Curt Querner
Curt Querner loves the changing moods and whims of nature, especially the month of March, which he calls the »winter killer«. He lends every season, every portrait and every nude painting powerful, earthy tones with bright counterpoints. Querner described his understanding of truthful realism in painting in his diary in 1946 as follows: »The essential! Seeing things as they really are and taking them into account.«
curriculum vitae
| 1904 | born on the 7th of April in Börnchen near Freital |
| 1918 | apprenticeship as a locksmith, attends vocational school in the evening |
| first attempts at drawing and aquarelle painting | |
| 1925 | acquaintance with the painter Hermann Lange from Freital, encouragement to study at the Dresden Academy of Art |
| 1926 | student at the Dresden Academy of Art under Richard Müller and Hermann Dittrich |
| 1927 | beginning of the friendship with Wilhelm Dodel |
| 1928/29 | travels to Prague, Vienna, southern Germany, visit to the Dürer exhibition at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg |
| certificates of recognition from the Dresden Academy of Art | |
| 1929/30 | working in the painting studio with Otto Dix and Richard Lührig |
| graduation from the Dresden Academy of Art | |
| 1930 | work as a freelance artist begins, joins the newly founded Dresden local group »Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler Deutschlands« (ASSO) and the KPD |
| 1932 | membership of the »Neue Dresdner Sezession« |
| 1933 | marriage to Regina Dodel, birth of daughter Yvonne |
| 1936 | travel through Franconia and Swabia to Colmar/Alsace, visit to the Isenheim Altarpiece |
| 1938 | commission to design the Dresden Air District Command in nowadays August-Bebel-Straße |
| 1939 | hike across Salzburg to Carinthia |
| 1940 | conscription for military service, also working as a painter in a construction company |
| 1943-1945 | located in Norway (Skedsmo and Kolnes) |
| 1944 | brother-in-law Wilhelm Dodel dies |
| 1945 | destruction of his studio and apartment during the bombing raids in Dresden, a large part of his early work is destroyed in the fire |
| 1945-1947 | captivity in France |
| 1949-1953 | teaching of drawing courses at the district elementary school in Dippoldiswalde |
| 1950 | design of murals in schools and public buildings |
| 1955 | mural on the Zellescher Weg hall of residence at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden |
| 1959 | Art Prize of the city of Freital |
| 1971 | Käthe-Kollwitz-Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR |
| 1972 | National Prize of the GDR II. Class |
| 1974 | film about Querner made by GDR television on the occasion of his 70th birthday |
| 1976 | died on the 10th of March in Kreischa |
further exhibitions
| 1931 | Galerie Sandel, Dresden |
| 1940 | Kunsthütte Chemnitz (with Johannes Ufer and Hans Spank) |
| 1948 | Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum, Freiberg: »3. Ausstellung Erzgebirgischer Kuenstler 1948« (participation) |
| 1956/1957 | Haus der Heimat, Schloss Burgk, Freital (with Hans Koernig, Rolf Krause, Fritz Troeger and Willy Wolff) |
| 1964 | Kulturhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg |
| 1969 | Kunstausstellung Kuehl, Dresden (with Erich Hering) |
| 1972 | Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden |
| 1973 | Galerie Zentralbuchhandlung, Wien |
| 1974 | Staatliches Museum Schwerin: »Ausstellung anlaesslich seines 70. Geburtstages« |
| Haus der Heimat, Schloss Burgk, Freital | |
| 1978 | Galerie Nord, Dresden |
| 1979/1980 | Kuenstlerhaus Wien |
| 1982 | Haus der Kultur und Bildung, Neubrandenburg |
| 1983 | Galerie A, Berlin/Ost |
| 1984 | Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig |
| Galerie Raehnitzgasse, Dresden | |
| 1986 | Centre Culturel de la R.D.A., Paris |
| 1987 | Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung, Dresden-Rossendorf |
| 1988 | Staudenhofgalerie, Potsdam |
| 1992 | Galerie Doebele, Stuttgart (with Josef Hegenbarth, Hans Theo Richter, Wilhelm Rudolph, Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein and Paul Wilhelm) |
| 1996 | Kunsthandel & Edition Fischer, Berlin |
| 1999 | Galerie BASF, Schwarzheide |
| Otto-Dix-Haus, Gera | |
| Otto-Dix-Haus, Hemmenhofen | |
| 2000 | Museum Osterzgebirgsgalerie, Schloss Dippoldiswalde |
| 2004 | Kunsthandel & Edition Fischer, Berlin: »Curt Querner. Zum hundertsten Geburtstag« |
| 2009 | Kunsthandel & Edition Fischer, Berlin |
| Gemaeldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden | |
| 2005 | Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle/Saale |
| 2012 | Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden |
| 2016 | GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden: »Curt Querner. Scharf gesehen« |
| 2025 | Kunstausstellung Kuehl, Dresden (with Hans Jüchser and Ingo Kraft) |
