Wolfgang Lenz
Wolfgang Lenz (born March 17, 1925 in Würzburg ; † January 1, 2014 ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He is considered an important representative of "fantastic realism".
Life
Wolfgang Lenz was born in Würzburg, where he also spent his youth. Even before his military service from 1943 to 1945, he was interested in painting. After the end of the war he completed an apprenticeship as a painter and attended the Würzburg arts and crafts school from 1947 to 1949. His teacher was Heiner Dikreiter , the founder of the Städtische Galerie Würzburg , who trained him in freehand and life drawing.
In 1949 Lenz began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and joined Hermann Kaspar's class . A scholarship with a one-year stay in Rome from 1955 to 1956 interrupted his studies in Munich. Here he had the opportunity to study Italian painting and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque in detail. He then returned to the Munich Academy as a master student of Hermann Kaspar and graduated from there in 1958.
As early as 1954, his former teacher and mentor Dikreiter made it possible for him to have his first exhibition of his pictures in Würzburg. A second followed four years later. The Goethe Institute in Rome exhibited his graphics .
From 1959 Lenz worked as a lecturer at the Würzburger Werkkunstschule . In 1963 he married Hella Seibel (now Hella Lenz ). Two years later, daughter Barbara Lenz , who is also an artist, was born. Lenz taught at the Werkkunstschule until 1971. Since then he has worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist.
In private and public commissions he painted in Würzburg, Aschaffenburg , Wiesbaden , Straubing and Munich. He had his residence or his house in Würzburg.
In 1983 Lenz stayed for six weeks in Ōtsu , Würzburg's twin city in Japan , as part of an artist exchange , followed in 1992 by a two-month guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
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Lenz painted watercolors , gouaches , reverse glass paintings, produced graphics and emerged with images of fantastic realism . He also designed sets and costumes for theater performances. As an artist for wall and ceiling painting, he enjoyed a considerable reputation. In 1984, in his hometown of Würzburg, he painted the large plenary hall of the town hall, and the painting of the iron curtain and the ceiling in the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden are also noteworthy.
Special recognition attained Lenz with the Würzburg Totentanz in 1970. This 25th anniversary of the city of destruction by an aerial bombardment of the Royal Air Force created on 16 March 1945 previous picture was the poster widespread and can be considered the artistic realization of Würzburg trauma are absolutely .
The reverse glass paintings reconstructed and supplemented by Wolfgang Lenz from 1978 to 1986 enabled the complete restoration of the mirror cabinet in the Würzburg Residence, which was destroyed during the war.
Exhibitions of his works took place in Würzburg, Nuremberg , Munich, Frankfurt am Main , Hanover , Caen , Ōtsu and Brighton .
Individual works
- Painting of the "arbor" in the Würzburg Ratskeller, 1971 to 1973
- Stage design and costumes for Mozart's Don Giovanni , Stadttheater Würzburg, 1973
- Stage design and costumes for Mozart's The Gardener for Love , Stadttheater Würzburg, 1975
- Creation of a new stage curtain and restoration of the ceiling painting in the Wiesbaden State Theater , 1977 to 1978
- High altar painting for the Asamkirche in Straubing, 1981
- Stage design for Telemann's Pimpinone at the Bavarian Chamber Opera Veitshöchheim, 1982
- Painting of the "Café Mozart" in Würzburg, 1982
- Ceiling painting of the Sand Church in Aschaffenburg, 1986
- Reconstruction and addition of all reverse glass paintings in the mirror cabinet of the Würzburg Residence, 1978 to 1986
- Painting of the large plenary hall in the Würzburg town hall, 1984 to 1987
- Painting of the "Café Prinzipal" in the Prinzregententheater Munich, 1997
- Painting of the Franconian wine bar in the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in Berlin, 1998 to 1999
- Painting of the garden pavilion in the Juliusspital Würzburg , 2000
- Painting of the meeting room of the Estenfeld community , 2004
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (May 9, 1975)
- Culture Prize of the City of Würzburg , 1977
- Medal of the City of Würzburg, 1985
- Bavarian Order of Merit , 1989
- Culture Prize of the Bavarian State Foundation, 1990
- Guest of honor at the German Academy “Villa Massimo” in Rome, 1992
- Medal "Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum" from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, 1998
- Awarded the “Dancing Shepherd” from the city of Würzburg, 2005
Posthumous appreciation
In March 2014, the Wolfgang-Lenz-Weg in the Steinbachtal district was named after the artist.
From 23 August to 21 September 2014, the museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg showed a selection of 70 works from his estate.
literature
- Wolfgang Lenz, easel paintings - drawings - reverse glass painting. Würzburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-87717-709-9
- Wolfgang Lenz: Würzburg. Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-87717-708-5 .
- Lenz, Lenz, Lenz. multiculture Arts Network, Kitzingen 2001.
- "Painter and critical observer" Wolfgang Lenz. In: Charlotte Breyer: Würzburg in the heart. Mediengruppe Main-Post, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 3-925232-65-6 .
- Enjoy the way of life - in and around Würzburg. 2012 select, Bamberg, ISBN 978-3-9813799-3-8 .
- The mirror cabinet of the Würzburg Residence. Real Verlag Würzburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-429-03654-6 .
- The mural in the Würzburg town hall. City of Würzburg, 1987, ISBN 3-9800364-8-0 .
- Hanswernfried Muth : The painter Wolfgang Lenz (= Mainfränkische Hefte No. 64). Wuerzburg 1976.
- Hanswernfried Muth: Wolfgang Lenz (= special publication by the Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte No. 10). Würzburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-87717-710-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Lenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfgang Lenz in Würzburg.Wiki, with work examples
- Portrait of Wolfgang Lenz by Heiner Dikreiter, 1952
- Creator of fantastic worlds - Wolfgang Lenz is dead . Obituary in the Main-Post from January 6, 2014
Notes and individual references
- ↑ See also the implementation as record cover .
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lenz, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st of January 2014 |