Prof. Heinz Werner, Tanzendes Mädchen
A girl in a long dress with a wreath of blossoms on her head, seeming to ...

Prof. Heinz Werner, Tanzendes Mädchen
A girl in a long dress with a wreath of blossoms on her head, seeming to float, looking joyfully at the viewer, mixed media (charcoal, fibre pen and opaque colours) on light grey, light cardboard, c. 1980, mounted on hardboard with adhesive tape, stamped on the back of the hardboard "Heinz Werner, Neucoswiger Str. 9, 8252 Coswig", sheet measures c. 97 x 75 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter, graphic artist and porcelain artist (1928 Coswig to 2019 Coswig), 1943-53 apprenticeship as porcelain painter, from 1957 decorator at the Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen, 1959-62 guest student at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK) Dresden, from 1960 member of the collective for artistic development with Peter Strang and Ludwig Zepner, 1967-71 external studies at the HfBK Dresden with Rudolf Bergander and Jutta Damme, Werner developed more than 100 decorations, among them Blue Orchid on Branch, 1001 Nights and Hunter's Latin, also design of murals made of Meissen porcelain, 1973 Art Award of the GDR, from 1978 professor at the Burg Giebichenstein College of Art and Design in Halle, 2009 appointed honorary citizen of Coswig. Source: Eisold "Künstler in der DDR" and Wikipedia.