Anselm Treese

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Anselm Treese (born August 16, 1930 in Dortmund , † June 18, 2004 in Dortmund) was a German sculptor. He was best known for his sculptures in public spaces and wall designs in public buildings in the Ruhr area .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and carpenter, Treese studied from 1953 to 1956 at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund , which at the time was relocated to Buddenburg Castle in Lünen-Lippholthausen , as a pupil of Karel Niestrath . When the Werkkunstschule was moved back to Dortmund in 1956, Treese stayed as a freelance sculptor in Lünen. Until 1975 the city provided him with rent-free living and studio space. On August 26, 1958, the culture committee decided to set up a joint studio for Treese and the graphic artist Hermann Nüdling , and in 1961 he was granted his own space next to the former elementary school Auf dem Knapp an der Wethmarheide.

In the years 1955 to 1975, large free and applied sculptures made of stone, bronze or polyester were created there for parks and other public facilities.

The city of Lünen awarded Treese several orders: In 1958 Treese was responsible for the artistic design of the Nikolaus-Groß-Schule through relief work, on February 5, 1963 the plastic Hiroshima , which was responsible for the dropping of the atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, was purchased remind. On May 6, 1965, Tree's sculpture Die Vergänlichkeit was installed in Lünen. Treese created sculptures for the municipal cemeteries Lünen-Süd and Lünen / Altlünen in 1964.

Sculpture by Anselm Treese (today's location on the B 54 / B 1 in Dortmund)

In 1975 Anselm Treese won the competition for a concrete sculpture on Reinoldi-Kirchplatz in Dortmund. For the realization he moved his studio from Lünen to Dortmund and built it up for the almost year-long work on Reinoldiplatz. At the same time he moved his residence to Dortmund in his parents' house.

According to the invitation to tender, the sculpture, which is precisely tailored to the given local requirements, should "serve as an unmistakable symbol both as a meeting point and as a large-scale sculpture to encourage people to 'own' - in the truest sense of the word".

In the 1980s, the Treese sculpture at the Reinoldikirche in the center of Dortmund became a meeting place for young people and therefore a nuisance for some. Dortmund's mayor at the time, Günter Samtlebe , decreed: “The sausage must go,” the artist defended his work.

The sculpture, which was also popularly called Anselm's bar , was finally removed from the city center and placed on a lawn in the intersection area B 54 / B 1.

Sculpture Mother Hiroshima on Hiroshima Square in Dortmund

At the request of various peace groups on June 9, 1999 to the Dortmund district representation downtown-west , a place in Hiroshima was set up directly at the choir of the provost church, Dortmund's main Catholic church . This square was designed with Tree's sculpture Mother Hiroshima from 1958, which was donated by the Reinoldigilde in Dortmund in 1997 to the Catholic Propsteigemeinde St.-Johannes-Baptist. The sculpture Hiroshima from 1958 is located in Lünen, entrance to Tobiaspark / Münsterstrasse.

Anselm Treese had a studio in the south of Dortmund.

Works in public space

concrete

Brick reliefs

  • 1983 Twenty-one clinker walls, employment office, Bochum
  • 1986 Casino entrance, Brückberg barracks, Siegburg
  • 1987 clinker brick wall, telecommunications office, Aachen
  • 1989 Three clinker walls, Holzkamp Comprehensive School, Witten
  • 1990 Counter hall, post office, Pulheim
  • 1990 clinker walls, farm building, Winckelmann barracks, Iserlohn

swell

  • Lünen City Archives, City Archives, Administrative Archives 1945–1997, 4,627 files, several entries about orders to Anselm Treese
  • WAZ Dortmund, August 3, 2000: A small area with a lot of symbolism
  • WAZ Dortmund, August 16, 2000: Love for music always resonates.
  • WAZ Dortmund, June 23, 2004: Sculptor Anselm Treese has died.
  • WAZ Dortmund, August 17, 2010: Sculptor Treese would have turned 80.

Web links

Commons : Anselm Treese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anselm Treese: Walls and walls as art objects . Catalog. Dortmund 1993 (not recorded in the DNB or in any other German academic library).
  2. ↑ Always remember: the rhino is a loner . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . July 13, 2007, OCLC 643780818 , ZDB -ID 973929-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Treese, Anselm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2004
Place of death Dortmund