{"id":28092,"date":"2023-05-31T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/?page_id=28092"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:47:11","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/en\/gallery-artists\/waldemar-grzimek\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1918<\/td>born in Rastenburg, grew up in Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
1937<\/td>Apprenticeship as a stonemason at the Philipp Holzmann company<\/td><\/tr>
1937-1941<\/td>Studies of Sculpture at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, with Prof. Wilhelm Gerstel<\/td><\/tr>
1941<\/td>Conscription to military service in the navy<\/td><\/tr>
1946-1948<\/td>Lectureship at the Burg Giebichenstein, Halle-Saale<\/td><\/tr>
1948-1951<\/td>Professorship for Plastic arts at the Berlin University of Fine Arts<\/td><\/tr>
1950<\/td>Draft for Th\u00e4lmann monument in Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
1952<\/td>Study trip to the Soviet Union<\/td><\/tr>
1952-1957<\/td>Working as a freelance sculptor in West Berlin
Member of the Association of Visual Artists in Germany<\/td><\/tr>
1954-1958<\/td>Head of the Berlin District Association of the Association of Visual Artists in Germany<\/td><\/tr>
1956<\/td>Public dispute about the Heine monument<\/td><\/tr>
1957-1961<\/td>Professorship at the University of Fine and Applied Arts, Berlin-Wei\u00dfensee<\/td><\/tr>
1961<\/td>Member of the Berlin Academy of Arts
Moving to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance<\/td><\/tr>
1968<\/td>Professorship for Sculpting at the Darmstadt University of Technology<\/td><\/tr>
1984<\/td>died in Berlin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Awards and grants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1984<\/td>Award of the Bremen Sculpture Prize<\/td><\/tr>
1981<\/td>1st award in the competition „Fountain at Wittenbergplatz (Berlin)“<\/td><\/tr>
1959<\/td>Award of the National Prize of the GDR<\/td><\/tr>
1942-1943<\/td>Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo<\/td><\/tr>
1931<\/td>1st and 2nd prize in the exhibition „Child and Dog“<\/td><\/tr>
1930<\/td>Award at a Youth art competition of the Berlin Zoo<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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