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