Walter Werneburg was a German artist. He was mainly known for his very colourful artist prints and the deep symbolism of his paintings. From 1936 to 1939 he educated as a painter in Mühlhausen / Thuringia. Walter Werneburg studied at KunstgewerbeschuleErfurt from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1951 at Landesschule für Angewandte Kunst in Erfurt. He worked as an art teacher from 1951 to 1959 and as a lecturer at Pädagogischen Hochschule Erfurt, a teachers' training college which became the Faculty of Education at the University of Erfurt after German reunification. From 1964 to 1965 he graduated external studies at the University of Leipzig. In his early works Walter Werneburg was engaged in instantaneous representation of nature. Otto Knöpfer was his tutor and Otto Paetz ranks among his inspirers. He convinced by his landscape watercolours. Next to others, Werneburg managed the students education of gravure printing at Pädagogischen Hochschule. This reflected in his own artistic work. In varying design he experienced this technique using the remedy of contrast of light and black. He overreached linearity and performed diverse possibilities of colour printing. In the year 1979 an artistic collaboration between Walter Werneburg and his son, the poet Joachim Werneburg, developed. A comprehensive graphic and poetic work was created, that – generally spoken – issues the position of man in cosmos, his relationship to stones, plants and the world of animals. In other artistic cycles the early history of Middle Europe was picked out as a central theme based on archaeological material. Until 1995 Walter Werneburg created thirty-one cycles of artist prints. Those works of Walter and Joachim Werneburg were completely published in the book "Die Rabenfibel". The book "Wort und geschwungene Linie" reports about this artistic collaboration. Next to own exhibitions in Ostrava, Banská Bystrica, Kolobrzeg, Torgelow, Maxhütte Unterwellenborn, Sömmerda, Eisenach, Mühlhausen, Schleusingen, Oppershausen and Erfurt he contributed to the VII. Kunstausstellung der DDR in Dresden.
Walter Werneburg. "Mein Schulweg. Ein Malbuch für Kinder von 6-8 Jahren". Bild und Heimat Verlag, Reichenbach 1963; reprint: Scidinge Hall, Tübingen 2017
Joachim Werneburg und Walter Werneburg. "Die Rabelfibel". Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2010
Joachim Werneburg. "Die Schlangenfüßige Göttin", Edition Arnshaugk, München 2009
Joachim Werneburg. "Das Kupferbergwerk. Fragmente von 1977 bis 1989", Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2011
Joachim Werneburg. "Thüringer Meer", Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2012
Joachim Werneburg. "Notizen auf der Felswand. Ausden Jahren 1990 bis 1995", Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2016
Joachim Werneburg. "Die Reise nach Südost", Scidinge Hall, Tübingen 2017
Literature
Gerhard Bondzin : "VII. Kunstausstellung der DDR". Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR, Dresden 1972
Helga Mäder: "Kupferberg zu Ilmenau. Ein modernes Märchen?" ERNA W., Erfurt, 1994
Rudolf Kober: "Rede zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung Walter Werneburgs anlässlich seines 75. Geburtstages im Erfurter Rathaus am 3. Juni 1997"
Jürgen Winter: "Zwischen Wald und Welt: Der Kunstraum Thüringen im 20. Jahrhundert". F. W. Cordier, Heiligenstadt 2010
Joachim Werneburg. "Wort und geschwungene Linie - Aufzeichnungen über die künstlerische Zusammenarbeit mit Walter Werneburg". Scidinge Hall, Zürich 2010
Helmut Roewer: "Bücher von Vater und Sohn". In: "Das Lindenblatt. Jahresschrift für Schöne Literatur" 2014
