Woldemar Winkler

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Woldemar Winkler (born June 17, 1902 in Mügeln ; † September 30, 2004 in Gütersloh ) was a German painter , draftsman and sculptor . He is considered to be the continuer and co-creator of a romantic tradition as represented in Germany by Max Ernst and Richard Oelze .

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Concrete glass window in the Gütersloh Evangelium Church , 1960

From 1919 Winkler initially worked in architecture offices in Dresden and Pforzheim because his father, a strict economic consultant, was against an artistic profession. After two years he began to study at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden - architecture with Karl Simmang , but also painting with Carl Rade , with whom he became a master student in 1925 and an assistant a year later. In Dresden during the Weimar Republic he met artists such as Otto Dix and Oskar Kokoschka .

In 1927 Winkler received a call from Hofrat Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli (1864–1929) at his private "Academy for Drawing, Painting and Modeling", where he taught, among others, Kate Diehn-Bitt . Just one year later he took over the management of the academy until 1941. Winkler's works, which he had made for municipal buildings in Dresden from 1927, were partially destroyed by the National Socialists as " degenerate ". He was also accused of supporting Jews and Communists and keeping them hidden.

In 1941 he was called up for military service, where he worked as an "apprentice for soldier work". Winkler was taken prisoner of war in 1943 (until 1947). When Dresden was bombed , much of his artistic work and his studio were destroyed. Winkler met his wife Margret Horstkotte and moved to Gütersloh in East Westphalia . He worked as a painter, illustrator and designer for books, glass windows and wall paintings. From 1960 he went on work and study trips to Vence in the south of France every year , where he met Max Ernst in 1970 .

Since the mid-1960s, Winkler's graphics , sculptures , collages and assemblages have been exhibited regularly in galleries, art halls and museums, such as the Musée Ingres in Montauban or the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden. He turned down an offer from the GDR to return to Dresden. Instead he became a full member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in West Germany , in whose annual exhibitions he participated a total of fourteen times between 1975 ( Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund) and 1993 ( Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden). In 1976 and 1980 Winkler took part in the biennials in Spain. In 1982 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and in 1987 the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1992 he was appointed honorary professor in the art department at the University of Paderborn . On September 30, 2004 Winkler died at the age of 102 in his house in Gütersloh- Niehorst .

Woldemar Winkler Foundation

In 1994 Winkler contributed over 200 of his paintings, drawings and sculptures to the Gütersloh Woldemar Winkler Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to present and cultivate Winkler's artistic life's work. In addition, it organizes international artist encounters and promotes young artists and education and training in the field of art in the sense of the work of Woldemar Winkler.

Woldemar Winkler Art Prize

Since 1997, the Woldemar Winkler Foundation has awarded the Woldemar Winkler Art Prize, endowed with (now) 5,000 euros, every two years . The winner is automatically a member of the jury for the following award ceremony. There is also a “sponsorship award” worth 1,500 euros. With the prizes, Woldemar Winkler wanted to “help those artists who consistently follow the path of the imaginative and, like me, do not receive recognition from the start”.

Previous winners have been the Czech Milan Nápravník , the Karlsruher Voré , the Canadian Mimi Parent , the French Louis Pons and the painter Rosa Loy , co-founder of the so-called Leipzig painting school and wife of the painter and graphic artist Neo Rauch . The 2007 award winner was the painter Sid Gastl , who was born in Nuremberg and lives in Berlin ; the award went to the painter Ruprecht von Kaufmann, who also worked in Berlin . The 2009 prize winner was the painter Luigi Troja, who was born in Palermo and lives in Munich . In 2011 the prize went to the draftswoman and painter Nikola Jaensch, who comes from Würzburg and lives in Mainz . In 2013, Helen Jilavu ​​was the first photography artist to be honored. Born in 1977 in Kaiserslautern to Romanian parents, the lecturer at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences prevailed against eight other candidates. Ina Schulte , a painter from Halle (Westphalia) who lives in Cologne, won the 2015 award .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sepp Hiekisch-Picard: Woldemar Winkler and Surrealism. In: Woldemar Winkler - A life's work. Wienand, Cologne 1999, p. 126.
  2. ↑ State capital Dresden receives over 2000 paintings, graphics, photographs and documents. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, May 6, 2003, accessed on December 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibition participations Winkler, Woldemar (accessed on January 18, 2016)
  4. ↑ biography. Woldemar Winkler Foundation, accessed on December 27, 2016 .

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SURNAME Winkler, Woldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mill
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2004
Place of death Gutersloh