Jo Jastram

Joachim Jastram (4 September 1928 – 7 January 2011) was a German sculptor.

Life

Early years Jo Jastram was born in Rostock close to Germany's Baltic Sea (East Sea / Ostsee) coast. His father was a teacher. He attended the St George School in Rostock where contemporaries included Walter Kempowski. He began drawing at an early age, receiving encouragement from his teacher, the artist Thuro Balzer. Jo Jastram reached his seventeenth birthday a few months before the end of the war and was drafted into the national militia (Volksturn) which led to a period as an American prisoner of war.

Teaching In 1964 he took a teaching position at the nearby Ernst Moritz Arndt University at Greifswald. Between 1980 and 1986 he held a teaching post and a professorship at the Fine Arts Academy at Berlin-Weißensee. In the event this gave him significant involvement in the teaching of the next generation of artists, not excluding his son Michael Jastram. 2004 Wernigerode Arts prize winner