Walter Werneburg

Who is Walter Werneburg?

Walter Werneburg was a German artist. He was mainly known for his very colourful artist prints and the deep symbolism of his paintings.

From 1936 to 1939 he educated as a painter in Mühlhausen / Thuringia. Walter Werneburg studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1951 at Landesschule für Angewandte Kunst in Erfurt. He worked as an art teacher from 1951 to 1959 and as a lecturer at Pädagogischen Hochschule Erfurt. From 1964 to 1965 he graduated external studies at the University of Leipzig.

In his early works Walter Werneburg was engaged in instantaneous representation of nature. Otto Knöpfer was his tutor and Otto Paetz ranks among his inspirers. He convinced by his landscape watercolours. Next to others, Werneburg managed the students education of gravure printing at Pädagogischen Hochschule. This reflected in his own artistic work. In varying design he experienced this technique using the remedy of contrast of light and black. He overreached linearity and performed diverse possibilities of colour printing.

In the year 1979 an artistic collaboration between Walter Werneburg and his son, the poet Joachim Werneburg, developed.