German artist and sculptor (1931-2010)
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 in Sonneberg, Stötzer moved on to study between 1949 and 1951 at the Grand Ducal Arts Academy in Weimar, where his teachers included Heinrich Domke, Hans van Breek and Siegfried Tschiersky. Because of a reorganisation at the Weimar academy he then transferred to Dresden where he continued his studies at the city's Academy of Fine Arts from 1951 till 1953, taught by and Walter Arnold. Between 1954 and 1958 her was a "Master Schoolman" ("Meisterschüler") with Gustav Seitz at the Berlin Academy of Arts where contemporaries included , Harald Metzkes and the painter . He formed lifelong friendships with the first two of these three. On concluding his time as a Master Schoolman he embarked on a career as a freelance artist.
In 1974 he worked with Konrad Wolf on the tragicomedy film , himself taking a small cameo role as the town mayor.
Werner Stötzer also worked as a teacher. From 1975 to 1978 he was a guest lecturer at the , 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. and where he personally mentored a number of younger artists. His own "Master Schoolmen" from this period included Horst Engelhardt, Berndt Wilde, (1989-1992) and Mark Lammert.
Werner Stötzer was first married to graphic artist Renate Rauschenbach from 1961 to 1992. With their daughter Carla (*1961) they lived in their house in Berlin-Altglienicke from 1961 to 1978. After living in a succession of apartments and ateliers in Berlin and Vilmnitz (Putbus) on the Island of Rügen, he relocated to Altlangsow, some 70 km (45 miles) to the east of Berlin and (since 1945) some 20 km (12 miles) to the west of the frontier with Poland. Here, for almost thirty years, he worked, living in a former presbytery with his second wife, the sculptor . From this marriage their son Carl-Hagen Stötzer was born in 1978.
Werner Stötzer 2010
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