Ludwig Valentin Angerer

Ludwig Valentin Angerer (also known as Angerer the Elder ; born August 7, 1938 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a German architect , painter , sculptor and author . He is the brother of Walter Andreas Angerer (also: Angerer the Younger ).

life and work

Angerer studied architecture in Munich from 1957 to 1961 and then for another four years at the Academy of Fine Arts . After working as a design architect in Alexander von Branca's office , he worked as a freelancer from 1975. His numerous works in various genres include the artistic equipment for the film The Neverending Story II - In Search of Fantasias based on the novel by Michael Ende . For this Angerer was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize. He also designed Michael Ende's tomb in the Munich forest cemetery . Angerer works for the theater, as a filmmaker and writer. In 1996 he was a founding member of the Center for Fantastic Artists. In 2000, the Erlöserkapelle in Biburg , built by Angerer the Elder , a Christian total work of art consisting of architecture, painting and sculpture, was ecumenically inaugurated. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. , wrote a handwritten greeting. In 2003, Angerer and 43 other people took part in the “Ambassador of Lower Bavaria” initiative of the regional marketing project in the Lower Bavaria district . In 2006 he became the official godfather of the word beauty , awarded by the German Language Association. V. In 2007 Angerer's triptych “Soul Europe” was exhibited in the European Parliament in Brussels . This exhibition was made possible by Manfred Weber , MEP, and the opening speech was given by EU Commissioner Ján Figeľ .

In 2008 Angerer was awarded the French Art Prize Trophée Apocalypse Dore of the European Fantastic Salon SAFE 2008, presented by Louis Giscard d'Estaing in Le Mont-Dore . In April 2008 he was awarded the Kelheim District Art and Culture Prize . In 2011, Angerer received the Apocalypse Dore Trophy again .

For the planned 55 meter high statue of Christ on the Predigtstuhl in Bad Reichenhall , an initiative of Harry Vossberg's “Christian Initiative Predigtstuhl” (CIP), Angerer created the designs that were presented at a press conference and on Bavarian television. A statue of Christ as Christ Cathedral, the incarnation of Christ, the message “his body be our temple” - this thought kept Angerer going, and so the idea took shape. In two years of work, the model of a statue of Christ as Christ Cathedral was created. In 2013 he received the bronze medal at the Paris Salon Art en Capital for his exhibited work "Don Quijote". In 2014 he received the silver medal there for his Christian themed painting “Absolute Fall from Hell”, a commitment to the Christian West.

criticism

Angerer, who described Pablo Picasso's work Guernica as kitsch, was accused that his distinction between healthy and sick art was full of “petty bourgeois resentment” and that the rigid “rejection of the individually autonomous man of the present in favor of higher-level (religious) structures” had problematic historical models . A “law of divine agreement” in art postulated by Angerer can be described as blasphemous with Adorno .

bibliography

Fiction

• A lost dream. Novel. Verlag Zeitwende , Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-934291-43-0 .
• Not a lost dream. The old emperor in the Wunderberg. Novel. Turn of the times, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-934291-42-2 .
• The fairy tale as a dream. The dream as a fairy tale. 2 volumes. Turn of the times, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-934291-53-9 .
• Janus and Sunaj - Dangerous Dreams . Fantastic fairy tale. Burg-Verlag Rehau 2016. ISBN 978-3-944370-39-2

Non-fiction

• Culture break. Polemic against the zeitgeist. Nymphenburger, Munich 1994. ISBN 3-485-00691-2 .
• The return of man to art. Art volume, 2 volumes. Verlag Kastner, Wolnzach 2015. ISBN 978-3-945296-24-0 .

literature

• Gustav René Hocke: Fantasy of Longing. On the artistic work of the Angerer brothers. Painting architecture seal. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7654-1840-4 .
• Manfred van Well: Struggle and Vision. Conflict images by the Angerer brothers when viewed together with historical representations. Bruckmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7654-1936-2 .
• Michael Heyder: Angerer, d.Ä. . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 53.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Valentin Angerer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Valentin Angerer in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Homepage of the artist (plans and views of the Christ statue on the website under press )
• CIP Christian Initiative Pax by Harry Vossberg
• The film about the Christ statue as Christ Cathedral
• Museum in the sheepfold - retrospective
• Article in Die Tagespost of August 3, 2019
• The cultural talk with Walter Flemmer on Bavarian television, 1996

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michaela Arbinger: 44 ambassadors are supposed to bring Lower Bavaria up. ( Memento from October 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Passauer Neue Presse from November 10, 2003. Retrieved on December 14, 2019
2. ↑ Frank Böckelmann: presents Angerer the Elder in Tumult in the autumn 2019 edition . In: manuscriptum.de. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
3. ↑ Angelika Slavik: Great faith - Christ statue for Bad Reichenhall. In: Süddeutsche.de on May 17, 2010, accessed on December 14, 2019.
4. ↑ Baal Müller: Modern Art. The architect and painter Angerer the Elder on beauty, truth and the eternal. ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Junge Freiheit, March 17, 2000.
5. ^ Andreas Mertin: Blasphemy. For the return of sacred art. ( Memento from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Magazine for Theology and Aesthetics