Opitz Kurt

Biography

Kurt Opitz, German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist (1919 Elsterberg to 2011 Elsterberg), first apprenticeship as a decorative painter, 1937/38 at the School of Art and Textile Industry in Plauen, 1939-48 military service and imprisonment, 1942/43 guest student at the Berlin Academy with Paul Thol, Wilhelm Tank and Wilhelm Becker, 1948 returned to Elsterberg and independent from 1952, member of the Visual Artists' Association (VBK) of the GDR, active in Elsterberg.