Alf Lechner
Alf Lechner (born April 17, 1925 in Munich ; † February 25, 2017 ) was a German sculptor and lived in Obereichstätt .
Life
From 1940 to 1950 Lechner was a student with the landscape painter Alf Bachmann in Ambach on Lake Starnberg. In the meantime (1943–1945) he was drafted into labor service and the Navy. From 1950 to 1960 he worked as a painter, graphic artist, industrial designer, lighting technician and steel processor. Lechner created his first abstract sculptures in 1961. The starting point for his work are basic geometric shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles or cuboids, from which Lechner creates provocatively reduced steel sculptures. Lechner himself formulates his intention as follows: "I want to make systematically ordered thinking [...] sensually perceptible by systematically dismantling, bending and rearranging the parts of a simple form."
In 1965 Lechner moved to Degerndorf near Munich. After receiving the sponsorship award from the city of Munich, he accepted a work grant from the BDI culture group: he produced spatial sculptures (“cube-skeleton constructions”) for Linde AG . From 1976 Lechner stabilized his massive steel surface structures spatially with glass. In 1981 he tried his hand at stage designs, namely for the "Antigone" at the Ulm City Theater. For the International Garden Show 1983 he developed the fountain sculpture "Water Wall" from the system of the cube. At that time he also moved to Geretsried near Munich.
In 1995 Lechner became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . In 1999 he founded the Alf Lechner Foundation and one year later he got his own museum in Ingolstadt , the “ Lechner Museum ” , financed from his own assets and by the Free State and the city . In the same year he bought and renovated the former iron and steel works in Obereichstätt and transformed it with his works into a sculpture park.
As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Lechner took part in many annual exhibitions of the DKB between 1969 and 1992. In 2005 Alf Lechner took part in the Hanover Sculpture Mile .
Lechner was friends with the sculptor Fritz Koenig for many years , whom he survived for two days.
gallery
Steel cube (1970) - Westpark in Nuremberg
“3/72 frame construction” (1972) - Collection of the Sculpture Museum Glaskasten in Marl
"Frame cube with wooden beams" (1973) - Leinfelden-Echterdingen
"Tilted Cube" (1973/75) - Freiburg im Breisgau - Campus of the University of Education
"Circle division - square arrangement - sphere" (1987) - Hanover - Königsworther Platz
Prices
- 1972: Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Munich
- 1974: Berlin Art Prize
- 1979: 1st prize " Dimension 79 " (competition for contemporary sculptures by Philip Morris GmbH)
- 1988: Art Prize "City Sculptor of the City of Hanau 1988"
- 1990: Munich Medal shines in gold for the state capital Munich
- 1991: German Critics' Prize for the visual arts
- 1992: Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture
- 2000: Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- 2002: Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum
- 2002: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2008: Culture Prize of the District of Upper Bavaria
- 2008: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2010: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Gold
Solo exhibitions
- 1968: Galerie Heseler, Munich
- 1969: Galerie H. Nebelung, Düsseldorf
- 1969: Lempertz Contempora Gallery, Cologne
- 1970: Defet Gallery , Nuremberg
- 1971: Rothe Gallery, Heidelberg
- 1971: Mannheim Art Association
- 1971: Galerie Stangl, Munich
- 1971: Galerie m, Bochum
- 1973: Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
- 1973: Galerie Stangl, Munich
- 1973: State Gallery of Modern Art, Munich
- 1974: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
- 1975: Folkwang Museum, Essen
- 1976: Ravensburg Municipal Gallery
- 1976: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
- 1977: Art Association Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1978: Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- 1978: Gallery D + C Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart
- 1981: Städtische Galerie Regensburg
- 1982: Galerie Druckwerk, Munich
- 1983: Galerie Reckmann, Cologne
- 1983: Kunstverein Hochrhein, Bad Säckingen
- 1983: Gallery D + C Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart
- 1984: Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 1985: State Gallery of Modern Art, Munich
- 1985: Galerie D + C Müller-Roth / Art Cologne , Cologne
- 1986: National Gallery Berlin
- 1986: Museum of Modern Art in the Palais, Vienna
- 1986: Liechtenstein
- 1987: Galerie Mathea, Wolfenbüttel
- 1987: Galerie R. Walser, Munich
- 1989: Galerie H. Strelow, Düsseldorf
- 1989: Institute for Modern Art, Nuremberg
- 1898: Galerie kö 24, Hanover
- 1990: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich
- 1990: Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- 1990: Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Museums
- Alf Lechner Museum ( Ingolstadt )
- New Museum Nuremberg (sculpture garden)
- Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg (sculpture park)
- Glaskasten Sculpture Museum , Marl
- New National Gallery , Berlin
- Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
- Kunsthalle zu Kiel of the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel
- Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau , Munich
literature
- Lechner, Alf . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 40-41, 108-109, 124-125, 134-135, 178-179 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alf Lechner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lechner Museum Ingolstadt
- Munich Airport: Sculpture "Start in Munich - Land in Munich"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingolstadt: Alf Lechner is dead . In: donaukurier.de . February 26, 2017 ( donaukurier.de [accessed February 26, 2017]).
- ↑ Steel sculptor Lechner dead - He brought the hardest material into shape
- ↑ Frederik Obermaier: Who conquers steel. Tomorrow the sculptor Alf Lechner will celebrate his 85th birthday - his art also shapes Upper Bavaria. In: Münchner Merkur, April 16, 2010, p. 18.
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Lechner, Alf ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 3, 2015)
- ↑ Hermann Schnall: 45 tons of steel art from Koenig's friend Alf Lechner. Invitation: Today, October 3rd at 11 am, the inauguration ceremony on Mühleninsel with free beer and pretzels. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Press release of July 8, 2008 (copy in the Internet Archive)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lechner, Alf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2017 |