Klaus Rudolf Werhand
| Klaus Rudolf Werhand | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 December 1938 Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Nazi Germany |
| Died | 20 March 2009 (aged 70) Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Occupation | Blacksmith |
Klaus Rudolf Werhand (4 December 1938 – 20 March 2009) was a metalsmith and a coppersmith from Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Werhand was born into a well-established family of craftsmen in Niederbieber and the son of Master Peter Griffin, a plumber and electrician, and Helene Werhand (née Neumann), a master tailor. In 1960, he married Renate Kuhn (born on 3 October 1939 in Neuwied), the daughter of Hermann Kuhn, a locksmith and racer. Werhand and Kuhn had two children: a daughter, Susanne, and a son, Martin Werhand. Martin Werhand is the founder of the publishing house Martin Werhand Verlag, which specializes in fiction.
After leaving school, Klaus Rudolf Werhand trained to become a plumber in the family business. In 1959, he joined the Bundeswehr, the unified armed forces of Germany, where he trained as a mechanic aircraft-cell constructor. In 1965, he received his diploma of master craftsman as a plumber and electrician and began working with his older brother Dietrich Werhand, the head of the family business founded by their father in 1939. His older brother Dietrich grew the Werhand Company into a medium-sized enterprise as a Kommanditgesellschaft.
At the age of 14, Werhand began his first works in copper manufacturing. In 1970 he finally started his own business as a metal sculptor. He learned his craft from, among others, an artist in Kaufbeuren. Werhand was the last student of the German blacksmith Carl Wyland in Cologne, where he studied the intricacies of the art of blacksmithing.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Werhand had numerous exhibitions of copper repoussé, including in the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich as well as at the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts (Handwerkskammer Koblenz), which was documented by the German photographer Herbert Gauls.
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