Jürgen Wittdorf

Jürgen Wittdorf was born in Karlsruhe in 1932. During the Nazi regime, he spent his school years in Königsberg, where his father worked as an insurance director. His parents supported his love of drawing, and his grandfather was a professor at the Dresden School of Applied Arts. At the end of the war, he fled to Stollberg in the Ore Mountains and endured hardships in the first years after the war. After the tenth grade, Jürgen Wittdorf finished school. Wittdorf took his first drawing class in Stollberg with Walter Schurig in 1950. He then studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1952 to 1957. In 1957, he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). From 1959 to 1964, Wittdorf taught at the Leipzig Adult Education Center and worked as an assistant at the Institute for Art Education at Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Since 1967, Jürgen Wittdorf lived in Berlin, where he died on December 2, 2018.