Werner self-portrait 1956
Fritz Eberhard Werner (8 August 1924 – 23 September 2002) was a German artist and
landscapist.
Life
Eberhard Werner was born in
Glogau/
Schlesien
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
, the son of Friedrich Werner, a newspaper publisher and printer. After his battlefield injury that stemmed from the
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
was cured, he became a teacher in the
GDR in Gransee and studied Art in
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...
.
[Eberhard Werner's online gallery: Biography](_blank)
Retrieved July 2010
Although he was quite successful as an artist, he left the GDR in 1959 due to political-artistic restrictions.
Werner was reluctant to accept the commercialization of art.
He died in
Lübbecke
Lübbecke (; wep, Lübke) is a town in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany. This former county town lies on the northern slopes of the Wiehen Hills (''Wiehengebirge'') and has around 26,000 inhabitants. The town is part of distri ...
.
Gallery of selected works
Image:Oel Tempera-Violette Margeriten im Stillleben-oJ-.jpg,
Image:Oel-Haus mit Pforte.jpg,
Image:Oel-Inge und Eberhard abstrakt.jpg,
Image:Oel-Birken-in-Abendsonne-.jpg,
Image:Gransee-Eberhard-Werner-1954-oelbild.jpg,
Image:Blick auf Gransee-Eberhard Werner-CH.jpg,
References
External links
Artist Eberhard WernerEberhard Werner's online galleryEberhard Werner: Art in public IEberhard Werner: Art in public II
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German artists
People from Głogów
Artists from the Province of Silesia
1924 births
2002 deaths
German military personnel of World War II
