Wolfgang Niesner

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Wolfgang Niesner (born December 18, 1925 in Freudenthal , Czechoslovakia , † April 23, 1994 in Munich ) was a German draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Wolfgang Niesner studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1942 to 1944 and then did military service. After being captured by the Soviet Union and losing his homeland, he settled in Lower Bavaria in 1946 and moved to Munich in 1950, where he worked as a freelance graphic designer and participated in exhibitions. In 1953 he and his friend Ernst Kößlinger traveled through Italy by bicycle. Journeys on which he collected motifs for his prints also took him to France, Ireland and Canada. In 1970 Niesner moved to the Neuperlach district in Munich , which inspired him to create numerous critical pictures about living in modern test- tube cities. Since 1950 he has been a member of the Association for Original Etchings from 1975 to 1981 as its chairman. He died suddenly as a result of an operation.

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Wolfgang Niesner observed his surroundings in drawings just as intensively as he created images from imagination. All of this served as the starting material for his prints, for which he preferred unusual techniques such as copper engraving and mezzotint in his time . Next time satires created in silhouette . Extensive work complexes are in the State Graphic Collection in Munich and in the MEWO art gallery in Memmingen .

"By definition I am not a painter who works with a brush and paint on canvas, but with a triangular metal scraper, polishing steel and black on copper, so a 'black painter'"

Independent publications (selection)

  • Wolfgang Niesner (1925-1994). Prints, drawings, paper cutouts, ed. by Friederike Niesner, exhibition catalog for the Association for Original Etching, Munich 1995
  • Matthias Arnold, Wolfgang Niesner. The graphic work , artist monographs vol. 9, Memmingen: Edition Curt Visel 2002, ISBN 3-922406-98-X
  • Wolfgang Niesner, headjoints. Me, visages, grimaces, grotesques, grimaces, snouts, ed. by Joseph Kiermeier-Debre and Fritz Franz Vogel on the occasion of the exhibition at the MEWO-Kunsthalle, Cologne: Böhlau Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20441-9
  • Sleek. Paper cuts by Wolfgang Niesner , ed. by Friederike Niesner, Munich: Verlag August Dreesbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-944334-39-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vigil of a piercing black painter, quoted from: Wolfgang Niesner (1925–1994). Prints, drawings, silhouettes, Munich 1995, without pages.