Anton Berger (sculptor)

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Anton Berger (born May 13, 1935 in Munich ) is a German metal sculptor and emeritus professor at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences .

Live and act

From 1958 to 1962, Anton Berger studied sculpture and sculpture in the class of Franz Rickert at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown . After graduating, he began to work as an artist and took on teaching positions at the State College for Glass and Jewelry in Kaufbeuren and at the Vocational Education Institute in Munich. In 1964 he was appointed to Cologne as professor of metal sculpture at the Cologne factory schools . In his artistic work he concentrated on kinetic sculptures from 1966 to 1980 and created filigree metal objects as well as wind- and water-driven machine sculptures .

In 1971, the Cologne factory schools were integrated into the newly founded Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Berger worked there as the head of the art and design department. He perfected his metal tools there.

The TH Köln emerged from the university of applied sciences, with the KISD ( Cologne International School of Design ). Berger held the professorship for metal and design there from 1991 to 1995.

He has been retired since 2001 .

Exhibitions

  • 1965: Young artists at the Munich Academy. House of Art , Munich

Works in public space

  • Windmill / Saber kite, Federal Garden Show 1971, Rheinpark Cologne , 1971
  • Wind needle, Federal Garden Show 1971, Rheinpark Cologne
  • Counter-rotating rotor, Federal Garden Show 1971, Rheinpark Cologne
  • Wind sculptures, Federal Garden Show 1971, Rheinpark Cologne
  • Machine dance (with Gerhard Lenzen, Michael Wolf), Federal Garden Show 1971, Rheinpark Cologne

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Berger, Anton (1935). In: General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database - Online. Andreas Beyer, Bénédicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff, 1994, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Prof. Anton Berger. In: suedkunst-koeln.de. 2003, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ Business Association of Visual Artists North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . tape 2 . Bongers, 1966, pp. 24 .
  4. ↑ a b c Ulrike Süsser: balls of wire are reminiscent of cocoons. In: ksta.de. June 12, 2003, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Prof. em. Anton Berger. In: kisd.de. KISD Köln International School of Design, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kurt Schönbohm: The Rheinpark and the two federal garden shows in 1957 and 1971 . In: Cologne: Grünanlagen 1945–1975 (=  Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne . No. 16 ). Bachem, Cologne 1988, ISBN 978-3-7616-0938-5 , pp. 80 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Viola Brixius: The Rheinpark in Cologne. History of a green area from 1914 to today (dissertation) . Cologne 2004, p. 157 .
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art professor and metal sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich