Wilfried Fitzenreiter

Wilfried Fitzenreiter (born September 17, 1932 in Salza (Harz) , † April 12, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Fitzenreiter completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Halle from 1951 to 1952 . From 1952 to 1958 he studied sculpture at the Institute for Artistic Work Design in Halle under Gustav Weidanz and Gerhard Lichtenfeld . Then he was a master student at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Heinrich Drake until 1961 . Since then he has worked freelance in Berlin in Prenzlauer Berg . At times he held a teaching position at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . At the Xth Art Exhibition , his bronze figure Striding from 1986 could be seen. Wilfried Fitzenreiter was a member of FIDEM, the German Society for Medal Art and belonged to the Berlin Medalists.

Works

Fitzenreiter's work includes sculptures, coins , medals , drawings and gems .

Outdoor sculptures

• 1959: Boys' group for Brunnen Wandlitz , Bernau , sculpture collection of the Waldsiedlung
• 1960: Max Reinhardt , Schumannstrasse, Berlin (in front of the Deutsches Theater )
• 1972: Standing boy , Lennépark Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1973: Knabenakt , Asklepios Klinikum Uckermark , Schwedt / Oder
• 1975: End of the game , Rudolfplatz, Berlin
• 1976/79 The judgment of Paris , Brühl-Boulevard , Chemnitz
• 1979: Lovers , Warnemünde beach promenade
• 1984: Bathing mermaid , Kulturpark am Tollensesee, Neubrandenburg
• 1988: Three girls and a boy , CityQuartier DomAquarée, Berlin (originally created between 1977 and 1979 as a group back to back in the middle of a bubbling fountain between Karl-Liebknecht-Straße and the Palasthotel on the sidewalk, freely accessible)
• 1991: Karl May Memorial , Ernstthaler Markt, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

gallery

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  “Three girls and a boy”
  Berlin

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  Lovers
  Rostock-Warnemünde

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  Max Reinhardt
  Berlin

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  Defeated
  Chemnitz

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  Knabenakt
  Eisenhüttenstadt

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  Oath of Hippocrates
  Hoyerswerda

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  End of the game
  Berlin

Coins

5-mark commemorative coin of the GDR for the 100th birthday of Albert Einstein

• 17 commemorative coins based on designs by Wilfried Fitzenreiter were made in the GDR . The models were created in collaboration with the graphic artists Axel Bertram (14) and Heinz Rodewald (3).
• 1969: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, GDR commemorative coin worth 20 marks
• 1979: Albert Einstein, GDR commemorative coin worth 5 marks

Medals and Plaques

The catalog of works includes around 500 medals and plaques (see under " Literature "; status: 2008). Below are

• 1974: Ludwig Justi medal
• 1987: Bronze plaque for the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize
• 1998: Louise Schroeder Medal

Awards

• 1959: Gold and silver medal at the international exhibition of young artists in Vienna
• 1964: Will Lammert Prize of the Academy of the Arts
• 1965: Art Prize of the DTSB
• 1979: Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of the Arts
• 1981: National Prize
• 2007: Hilde Broër Prize

literature

• Literature by and about Wilfried Fitzenreiter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernhard Weisser : Antiquity in the artistic work of Wilfried Fitzenreiter. , P. 44–55 and catalog raisonné Wilfried Fitzenreiter, medals and plaques (442 numbers with 45 illustrations), p. 76–117 In: Martin Heidemann and Wolfgang Steguweit (eds.): Thanks to the castle. Medal art in Halle in the 20th century. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7861-2462-0 .
• Magdalena George: Wilfried Fitzenreiter. In: Fine arts. 10/1981, pp. 483-495
• Gallery Unter den Linden (Ed.): Wilfried Fitzenreiter. Plastic, drawings, watercolors. Berlin 1990
• Lothar Lang: Wilfried Fitzenreiter. Exhibition catalog. Institute for Teacher Training (Art Cabinet), Berlin 1965
• Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 3 (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV , Volume 93). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2014, pp. 10–11 (with illustrations); PDF

Web links

Commons : Wilfried Fitzenreiter  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage Wilfried Fitzenreiter estate
• Artist portrait of the art foundry Flierl
• Exhibitions for the 80th birthday
• Art space talk about Wilfried Fitzenreiter
• Medals from Wilfried Fitzenreiter in the interactive catalog of the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fitzenreiter, Wilfried (1932-2008). (September 17, 1932, Salza near Nordhausen, Harz - April 12, 2008, Berlin). Berlin State Library, accessed on September 20, 2015 . 
2. ^ "Art space downtown - sculpture collection of the Bernau forest settlement" , accessed on December 28, 2018.
3. ↑ Did you know? ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Information from the Berlin House of Representatives; Retrieved November 27, 2013.