page_title: Willi Sitte
hierarchical_section_title: Willi Sitte
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. ADN-ZB/Settnik/3.10.87/Dresden: X. Kunstausstellung der DDR Zur Eröffnung der Kunstausstellung im Dresdner Albertinum hieß der Präsident des Verbandes Bildender Künstler der DDR, Prof. Willi Sitte, den Generalsekretär des ZK der SED und Vorsitzenden des Staatsrates der DDR, Erich Honecker, herzlich willkommen. Viele Dresdner Einwohner waren zur Begrüßung Erich Honeckers und seiner Begleitung erschienen.
context_page_description: Willi Sitte was a German painter. For a long time, he was the president of the East German association of visual artists.
  Sitte was born on 28 February 1921 in Kratzau, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to German parents. He was never married and had no children. Sitte died on 8 June 2013 in Halle, Germany from natural causes, aged 92.
context_section_description: Willi Sitte (28 February 1921 – 8 June 2013) was a German painter. For a long time, he was the president of the East German association of visual artists.
  Sitte was born on 28 February 1921 in Kratzau, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to German parents. He was never married and had no children. Sitte died on 8 June 2013 in Halle, Germany from natural causes, aged 92.
caption: Sitte (center) in 1987
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