Walter Werneburg

Walter Werneburg (* 2 June 1922 in Oppershausen / Germany; – 16 April 1999 in Erfurt) was a German artist. He was mainly known for his very colourful artist prints and the deep symbolism of his paintings.

From 1936 to 1939 he educated as a painter in Mühlhausen / Thuringia. Walter Werneburg studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1951 at Landesschule für Angewandte Kunst in Erfurt (succeeding institute). He worked as an art teacher from 1951 to 1959 and as a lecturer at Pädagogischen Hochschule Erfurt, a teachers' training college which became the Faculty of Education at the University of Erfurt after German reunification. From 1964 to 1965 he graduated external studies at the University of Leipzig.

In his early works Walter Werneburg was engaged in instantaneous representation of nature. Otto Knöpfer was his tutor and Otto Paetz ranks among his inspirers. He convinced by his landscape watercolours. Next to others, Werneburg managed the students education of gravure printing at Pädagogischen Hochschule. This reflected in his own artistic work. In varying design he experienced this technique using the remedy of contrast of light and black. He overreached linearity and performed diverse possibilities of colour printing.

In the year 1979 an artistic collaboration between Walter Werneburg and his son, the poet Joachim Werneburg, developed. A comprehensive graphic and poetic work was created, that – generally spoken – issues the position of man in cosmos, his relationship to stones, plants and the world of animals. In other artistic cycles the early history of Middle Europe was picked out as a central theme based on archaeological material. Until 1995 Walter Werneburg created thirty-one cycles of artist prints. Those works of Walter and Joachim Werneburg were completely published in the book "Die Rabenfibel" (2010). The book "Wort und geschwungene Linie" reports about this artistic collaboration.

Next to own exhibitions in Ostrava (Czech Republic), Banská Bystrica (Slowakia), Kolobrzeg (Poland), Torgelow, Maxhütte Unterwellenborn, Sömmerda, Eisenach, Mühlhausen, Schleusingen, Oppershausen and Erfurt he contributed to the VII. Kunstausstellung der DDR in Dresden.

Graphic-cycles (choice)
  • Oppershäuser Blätter I + II (1979), (Oppershausian Folios I + II)
  • Sagenhaftes Erfurt (1980), (Fabulous Erfurt)
  • Worte Lutherisch (1982), (Lutheran Words)
  • Russischer Frühling (1984), (Russian Spring Time)
  • Hainich (1984/85), (Hainich)
  • Kupferberg zu Ilmenau (1985), (Copper Mountain of Ilmenau)
  • Rabenfibel (1986), (The Raven's Fibula)
  • Slawische Tänze (1987), (Slavian Dances)
  • Die Fahrt der Tiere (1990), (Journey of Animals)
  • Die Schlangenfüßige Göttin (1991), (Snake Footed Godness)
  • Externsteine (1993), (Externsteine)
  • Der Heilige See (1994), (The Holy Lake)
  • Mallorca (1995)

Publications
  • Walter Werneburg. "Mein Schulweg. Ein Malbuch für Kinder von 6-8 Jahren". Bild und Heimat Verlag, Reichenbach (Vogtland) 1963; reprint: Scidinge Hall, Tübingen 2017
  • Joachim Werneburg und Walter Werneburg. "Die Rabelfibel". Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2010

Publications with selected works

  • Walter Werner "Blätter aus dem Baumbachhaus", Staatliche Museen Meiningen 1985 (contains "Worte. Lutherisch")
  • Joachim Werneburg. "Die Schlangenfüßige Göttin", Edition Arnshaugk, München 2009 (contains the same named graphics cycle)
  • Joachim Werneburg. "Das Kupferbergwerk. Fragmente von 1977 bis 1989", Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2011 (contains "Kupferberg zu Ilmenau")
  • Joachim Werneburg. "Thüringer Meer", Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2012 (contains "Die Rabenfibel")
  • Joachim Werneburg. "Notizen auf der Felswand. Aus den Jahren 1990 bis 1995", Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2016 (contains "Die Externsteine")
  • Joachim Werneburg. "Die Reise nach Südost", Scidinge Hall, Tübingen 2017 (contains the same named graphics cycle: "The journey to the southeast", according to Chinese motives)

Literature
  • Gerhard Bondzin (Ed.): "VII. Kunstausstellung der DDR". Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR, Dresden 1972
  • Helga Mäder: "Kupferberg zu Ilmenau. Ein modernes Märchen?" ERNA W., Erfurt, 1994
  • Rudolf Kober: "Rede zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung Walter Werneburgs anlässlich seines 75. Geburtstages im Erfurter Rathaus am 3. Juni 1997"
  • Jürgen Winter: "Zwischen Wald und Welt: Der Kunstraum Thüringen im 20. Jahrhundert". F. W. Cordier, Heiligenstadt 2010
  • Joachim Werneburg. "Wort und geschwungene Linie - Aufzeichnungen über die künstlerische Zusammenarbeit mit Walter Werneburg". Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2010
  • Helmut Roewer: "Bücher von Vater und Sohn". In: "Das Lindenblatt. Jahresschrift für Schöne Literatur" 2014

References
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