Alfred Aschauer

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Alfred Aschauer (born September 15, 1931 in Bischofswiesen ; † May 15, 2013 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and from 1964 to 1973 scientific assistant at the chair for plastic design at the Technical University of Munich .

Live and act

Born in Bischofswiesen as the son of the “famous mountain guide” Josef Aschauer , Alfred Aschauer is “almost unknown” in his home region.

At the end of the war, only 14 years old, Aschauer did not know of any abstract art that had been considered “degenerate” up to then . It was only after he had graduated from high school in 1950 and began studying with Anton Hiller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1952 that he got to know abstract art and made it his artistic focus. From 1953 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Hans Wimmer . In 1958, he supplemented his studies with training in the technique of bronze casting using the lost wax process in the Munich ore foundry Hans Mayr. In 1959 he graduated from the Nuremberg Academy with the appointment of a master class student .

In 1960 he returned to Berchtesgaden to set up his own metal foundry in his parents' property and to operate it until 1964. Then he was from 1964 to 1973 as a research assistant at the Department of Sculptural Design by Fritz Koenig worked at the Technical University of Munich, took in time but already in several group exhibitions, had presented works by himself in solo exhibitions in Paris and Holland and two Large sculptures made of steel. One was placed in front of the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen , the other in Neuperlach .

From 1973 he lived and worked exclusively as a freelance sculptor in Munich until his death .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1970: Exhibition at Galerie 3 + 2 D'Halluin & Cie, Paris, together with Hans Bellmer
  • 1972: Galerie Nouvelles Images in The Hague, Holland
  • 1974: Galerie Levy, Hamburg, together with Peter Paul
  • 1975: "Plastic - Unique" in the GALLERIA NOVA, Regensburg
  • 1988: “Bronzen” in the Mader Gallery, Munich
  • 1988: Galerie Brockstedt , Hamburg, together with Johannes Grützke
  • 1993: “Bronzen” in the M. Greiner Gallery, Starnberg
  • 1995: "Bronze casts and hand drawings" in the education center of the Upper Bavaria district, Seeon Abbey in Seeon

Group exhibitions

  • 1963: “Young City sees young art” in Wolfsburg
  • 1964: Autumn exhibition of the New Darmstadt Secession
  • 1966: “Hommage à Franz Roh ” at the Munich Art Association
  • 1966: "Plastic of our time" in the Erlangen orangery
  • 1966: "Sculptures and Sculpture Graphics", Galerie Lyon, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1967: “Extra” in the Wiesbaden Municipal Museum
  • 1968: "8 German Sculptors", a contribution from the German Art Council to the First Triennale India , New Delhi
  • 1968: "Art and Plastic", Wiesbaden Municipal Museum
  • 1968: "The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art", Lund Kunsthall Sweden
  • 1969: "Sculpture and Sculptural Form", Staempfli Gallery, New York
  • 1969: "plastieken in het lansshop", Keukenhof near Lisse , Holland
  • 1974: E + T Sulzbeck Gallery, Erlangen-Tennenlohe
  • 1975: Presentation at the Art / 75 art fair in Basel by the Brockstedt Gallery , Hamburg
  • 1977: Presentation at the art fairs in Cologne and Hanover by the Brockstedt Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1987: “Pictures, sculptures, graphics, objects” in the Mader Gallery, Munich
  • 1990: "Nude drawings" in the Mader Gallery, Munich
  • 1992: "The Eternal Feminine Pulls Us Up" in the Meautis Gallery, Munich
  • 1999: “Secundo millenario exeunte” in the Meautis Gallery, Munich

Works in public space

Awards

  • 1963: City of Wolfsburg Art Prize for sculpture and purchase of the bronze sculpture "Spaltung" as part of the exhibition "Young City sees young art"

Trivia

A story guaranteed by the Berchtesgadener Heimatkundeverein:

“Aschi” was once tempted in the fifties to depict matter in bronze shortly before it fell apart. He submitted the work to a competition and won first prize. Justification of the then famous “ Kuratorium indivisible Germany ”: It would have represented the division of Germany in an inimitable way . That was new to Aschauer, but he accepted the prize and used it to buy a BMW . "

- Berchtesgaden Local History Association

literature

  • Felix Brandt (Ed.): Alfred Aschauer - Sculptures · Drawings . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-4261-2 .
  • Aschauer, Alfred . 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. 90, 96-97 .

Movie

Web links

Commons : Alfred Aschauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Felicitas Brandt: Biography Alfred Aschauer. In: Felix Brandt (Ed.): Alfred Aschauer - Sculptures · Drawings . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-4261-2 , p. 4 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e The sculptor Alfred Aschauer , online at heimatkundeverein-berchtesgaden.de
personal data
SURNAME Aschauer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofswiesen
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2013
Place of death Munich