Klaus Rudolf Werhand
Klaus Rudolf Werhand ( born December 4, 1938 in Neuwied am Rhein, Rhineland -Palatinate, † March 20, 2009 ) was a German blacksmith and sculptor, especially in the area of Metallbildnerei.
Family
Werhand came from an old craftsman family from Niederbieber and was the son of the plumber and electrician Master Peter Werhand and the master tailor Werhand Helene, née Neumann. He married in 1960 Renate Kuhn ( born October 3, 1939 in Neuwied ), daughter of the locksmith and racer Hermann Kuhn, and his wife Helma Gondolo. From this marriage the daughter Susanne and son Martin Werhand come. The son studied German and took the profession of the publisher.
Career
Klaus Rudolf Werhand completed after school in our own family an apprenticeship as a plumber and electrician. In 1959 he went to the Bundeswehr and made there in the Air Force until 1964, training as aircraft cell construction mechanic. In 1965 he passed his master's examination in plumber and electrician crafts and then worked from 1965 to 1970 with his older brother Dietrich Werhand, who extended the family business founded by his father in 1939 Werhand company into a medium industry as GmbH & Co..
The age of 14 began Werhand repousse in copper manufacture. In 1970 he finally started his own business as a metal sculptor. He learned his craft among others, an artist in Kaufbeuren and was the last student of the great art blacksmith Carl Wyland in Cologne, where he studied the intricacies of the art blacksmithing. Carl Wyland died at an old age a few years later in 1972 in his hometown.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he has had numerous exhibitions of copper repousse, including Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, as well as an exhibition at the Koblenz Chamber of Crafts, the photographer Herbert Gauls documented in 1971.
1979 consecrated the city of Neuwied a created by the artist Klaus Rudolf Werhand fountain at the Luis course. At the beginning of the 1980s, the Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Wied turned with the order for the production of wrought iron lamps at the electoral castle Neuwied Werhand.
Klaus Rudolf Werhand made in the course of his life from the materials copper, brass, bronze, aluminum and steel in addition to contracts for the public sector also numerous metal sculptures and other art crafts. Among them: Fireplace aprons, door panels, sculptures, numerous paintings and engravings, among other themes by Albrecht Dürer, coat of arms, lights, reliefs and portraits as well as hand-forged window bars, stair railings, candle holders, lamps and various art objects.
Werhand was registered since 1970 Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists of Rhineland Palatinate.
For health reasons, Klaus Rudolf Werhand the mid-1990s had to retire from his job as a blacksmith. He died on 20 March 2009 at the age of 70 after a long illness in his home town of Neuwied.
Exhibitions (selection)
Works
Ironwork
Werhand created a complex sculptural and artistic work and has created a variety of works in a public mission. His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and placed in the public.
- Fountain Klaus Rudolf Werhand fountain in the city of Neuwied 1979 ( Lange Straße 143, 56564 Neuwied )
- Preparation of a Warrior's Honor Males in copper
- Production of wrought iron lamps at the electoral castle Neuwied early 1980s
Reception
" The work of art whose execution is transferred, dating from Neuwied and multi-award winning metal sculptor Klaus Rudolf Werhand in Melsbach was a well, from 180 linear meters and about seven hundred pounds heavy, hand-forged copper tape. After the wells in 1971 was artfully crafted, it would be another eight years before he finally found his place on the Luis course. Since the days when Neuwied staged his great dike town festival, he now enriched as often admired gem downtown. The kupfernde fountains, towering its almost delicate cascade forms at the parish road opposite the post office round four meters and its illuminated water column in the dark eye-catcher. "