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.

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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 (department of Education of Art). 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.