Hermann Glöckner

[1] Among their lectures were Oskar Seyffert and Carl Rade, who later was a renowned professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and remained a friend of Glöckner for many years.

After World War I, Glöckner earned some money with the copying of paintings for the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.

Glöckner lost his home during the bombing of Dresden in World War II and moved to Loschwitz.

Because of his formalist style, the officials of the GDR refused him the appreciation he deserved for a long time.

Centrally in the area of the Technische Universität Dresden he was allowed to erect a sculpture, which had been banned just a few years before.

[5] Glöckner made his works from objects he had on hand: twine, cardboard, match boxes, and wood scrapes.

Hermann Glöckner in front of a work by Horst Bartnig in a private exhibition in Dresden in 1974
"Durchbruch" – plastic by Hermann Glöckner in front of the Bundeshaus Bonn
"Mast mit zwei Faltungszonen" – plastic by Hermann Glöckner, Technische Universität Dresden