Wolfgang Siemens

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Work by Wolfgang Siemens
Triptych - Fruit de Mer I
Triptych - Fruit de Mer I; Acrylic and oil on canvas; 1998-1999; Dimensions: 200 × 120/150/120 cm
TRIPTYCHON LE FRUIT DE MER I - 1998 - 1999
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS
- FISH (RIGHT)
- LOBSTER (CENTER)
- OYSTER (LEFT)
200x120 / 150/120 CM
The grave of Wolfgang Siemens.jpg
Wolfgang Siemens' grave.jpg
WOLFGANG SIEMENS'S BURIAL IN THE FUNERAL GARDEN PÜTZ-ROTH, BERGISCH GLADBACH

Wolfgang Siemens (born February 4, 1945 in Pößneck , Thuringia ; † February 29, 2016 in Benidorm ) was a German painter .

Life

In 1961, Siemens began studying painting at the Cologne Werkschulen with Friedrich Vordemberge and later with Karl Marx, where he was appointed master student of Friedrich Vordemberge. Siemens is one of the well-known graduates of the Cologne factory schools .

In 1970, he took part in an exhibition at the Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle in Cologne and made him known to a wider audience. From 1969 to 1979 Siemens also taught as an art teacher at a high school in Cologne. From 1979 he turned exclusively to painting. In 1980 he had a solo exhibition in New York . Until 1984 he lived with short breaks in Paris , southern France and Morocco .

The Federal Association of Visual Artists organized a retrospective exhibition for him in 1984 . In 1986, Siemens got into a personal and artistic crisis. The change in the milieu and the death of his father made him doubt the meaning of painting and art. He destroyed all paintings in his possession.

From 1990 Siemens turned back to painting. Since then, his paintings and gouaches have been created slowly and in bursts . He last lived in Pulheim .

Siemens work "Freundinnen" (1972) can be borrowed from the Artothek Cologne - Room for Young Art.

literature

  • Georgios O. Safiriou: SIEMENS Der Maler / The Painter . WISON Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-87951-163-2
  • Wolfgang Siemens: Painting 1984 . Cologne 1984,
  • HG Saur: Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Arts, Volume II, year 2005, p. 759.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wolfgang-siemens.com/bio.htm accessed on April 5, 2017
  2. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger, October 29/30, 2016
  3. ↑ artothek - space for young art: (1514 documents). Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Siemens, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 2016
Place of death Benidorm