Walter Arnold (German sculptor)
Walter Arnold | |
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German Democratic Republic (East Germany) | |
| Nationality | German |
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| Political party | SED |
Walter Arnold (27 August 1909 – 11 July 1979) was a German stonemason and sculptor. Between 1957 and 1964 he was the president of the Association of Visual Artists (DDRA / Verband Bildender Künstler) in East Germany.[1]
Life
Early years
Walter Arnold was the son of a
Academic progress
1946 was also the year in which Walter Arnold started to teach at the
Political progress
Arnold became a member of the East German Academy of Culture in 1952. From 1952 to 1962 he was a Candidate for the Central Committee of The Party, being a member of it from 1958 till 1961.
In 1958 he succeeded Otto Nagel as the president of the country's Association of Visual Artists (DDRA / Verband Bildender Künstler).[1] Arnold retained this position till 1964.
Last things
Walter Arnold died in 1979 in Dresden, where he is buried, now with his wife Maria, in the Loschwitz Cemetery, under an image created by himself.[4]
Some works
in bronze
- Wäscherin, 1947
- Bauarbeiter, 1947
- Tanzpause, 1947
- ein frühes Denkmal für Opfer des Faschismus auf dem Südfriedhof (Leipzig) (an early memorial for victims of Fascism at the Southern Cemetery, Leipzig), 1949
- Jugend – Baumeister der DDR, 1951: Ausgangspunkt für den ersten Nationalpreis der DDR an einen Künstler
- Traktoristin (woman driving a tractor), 1953
- Befreite Arbeit – schöneres Leben (Liberating work – beautiful life), 1961
- Ernst-Thälmann-Denkmal in Stralsund, 1962
- Bäuerin – (Farmer's wife) Year unknown, exhibited in front of the Agricultural Museum at Wandlitz from 1975 till 2008: now in storage
- Clara Zetkin Memorial in Leipzig, 1967 in the Leipzig Johanna Park (formerly the Clara Zetkin Park)
wood carvings
- Das Grauen 1934
- Das Leid 1946: aus einer gespaltenen Bohle gearbeitet, erinnert an seine Kriegsgefangenschaft
- Vietnam klagt an (Viet Nam complains), 1966
- Vorwärts und nicht vergessen – die Solidarität (Onwards and don't forget – Solidarity), 1967
- Venceremos (We shall overcome), 1974
- Anette
- Es gibt kein fremdes Leid
portrait-busts and statuettes
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1947 im Leipziger Musikviertel
- Carl Maria von Weber, 1952
- Ernst Thälmann, 1956[4]
- Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, 1957
- Otto Buchwitz, 1962
in memoriam
- Inge, 1949
- Badende, 1961
- Aphrodite, 1971
References
- ^ a b c d e Bernd-Rainer Barth. "Arnold, Walter * 27.8.1909, † 11.7.1979:Bildhauer, Präsident des Verbandes Bildender Künstler". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ^ a b c Peter H. Feist: Anmut und Appell; Beitrag zum 100. Geburtstag von Walter Arnold in der Tageszeitung Neues Deutschland vom 27. August 2009
- ^ "Reinhard Dietrich". Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ^ The name of the sculpture by the tomb of Walter and Maria Arnold is called "Es gibt kein fremdes Leid" (literally "There is no suffering from without").
External links
Literature by and about Walter Arnold in the German National Library catalogue
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