Werner Stötzer
curriculum vitae
| 1931 | born in Sonneberg |
| 1946-1948 | Training as a ceramic modeller |
| 1949-1951 | Studied at the Hochschule für Baukunst und Bildende Künste in Weimar under Heinrich Domke, Hans van Breek and Siegfried Tschiersky |
| 1951-1953 | Studied at the Dresden Academy under Eugen Hoffmann and Walter Arnold |
| 1954-1958 | Master student at the Akademie der Künste of the GDR (East Berlin) under Gustav Seitz |
| 1955/1957/1958 | Study trips to Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, China, Hungary, Austria, Poland and Switzerland |
| since then, working as a freelance artist | |
| 1975 | Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis |
| 1975-1978 | Guest lecturer at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee |
| 1977 | National Prize of the GDR |
| 1978 | Member of the Akademie der Künste of the GDR |
| 1987-1990 | Professorship at the Akademie der Künste of the GDR |
| 1990-1993 | Vice-President of the Akademie der Künste |
| 1994 | Ernst-Rietschel-Kunstpreis for Sculpture |
| 2008 | Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis |
| 2009 | Honorary citizenship of the town of Seelow |
| 2010 | died in Altlangsow |
