Werner Stötzer

Werner Stötzer
Werner Stötzer (2006)
Born	2 April 1931 Sonneberg, Germany
Died	22 July 2010 Altlangsow, Germany
Occupation	Sculptor
Spouse(s)
Children	1 son

Werner Stötzer (born Sonneberg 2 April 1931: died Altlangsow 22 July 2010) was a German Artist and Sculptor. For the last three decades of his life he lived and worked in Altlangsow (administratively part of Seelow) in the marshy Oderbruch region of Brandenburg.

After a training as a Ceramics modeller at the in Sonneberg, Stötzer moved on to study between 1949 and 1951 at the Grand Ducal Arts Academy in Weimar, where his teachers included Heinrich Domke, Hans van Breek and Siegfried Tschiersky. Because of a reorganisation at the Weimar academy he then transferred to Dresden where he continued his studies at the city's Academy of Fine Arts from 1951 till 1953, taught by and Walter Arnold. Between 1954 and 1958 her was a "Master Schoolman" (Meisterschüler) with Gustav Seitz at the Berlin Academy of Arts where contemporaries included , Harald Metzkes and the painter . He formed lifelong friendships with the first two of these three. On concluding of his time as a Master Schoolman he embarked on a career as a freelance artist.

In 1974 he worked with Konrad Wolf on the tragicomedy film , himself taking a small cameo role as the town mayor.

Werner Stötzer also worked as a teacher. From 1975 till 1978 he was a guest lecturer at the , and between 1987 and 1990 he held a teaching professorship at the East German Arts Academy. From 1978 he was employed at the Berlin Arts Academy where he served as Vice-president from 1990-1993. and where he personally mentored a number of younger artists. His own "Master Schoolmen" from this period included Horst Engelhardt, Berndt Wilde, (1989-1992) and Mark Lammert.