Baldur Geipel

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Baldur Geipel (born December 24, 1933 in Reichenbach im Vogtland ) is a German sculptor and freelance artist based in Munich .

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Baldur Geipel was born as the son of Kurt and Helene Geipel, b. Glauche was born. He attended from 1948 to 1952 the technical school in Oberammergau in the class of Hans Schwaighofer (1920-2000). After passing the journeyman's examination in 1952, he worked in the workshop of Richard Lang (1920–2006) also in Oberammergau in 1952/53. From 1953 to 1959 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master class student under Professor Josef Henselmann and obtained his diploma in 1959.

He has been self-employed since 1959. In 1961 he was a DAAD scholar in France. From 1978 to 1996 Baldur Geipel taught as a specialist teacher for sculpture at the college for carpenters and wood carvers in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Since 1997 he has been working as a freelance artist in Munich, designing in bronze, wood and paper.

Baldur Geipel made numerous study trips to Spain, France, Holland, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Turkey, and to New York.

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • 1949: 2nd prize, souvenir, competition, Oberammergau
  • 1955: 1st prize, state competition for the exterior facade of the Matthäuskirche in Munich in collaboration with Anselm Gleixner
  • 1959: 3rd prize, small sculpture, Olympic competition of the NOK
  • 1971: Prize in the competition of the international design center Berlin, "Child and Environment"
  • 1974: Water lily prize for fine arts of the state capital Munich
  • 1994: graphic award pro art international
  • 2001: Challenge Prize - Seerosenring

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987: Exhibition in the gallery of the artists' guild in Esslingen
  • 1989: Dresdner Bank, Erding
  • 1990: Galerie Couleur, Rosenheim
  • 1995: Seeon Abbey, culture and education center
  • 1997: Voigtsberg Castle, Oelsnitz, Carpet and Local History Museum
  • 2001: Galerie Frank, Munich
  • 2001: Pilatushaus, Oberammergau
  • 2003: Galerie Schloss Netzschkau, Vogtland
  • 2005: Üblacker-Häusl, Munich (The record and the sheet)
  • 2007: Villa Taubenschlag, Garmisch (sculpture and graphics)
  • 2009: Malura Museum, Oberdiessen (50 years of sculptor and etcher, 1959–2009)
  • 2012: Künstlerhaus Munich 1990–2012 (relief, etching, drawing, folding)
  • 2013: Phases of life, atrium in the Vaterstetten town hall

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Since 1963: major art exhibitions, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Water Lily Prize in Munich, Bonn, Regensburg, Passau; Art exhibitions Wasserburg; Esslingen and Regensburg artists' guild

  • 1978: BBK Munich, Art in Architecture, artists work on behalf of the public
  • 1986: Artists' Association Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • 1986: Lokschuppen Rosenheim ("Really animals?")
  • 1999: Special contribution, artists' association Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • 2000: Sculptures in the courtyard of the Munich Künstlerhaus with Susi Rosenberg
  • 2000: Art in the Federal Patent Court of Munich with Irene Hallman-Strauss
  • 2007: Bronze sculpture, Werdenfels Museum, Partenkirchen
  • 2007: Landsberg an der Warthe, Poland
  • 2008: Reiffenstuel-Haus, Pfarrkirchen, with Konrad Hetz and Erhard Paskuda
  • 2008: Small sculpture, Burghausen
  • 2008: Rathausgalerie Munich, 60 years of water lily circles, literature, cabaret and visual arts
  • 2011: Sculpture Path, Art Spring, Bad Wörishofen
  • 2013: 50 years special exhibition, Malura Museum
  • 2013: 65 years of the Seerosenkreis, Munich Künstlerhaus
  • 2014: Annual exhibition at Kunstverein, Bad Wörishofen
  • 2014: Artists network Föhn eV, Ingolstadt art fair
  • 2014: Schöner Wohnen, Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft, Supreme Building Authority Munich
  • 2015: 50 years of the Künstlerbund eV, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • 2015: 50 years of art in the Federal Patent Court of Munich
  • 2016: Hundertzwanzig, Kunsthaus Fürstenfeld, Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft
  • 2016: Across the Mountains, South Tyrolean Artists 'House, Prisma and New Munich Artists' Cooperative

Working in public space

Public, ecclesiastical and private owned works can be found in Portugal, England and Germany.

  • 1960: Way of the Cross, copper chased, Catholic Church, Warmensteinach
  • 1963: Play plastic, concrete, children's playground, Dachau
  • 1967: Altar cross, brass embossed, Protestant church, Unterdürrbach
  • 1969: pair of candlesticks, bronze, St. Johannes Evangelist, Munich
  • 1970: Madonna relief, bronze, St. Johannes Evangelist, Munich
  • 1971: Children's playground, Kirchheim near Munich
  • 1973: Children's playground, Munich, Johannisplatz
  • 1976: Play frame on a children's playground, Munich, Görzerstraße
  • 1980: Antonius relief in St. Helena, Munich
  • 1988: Courtyard design: Movable bronze sculpture and tree in the Dachau workshop for the disabled

Memberships

literature

  • 1982: Hans Kießling: meeting with sculptors. Munich art scene 1955–1982. EOS 1982. ISBN 3-88096-183-2
  • 1994: District of Upper Bavaria (ed.): Sculptures, furniture, rooms, 125 years of Garmisch-Partenkirchen technical school. Buchendorf publishing house.
  • 1995: Walter Andreas Angerer (Angerer the Younger): Sculptures in the spring construction of the old salt works Bad Reichenhall. Bruckmann publishing house. ISBN 3765427721 .
  • 2000: Peter Grassinger, sculptures in the courtyard of the Munich Künstlerhaus, Baldur Geipel and Susi Rosenberg
  • 2003: Rathausgalerie and art pavilion, "55 years of the Seerosenkreis", visual arts, cultural department Munich, c / o Baldur Geipel, concept: Andreas Kühne.
  • 2008: Rathausgalerie, 60 years of water lily circles, literature, cabaret and fine arts, concept: Baldur Geipel, Konrad Hetz, Dr. Brigitta Rambeck, Culture Department Munich.
  • 2009: “and”, Das Münchner Kunstjournal, Volume 26, Issue No. 38, Baldur Geipel, works from 50 years 1959–2009, Ruprecht Volz.
  • 2009: 30 years of art in the Rathausgalerie, 1979–2009, Dr. Peter Pinnau, Culture Department Munich.
  • 2010: 110 Years of the Munich Künstlerhaus 1900–2010, page 105, Baldur Geipel, by Maja and Peter Grassinger and Dr. Brigitta Rambeck.
  • Baldur Geipel: Sketches, drawings, models and etchings, 1961–1989. Self-published, Munich 1990.
  • Baldur Geipel: Graphics and sculptures from four decades - a selection, 1955–1995. Self-published, Munich 1995.
  • Baldur Geipel: Between the horizons, sculpture, etching, drawing, folding - insights. Self-published, Munich, Bonn 2012.
  • Münchner Künstlerhaus-Stiftung (Ed.): Baldur Geipel - Life - In wood, bronze and on paper. Catalog for the exhibition in the art cabinet and inner courtyard of the Munich Künstlerhaus 27.10. - 11/26/2016. Munich 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Munich Artists' Cooperative
  2. ^ Artists' Association Garmisch-Partenkirchen
personal data
SURNAME Geipel, Baldur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach in Vogtland