Wolfgang Mattheuer
Wolfgang Mattheuer, along with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, is one of the founders of the "Leipziger Schule". Mattheuer taught at the Academy of Visual Arts for over two decades, honing his symbolically charged pictorial narratives with meticulousness and rigor.
curriculum vitae
| 1927 | born April 7 in Reichenbach/Vogtland |
| 1941-1944 | apprenticeship as a lithographer, first artistic works created in in-company drawing courses, after completing his apprenticeship, scholarship to study commercial art in Munich, which he was unable to take up due to being called up for military service |
| 1945 | injured, taken prisoner, escaped captivity, and returned to Reichenbach |
| 1946-1947 | attendance at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Leipzig |
| 1947-1951 | studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig under Egon Pruggmayer, Walter Arnold, and Elisabeth Voigt |
| 1951-1952 | worked as a graphic designer at the “Illustrierte Rundschau” in Berlin |
| 1952 | return to Leipzig, marriage with graphic designer Ursula Neustädt |
| 1952-1956 | assistent at the HGB Leipzig |
| 1956-1965 | lecturer at the HGB Leipzig |
| 1958 | entering the SED |
| 1963 | friendship with Inge Gohrisch (Brüx) |
| 1965-1974 | lecturer at the HGB Leipzig |
| 1966 | birth of the son Richard Gohrisch (Brüx) |
| 1968 | art award of Leipzig |
| 1971 | since then sculptural works |
| 1973 | art award of the GDR |
| 1974 | resigned from teaching position at HGB Leipzig at his own request, henceforth working as a freelancer |
| 1975 | National Prize of the GDR |
| 1978 | since then member of the Akademie der Künste der DDR |
| 1984 | National Prize of the GDR for Art and Literature |
| 1985 | honorary citizenship of Reichenbach/Vogtland |
| 1988 | withdrawal from the SED |
| 1989 | active participation in the Leipzig Monday demonstrations |
| 1993 | awarded the Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2003 | member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg |
| 2004 | died on April 7 in Leipzig, posthumous award of the Medal of Honor of the City of Leipzig |
| 2006 | establishment of the Ursula Neustädt-Mattheuer and Wolfgang Mattheuer Foundation, based in Leipzig |
