Gerhart Schreiter

Gerhart Schreiter (born August 20, 1909 in Buchholz , Erzgebirge , † April 27, 1974 in Bremen ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Schreiter completed a craft apprenticeship from 1924 to 1927. He studied from 1930 to 1931 at the Fachschule für Edelmetall Schwäbisch Gmünd and from 1931 to 1932 at the Pforzheim School of Applied Arts . He worked in different workshops, in France in 1933 and then in different places in Germany. From 1935 to 1943 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Berlin School of Fine Arts .

After the Second World War , Schreiter worked as a freelance sculptor. He received several art awards and was represented in various art exhibitions. In 1956 he was given a teaching position at the Bremen Art School . He was appointed head of the plastics department. He continued to work as a stone and wood sculptor and metal sculptor.

The artistic style of his expressive works was realistic and comprised mainly nudes and architectural sculptures . His estate has been in the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, since 2007. A catalog raisonné by the artist is being prepared in this museum.

Works

Memento maris . The "sails" have been lost.

• Siblings at the elementary school on Baumschulenweg in Bremen (1961)
• Cenotaph for foreign dead in the Osterholz cemetery in Bremen (1965)
• Memento Maris in Bremerhaven (1968)

Awards

• 1950: Georg Kolbe Prize
• 1952: Berlin Art Prize
• 1953: Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

• 2014: Gerhart Schreiter: Shaper of everyday life. Gerhard Marcks House , Bremen
• 1956: with Gerd Rosen, Berlin
• 1953: "Brücke" gallery, Bonn
• 1952: Kunstantiquariat Wasmuth, Berlin

literature

• Veronika Wiegartz: Gerhart Schreiter - Shaper of everyday life. Catalog raisonné. Exhibition catalog, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-924412-80-7 .
• Veronika Wiegartz: Gerhart Schreiter. Short chronicle of life and work. Gerhard Marcks Foundation, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-924412-68-5
• Jürgen Fitschen: Nothing but work! The active person in sculpture of the 20th century. Works by Gerhard Marcks, Gerhart Schreiter and Waldemar Grzimek from the collection of the Gerhard Marcks House. Book accompanying the exhibition from March 2 to June 1, 2008, Gerhard Marcks Foundation, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924412-63-0
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

Commons : Gerhart Schreiter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• [1] The Gerhard-Marcks-Haus about Gerhart Schreiter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release on the exhibition ( Memento of the original dated September 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 9, 2014.