Bernhard Heiliger Foundation

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Atelier on Käuzchensteig,
seat of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation
and the Kunsthaus Dahlem

The Bernhard Heiliger Foundation is a non-profit foundation that preserves the work of the sculptor and painter Bernhard Heiliger and also supports young, as yet unknown artists. It is headquartered in Berlin-Dahlem , Käuzchensteig 8-12 in the building of the once for Arno Breker built studios in which lived from 1949 to 1995 also the namesake of the Foundation and worked.

History of the foundation

In order to preserve Heiliger's artistic legacy and open it to the art world, Sabine Wellmann-Heiliger, his fourth wife, founded a charitable foundation on October 25, 1996 . Sabine Wellmann and the President of the University of the Arts , Lothar Romain, took over the chairmanship of the foundation . Heiliger's stepson Marc Wellmann was initially the foundation's curator , and from 2005 he took over the chairmanship. In 2012, Walter Rasch was elected to the foundation's chairmanship as successor to Sabine Wellmann . Sabine Wellmann has been honorary chairwoman since then. In November 2015, Kai Drabe and Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker appointed to the board of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation. Since January 1, 2018, Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker and Anna Distelkamp exercised.

The foundation, a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations , has its office in the building complex on Käuzchensteig.

goal

In addition to administering and exploiting the rights to Bernhard Heiliger's work, the foundation also supports little-known artists in the form of the Bernhard Heiliger grant . Atelierhaus Dahlem gGmbH, a subsidiary of the foundation, is the sponsor of the Kunsthaus Dahlem in the historic studio building, in which the art of German post-war modernism and the work of Bernhard Heiliger are shown. The scholarship winners also present their exhibitions here. In addition to the funds generated through the exploitation of rights, funding from the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin could also be obtained for the financing of individual projects . In addition, every four years a separate jury awards the Bernhard Heiliger Prize for Sculpture, endowed with 15,000  euros . Its most important award criterion “is the appreciation of an artist who is still alive, who possesses an inherent substance that is independent of fads on the art market and who has made a significant contribution to sculpture or the concept of sculpture. The Bernhard Heiliger Prize is neither a prize for young talent, a sponsorship prize, nor an award for artists who have already become classic ”, as it says on the foundation's website.

Atelier and sculpture garden

The Berlin Senate leased from February 1949 the eastern part of the studio building together with the caretaker's house in February 1949, the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger , who was a student of Breker and had previously worked with him. Heiliger lived and worked in these rooms until his death in 1995.

The studio building with today's Kunsthaus Dahlem is surrounded by a large natural garden. It contains more than 20 mostly abstract sculptures by Heiliger made of cement, metal or plastic. The foundation also organizes guided tours through the sculpture garden upon registration.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation
  2. ^ Bernhard Heiliger Prize for Sculpture. accessed on April 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Heiliger Scholarship. accessed on April 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Monument complex Käuzchensteig 8–12 in Berlin-Dahlem
  5. ↑ The sculpture garden on Käuzchensteig. accessed on April 25, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '59 "  N , 13 ° 16'27.1"  E