Prof. Heinz Werner, Baden am See
Woman, rising into the water of a lake, lightly impastoed painting mainly in ...

Prof. Heinz Werner, Baden am See
Woman, rising into the water of a lake, lightly impastoed painting mainly in green, oil on hardboard, c. 1970, stamped on the reverse "H. Werner, Neucoswiger Str. 8, 8252 Coswig", in need of cleaning, unframed, dimensions approx. 47 x 24.5 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter, graphic artist and porcelain artist (1928 Coswig to 2019 Coswig), 1943-53 apprenticeship as porcelain painter, from 1957 decorator at the Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen, 1959-62 guest student at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK) Dresden, from 1960 member of the collective for artistic development with Peter Strang and Ludwig Zepner, 1967-71 external studies at the HfBK Dresden with Rudolf Bergander and Jutta Damme, Werner developed more than 100 decorations, among them Blue Orchid on Branch, 1001 Nights and Hunter's Latin, also design of murals made of Meissen porcelain, 1973 Art Award of the GDR, from 1978 professor at the Burg Giebichenstein College of Art and Design in Halle, 2009 appointed honorary citizen of Coswig. Source: Eisold "Künstler in der DDR" and Wikipedia.