Werner Stötzer

Werner Stötzer (born Sonneberg 2 April 1931, died Altlangsow 22 July 2010) was a German artist and sculptor. For the last three decades of his life he lived and worked in Altlangsow (administratively part of Seelow) in the marshy Oderbruch region of Brandenburg.

Life After training as a ceramics modeller at the Vocational Arts Academy in Sonneberg, taught by Eugen Hoffmann and Walter Arnold. Between 1954 and 1958 her was a "Master Schoolman" (Meisterschüler) with Gustav Seitz at the Berlin Academy of Arts

Werner Stötzer also worked as a teacher. From 1975 to 1978 he was a guest lecturer at the Berlin-Weißensee High Arts Academy, and between 1987 and 1990 he held a teaching professorship at the East German Arts Academy. From 1978 he was employed at the Berlin Arts Academy where he served as Vice-president from 1990-1993. "What lies within me is neither Heaven nor Hell. It is humanity." „Mein Inhalt ist weder der Himmel noch die Hölle, es ist der Mensch.“ Werner Stötzer 2010

Awards and honours 1962 Will Lammert Prize from the (East) German Academy of Arts 1975 Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the (East) German Academy of Arts 1977 National Prize of East Germany 1986 National Prize of East Germany 1994 Ernst Rietschel Arts Prize for Sculpture 2008 Brandenburg Arts Prize 2009 Honorary citizenship of the Town of Seelow

Selected works 1956 Sitzender Junge, Bronze 1959/60 Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters und Lesender Arbeiter in the courtyard of the Berlin State Library, Unter den Linden, Bronzerelief 1963 Portrait of Gerhard Kettner, Bronze bust 1965 Grieving women, Marble relief 1966-1968 Bronze door for the Our Lady Monastery, Magdeburg 1967 Babi Jar, Relief and Lithography 1970 Draft Bronze door for the St Thomas's Church in Erfurt 1972 Auschwitz group, Marble 1980 Stage sets and mask for Electra at the German Theatre, Berlin 1981 Große Sitzende (Internationales Bildhauersymposion Formen für Europa – Formen aus Stein in Syke) 1982–84 Saale and Werra, Sculpture Park, Magdeburg 1985-86 Marble Relief wall Alte Welt for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin-Mitte 1986–87 Mother and child 1988 Gypsey woman from Marzahn 1995 Torso (für Eberhard Roters) 1996 Fliehende (Flying) 1996 Undine 2002 Liegende (reclining) 2010 Torso, leicht gedreht (Torso, turned slightly)

Selected exhibitions 1960 Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, National Gallery (Berlin) 1963 Magdeburg, Kulturhistorisches Museum (zusammen mit Gerhard Kettner) 1964 Altenburg, Greifswald, Stralsund, Erfurt 1965 Wien, Galerie "ZB" (zusammen mit Gerhard Kettner) 1970 Potsdam 1972 Leipzig, Dresden 1979 Rostock, Galerie am Boulevard 1982 Ravensburg 1986 Bremen, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus 1995 Zürich, World Trade Center 1996 Lago Maggiore, Via Gambarone 1998 Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Schwind 1999 Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum 2000 Düsseldorf, Galerie Beethovenstraße 2001 Berlin, Galerie Leo Coppi 2002 Berlin, galerie+edition refugium 2003 Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Schwind 2004 Bremen, „Sich dem Stein stellen“, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus 2005 Dresden, Galerie Beyer 2005 Leipzig, Galerie Schwind 2006 Berlin, Academy of Arts (Berlin), „Märkische Steine“ 2006 Dresden, Leonhardi-Museum, „Wegzeichen“ 2006 Berlin, Galerie LEO.COPPI 2009 Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Schwind 2013 Hamburg, Open-Air-Schau Figur als Widerstand am Jungfernstieg (zusammen mit Alfred Hrdlicka and Bernd Stöcker)