Volker Stelzmann - Artist Info

About Volker Stelzmann

  • Biography

    A native of Dresden, Volker Stelzmann quit his job as a precision engineer in 1963 to study at the Hochschule für Grafik in Leipzig, where he taught since the mid-1970s. He was a member of the board of the Berufsverbandes Bildender Künstler of the GDR.

    He emigrated to West Germany in 1986 and started working as a professor at the Hochschule der Künste in West Berlin. Center of his artistic creativity are multi-figure panel paintings. Several international and national exhibitions were devoted to the artist and he was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1987. (tm)

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