Jean Sprenger
Jean Sprenger (born December 16, 1912 in Essen , † June 12, 1980 ibid) was a German sculptor .
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Iduna (1952) in Hamburg
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People and Technology (1955) in the Grugapark
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After attending the Helmholtz secondary school in Essen, Jean Sprenger, the son of a family of industrialists, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin .
While studying in Munich, Sprenger met Berthold von Bohlen und Halbach , the brother of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , the last sole owner of the Krupp company . Sprenger's studio in Berlin was destroyed in World War II, and so after the war he set up his studio in the house of Berthold von Bohlen and Halbach in Essen- Bredeney . Sprenger also worked a few times in the nearby Villa Hügel , the former home of the industrial family Krupp . In the early 1950s, Sprenger met Berthold Beitz in Kampen on the island of Sylt . Beitz, who was then general director of Iduna-Germania insurance in Hamburg , later commissioned a representative sculpture from Jean Sprenger, the sculpture Iduna (goddess of youth from Nordic mythology) for the entrance hall of the insurance company's headquarters. It turned out that it was Sprenger's friend who imagined Beitz as the model for the sculpture Iduna .
In Sprenger's studio in Bredeney, Beitz first met the company owner Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach in the summer of 1952, when he was exhibiting his 2.70-meter-tall, finished sculpture, who was on friendly terms with Sprenger and took numerous photographs of Sprenger's work . Alfried Krupp traveled to Hamburg to visit Beitz and invited him to dinner, whereupon a friendship developed, from which Berthold Beitz finally emerged as the general representative of the Krupp company.
His last studio had Sprenger in the house Schuir in Essen's Schuir .
Works
Jean Sprenger designed 140 portrait busts, including of Berthold Beitz, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and his mother Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , but also of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , the painter Emil Nolde , the US entrepreneur and art patron Avery Brundage and by the actress Agnes Fink . In addition, Jean Sprenger created an abstract sculpture for the Krupp stand at the Hanover Fair , children's figures, a Pietà and the bronze sculptures Uwa and Mensch und Technik , which are located in Essen's Grugapark . Sprenger was also involved in the artistic design of the music theater in the Revier in Gelsenkirchen .
literature
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Joachim Käppner: Berthold Beitz, The Biography . 3. Edition. Berlin-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0892-3 .
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| SURNAME | Sprenger, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1980 |
| Place of death | eat |