge and Bernd Heise: Thoughts and Motives . edition refugium, ISBN 3-932153-11-1
- 2009 Werner Stötzer: Sculptures and Drawings 2009 . Galerie Schwind, ISBN 3-932830-59-8
- 2009 DVD studio sketches Werner Stoetzer . LNW publishing house
- Anke Scharnhorst, Ingrid Kirschey-Feix : Stötzer, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Ingeborg Ruthe: The rest of the incomprehensibility must remain . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 2, 2001; for the 70th birthday
- Sculptor Werner Stötzer receives art award for life's work . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , July 5, 2008
- The language of the stones . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 7, 2008
Obituaries
- Werner Stötzer died . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , July 23, 2010
- The trail of his stones . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 24, 2010
- Peter H. Feist : Waymarks in stone, drawing, word . In: Neues Deutschland , July 24, 2010
- He added something to the stone with a hammer and chisel . In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 24, 2010
- Completely unfinished . ( Memento from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine , July 24, 2010
- Sculptor Werner Stötzer dies . In: Hamburger Abendblatt
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Stötzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Werner Stötzer in the German Digital Library
- Werner Stötzer at sculpture in Berlin
- Selected works and detailed biography in the Schwind Gallery, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main
- Werner Stötzer on the website of the Academy of Arts
- Werner Stötzer died. Sculptor of the "human figure". n-tv.de, Saturday, July 24, 2010
- Werner Stötzer Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Technical school for applied arts in Sonneberg ; Design in the GDR, project of the Industrial and Everyday Culture Foundation .
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Werner Stötzer
- ↑ thueringer-allgemeine.de: Memories of the Thuringian sculptor Werner Stötzer Article from July 31, 2010.
- ↑ Annegret Janda: Companions. 25 GDR artists . VEB Verlag der Kunst, Berlin 1970, p. 320 ff.
- ↑ Peter H. Feist : Wegzeichen in Stein, drawing, word . In: Neues Deutschland , July 24, 2010
- ↑ Werner Stötzer according to tagesschau.de ( memento from July 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) July 23, 2010
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |