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Werner Tübke
* 1929 Schönebeck / Elbe |
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| 1929 | Born on July 30th in Schönebeck/Elbe as only son of a merchant family |
| 1935-45 | School attendance in Schönebeck; private drawing lessons with Karl Friedrich starting 1939/40 |
| 1945-46 | Innocently imprisoned for 10 month by Russian security forces during the occupation in East Germany |
| 1946-47 | Painting apprenticeship in Schönebeck with attendance at the Masters Program for the German Crafts in Magdeburg. Subjects in drawing and painting |
| 1947-48 | Final year in Schönebeck and high school exam (Abitur) |
| 1948-49 | Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig (among others with Elisabeth Voigt, Walter Arnold, Ernst Hassebrauk) |
| 1950-52 | Studies in Art and Psychology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald; State examination in Art |
| 1952-54 | Scientific Assistant in the Department of Visual Arts, Zentralhaus für Laienkunst, Leipzig; 1954 Joined the Society of Visual Arts (German Democratic Republic) and debut exhibition |
| 1955-57 | Assistant, in 1956 Associate Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig |
| 1957 | Suspension from work for political reasons |
| 1958 | Contest winner for the design of several wall paintings in the hotel "Astoria", Leipzig on the subject "Five Continents" |
| 1959-61 | Began participation in the Executive Art Committees in Leipzig; first honors received for his professional achievements |
| 1961-1962 | Studies in the former Soviet Union (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Middle Asia, Caucasus) |
| 1962 | Re-hired as Associate Professor at the University of Art in Leipzig; 1964 Appointment to Docent |
| 1965-67 | Painting sequel "Dr. jur. Schulze’s Life Memories"; Officially criticized for metaphoric and symbolic content |
| 1968 | Decision by the Senate of the University of Art in Leipzig to expel Werner Tübke is retracted due to intense student protests |
| 1970 | Contest winner for monumental mural design "Working Class and Intelligentsia" for the Rector’s Building of the University of Leipzig (completed in 1973) |
| 1971 | First trip to Italy and first single exhibitions abroad (Milan, Brescia, Rome, Modena, Florence); Beginning of international recognition |
| 1972 | Appointment to Full Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig; Gold Medal at the International Graphics Biennial in Florence, second trip to Italy |
| 1973-76 | President at the University of Art in Leipzig |
| 1974 | Head of a Master’s program for painting; third trip to Italy |
| 1974-75 | Polyptych for the Republic’s Palace in East Berlin on the topic “Man – The measure of all things” (uncompleted) |
| 1976 | Contract signing for the execution of the monumental Panorama painting to commemorate the German Peasant War in Bad Frankenhausen/Thuringia. Multiple trips to France and West Germany |
| 1977 | Participation at the Documenta 6 in Kassel/West Germany. First Prize for his exhibition at the East bloc Triennial for Painting in Sofia/Bulgaria |
| 1980 | Käthe-Kollwitz-Prize presented by the East German Academy of Arts; Trips to Italy, St. Petersburg, Bulgaria and West Germany |
| 1981 | Trip to Switzerland; Completion of the 1:10 version of the Panorama painting for Bad Frankenhausen |
| 1982 | Elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts; Travels to Greece, Spain, Moscow and West Germany |
| 1983 | Member of the East German Academy of Arts (opted out in 1992); Trips to West Germany, Sweden and Austria |
| 1984 | Visiting professor at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg (drawing class); Trips to Stockholm, Nuremberg and Ravensberg where he meets Martin Walser |
| 1985 | Honorary Doctorate granted by the University of Leipzig, Travels to Italy, Switzerland and West Germany |
| 1986 | Trips to France, Bulgaria, Moscow and West Germany (Meeting with Horst Janssen in Hamburg) |
| 1987 | Completion of the Panorama Painting in Bad Frankenhausen (started in 1983) |
| 1988 | Honorary membership in the Academy of Arts of the USSR and membership in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (opted out in 1992); Trips to Austria and the United States |
| 1989 | Inauguration of the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen in September |
| 1989/90 | Travels to Switzerland, Sweden and Istrien |
| 1990-93 | Conceptual design for the eight-piece stage settings and costumes of a "Freischütz"- production at the Opera house in Bonn |
| 1993-96 | Work at the winged altar of the Church St. Salvatoris in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Oberharz region (altar consecration April 1997); Trips to Italy (Ischia, Capri), Belgium and Austria |
| 1999 | Retrospective in the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen; Travels to Rome and Tenerife |
| 2000 | Stay in Capri/Italy |
| 2001-02 | Several trips to Italy |
| 2003 | Seriously ill, Werner Tübke exclusively devotes to drawing |
| 2004 | Werner Tübke dies in Leipzig on May 27 |