
„The moment is indefinite, the yardsticks become fluid. In my display-paintings, I have discovered a form of artistic expression
for this present-day phenomenon, a possibility that did not previously exist in the fine arts.”
Winfried Wolk
Art in museums and public collections (extract)
Art collection of German parliament (Bundestag)
Art collection of Deutsche Bank
Art collection of NDR (Hamburg)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias (Spain)
National Gallery of Slovakian republic (Bratislava)
Art collection of library Appenrade (Denmark)
Museum of fine arts, Leipzig
Art collection of Sparkasse Hildesheim
Mart Rovereto (Italy)
Awards (extract)
Design award of Mecklenburg-Lower Pomerania , 2000
Art award of DAG (German Office Workers' Trade Union), 1993
Bronze medal of international book art at iba Leipzig, 1989
Art award of German Democratic Republic (DDR), 1988
Most beautiful book of the year, 1987
Winfried Wolk belongs to the first generation of students of the School of Leipzig. His teachers were the professors Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer and Werner Tübke, with whom he studied graphics and painting at the Leipzig High School of Graphics and the Art of the Book. Wolk became well known in Germany and abroad through many exhibitions and his work was honored with a number of awards.
Always keen on technical experiments, Wolk is not only brilliant as a draftsman and a painter but is also a master of such different graphic techniques as etching, lithography and silk-screen printing. He has designed and illustrated books, and has also created large-format stained glass compositions and numerous ceramic reliefs for public buildings.
Winfried Wolk has been creatively engaged with digital media since 1992. With his display-paintings, he has succeeded in combining traditional painting's surface juxtaposition of the elements of a picture with the possibility of time sequence offered by today's media art.
Publications
„On Behaviour in Border Areas – Between Successes and Failures”
(Autobiographical Impressions)
Kerber Verlag 2014, 208 pages, with 23 colored and 24 b/w illustrations
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„Uncertain journeys into the unknown – Travel images from India and Nepal”
Kerber Verlag 2012, 160 pages, with 25 color and 50 b/w illustrations
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„Between Carnival and Ash Wednesday”
Painting, drawing and graphics
Images from three decades
Kerber Verlag 2011, 224 pages, with 112 color and 67 b/w illustrations
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