Werner Wittig (artist)

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Werner Wittig (born October 25, 1930 in Chemnitz ; † December 31, 2013 in Radebeul ) was a German painter , wood engraver and printmaker .

Live and act

After an apprenticeship and just started working as a baker in Chemnitz , Wittig lost his left hand in an accident in 1948, while the right hand was badly damaged. In addition to retraining as an industrial clerk, he learned to paint and draw in evening classes at the Volkshochschule in Chemnitz from 1949. Sponsored by the director of the Chemnitz art collections, Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand , Wittig studied from 1952 to 1957 at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden with Erich Fraaß , Hans Theo Richter and Max Schwimmer . In 1957 Wittig became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . From 1958 to 1961 he built the graphic workshop of the Association of Visual Artists in the Dresden district , which he also directed.

In 1970 Wittig had his first major solo exhibition with paintings and graphics in the art exhibition Kühl in Dresden. From that year he developed the technique of the wood crack , the color variant of which he developed in the mid-1970s. He designed the first colored copies in 1975. Especially with these colored wood cracks "of up to seven printing blocks in as many colors", he is one of the "most renowned representatives of artistic high-pressure printing in Germany". One example is the colored wood crack Am Wasser from 1999 . Since about 1976 his main subject has been the combination of the genres landscape and still life. In that year he took part in the 7th International Triennial for Colored Printmaking in Grenchen , Switzerland, and received the first prize for color graphics of the GDR in Berlin; in the following year 1977 he reached the 2nd price for color graphics of the GDR with 100 selected graphics.

His first solo exhibition in the Federal Republic of Germany through the Döbele Gallery in Ravensburg was made possible in 1981. In 1985 he was allowed to travel to Italy. On his 60th birthday in 1990, Wittig exhibited again at the art exhibition Kühl in Dresden. Various other exhibitions have followed since then.

Werner Wittig lived and worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Radebeul from 1958 or 1961 . He died there on New Year's Eve 2013.

Awards

He has received numerous graphic awards, including:

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Works by Werner Wittig are in numerous public collections, such as:

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wittig, Werner: Biography
  2. ↑ a b Werner Wittig: wood cracks, drawings. Kunstverein Freital, archived from the original on August 21, 2007 ; accessed on January 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ silence. Wood cracks and paintings by Werner Wittig
  4. ^ A b Exhibition archive City of Reutlingen: Exhibition: Silence. Wood cracks and paintings by Werner Wittig
  5. ↑ Matthias Zwarg: The quiet end of a silent artist: Werner Wittig, born in Chemnitz, died at the age of 83. In: Free Press . January 8, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Werner Wittig at Kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de
  7. ^ City of Zwickau: list of winners. (No longer available online.) In: www.zwickau.de. October 8, 2009, archived from the original on January 14, 2011 ; Retrieved July 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zwickau.de
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 31 2013
Place of death Radebeul