Wolfgang Friedrich

Lying and standing robed figure 1999

Warnminner Ümgang 2004

Wolfgang Friedrich (* 1947 in Torgau ) is a Rostock sculptor and medalist .

Life

Wolfgang Friedrich completed his vocational training as a qualified glass worker in 1966. From 1968 to 1973 he studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Gerd Jaeger , Walter Arnold , Herbert Naumann and Helmut Schwager, among others . This is followed by an aspiration. Friedrich worked from 1977 to 1978 as a teacher at the evening school at the Dresden University and has since worked as a freelance sculptor in Rostock. Friedrich is a lecturer in Gestalt theory at the Technical Art School in Rostock.

Works

The visualization of the ancient heritage on the horizon of today's experience. is one of Friedrich's intentions.

• 1982 Female figure, life-size, bronze in Dierhagen
• 1986 Railing with figures, bronze, Fünfgiebelhaus restaurant in Rostock
• 1987 Well system "Quelle - Wasser - Ufer", joint work, Schnickmannstrasse in Rostock
• 1989 Circulation of figures for a clock, bronze, five-gable house in Rostock
• 1996 Baptismal font, bronze, Christ Church in Schwerin
• 1997 Fountain bowl, bronze, Monastery of the Holy Cross in Rostock
• 1998 Reclining and standing robed figure, bronze, at the Petrikirche in Rostock
• 1999 Sea mark, steel, in the port of Sassnitz
• 1999 Fountain, bronze and stone, Brunnenhof in Rostock
• 1999 "Island of Women", bronze in Warnemünde
• 2002 Fountain, bronze and stone on the museum courtyard in Barth
• 2004 Fountain sculpture "Warnemünde Handling", 19 figures in Warnemünde
• 2008 Arethusa fountain sculpture , plus a relief on the history of the city in Damgarten
• 2010 City model with a monument to Christoph Julius Löwe on the market square in front of the Neustrelitz town church
• 2011 Prayer bell of the Marienkirche Rostock
• 2012 Memorial plaque for Gottfried Kiesow in the Georgenkirche (Wismar)
• 2013 city model of Ludwigslust
• 2013 Metis main university building in Rostock
• 2014 Michael Tryanowski small sculpture in the Rostocker Hof
• 2015 Memorial sculpture “Die Mrauerbe” for women who perished in the subcamp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp , at the Franciscan monastery in Neubrandenburg

Friedrich also created many small sculptures as well as graphics and paintings.

Awards

• 1998 Ernst Rietschel Art Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Friedrich. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ reporting www.rostock-heute.de
3. ↑ Monument unveiled: “The Mourners” commemorates Nazi forced laborers , Schweriner Volkszeitung , April 17, 2015

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Friedrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page by W. Friedrich