Alf Lechner

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Presentation board next to a sculpture from 1979 in Monschau

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

Prices

Constellation , stainless steel, 1995, Mainz , Große Bleiche 54, height 7 m, WV 555

Solo exhibitions

Museums

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

Commons : Works by Alf Lechner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingolstadt: Alf Lechner is dead . In: donaukurier.de . February 26, 2017 ( donaukurier.de [accessed February 26, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Steel sculptor Lechner dead - He brought the hardest material into shape
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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)
  5. ↑ 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).
  6. ↑ Press release of July 8, 2008 (copy in the Internet Archive)
personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Alf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2017