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Walter Arnold (German sculptor)

German sculptor and politician

Walter Arnold (27 August – 11 July ) was a German stonemason and sculptor.

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Between and 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 LeipzigStonemason.[2] He trained between and in wood carving and stone sculpture.[2] Between and he studied the shapes of sculptures and ceramics under Alfred Thiele at the School of Craftsmanship at Leipzig.

After finishing his studies he worked as an assistant to Thiele until , after which he worked as a freelance artist, supporting himself with contract work, including grave stone business and stonework renovation jobs.

He was a soldier during the war, ending up in a prison campjust outsideBad Kreuznach.[2] Returning home to Leipzig, in November he joined what was shortly to become ruling SED (party)[1] of what was in the process of becoming the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

Academic progress

was also the year in which Walter Arnold started to teach at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.[1] In he accepted an invitation to move to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he worked as a professor until [1] His students included Reinhard Dietrich.[3] He then returned to the Academy in Leipzig where he was designated an emeritus professor in , but continued to give master classes.

Political progress

Arnold became a member of the East German Academy of Culture in From to he was a Candidate for the Central Committee of The Party, being a member of it from till

In 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

Last things

Walter Arnold died in 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,
  • Bauarbeiter,
  • Tanzpause,
  • An early Memorial to the victims of Fascism at the Southern Cemetery, Leipzig,
  • Jugend – Baumeister der DDR, Ausgangspunkt für den ersten Nationalpreis der DDR an einen Künstler
  • Traktoristin (woman driving a tractor),
  • Befreite Arbeit – schöneres Leben (Liberating work – lovely life),
  • Ernst-Thälmann-Denkmal in Stralsund,
  • Bäuerin – (Farmer's wife) Year unknown, exhibited in front of the Agricultural Museum at Wandlitz from till now in storage
  • Clara Zetkin Memorial in Leipzig, in the Leipzig Johanna Park (formerly the Clara Zetkin Park)

wood carvings

  • Das Grauen
  • Das Leid aus einer gespaltenen Bohle gearbeitet, erinnert an seine Kriegsgefangenschaft
  • Vietnam klagt an (Viet Nam complains),
  • Vorwärts und nicht vergessen – die Solidarität (Onwards and don't forget – Solidarity),
  • Venceremos (We shall overcome),
  • Anette
  • Es gibt kein fremdes Leid

portrait-busts and statuettes

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, im Leipziger Musikviertel
  • Carl Maria von Weber,
  • Ernst Thälmann, [4]
  • Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg,
  • Otto Buchwitz,

in memoriam

  • Inge,
  • Badende,
  • Aphrodite,

References

External links

Literature by and about Walter Arnold in the German National Library catalogue