Gerd Weiland, born in 1945 in Neustadt, is a German artist known primarily for his work in sculpture and painting.
After completing an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Kaiserslautern, Weiland pursued studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under the guidance of Hans Wimmer. He has spent the majority of his professional life as a freelance artist, and held teaching positions at the Nuremberg Academy from 1973 to 1976 and again from 1986 to 1987.
Weiland is perhaps best known for completing the monument to Konrad Adenauer in Cologne in 1991, a project that was initiated by Hans Wimmer. In 1999, he created a marble bust of Adenauer for the Walhalla. Prior to these works, he had already produced the Hennenbrunnen in Nuremberg in 1980, and in 1982, he sculpted a nearly two-meter-high chair with an overturned top from sandstone for the sculpture park in his student hometown of Kaiserslautern.
Over the course of his career, Weiland has received numerous accolades, including the Bavarian State Promotion Prize, the Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize, and the Promotion Prize for the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize. He was also a scholarship recipient of the Free State of Bavaria at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.