Barbara Oppenrieder

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Barbara (Maria) Oppenrieder (born April 30, 1962 in Munich ) is a German stone sculptor , type graphic artist and lecturer .

Life

Barbara Oppenrieder is the third of four children and the only daughter of the sculptor Karl Oppenrieder . After completing secondary school, she completed her apprenticeship as a master stonemason in her parents' stonemason business and studied font graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . She also trained with well-known ceramists. Today she works as a freelance sculptor, type graphic artist and lecturer. a. at the technical school for stone technology / master school for the stone and stone carving trade in Munich.

Reconstructed sphinxes with a cock's head on the funeral hall of the north cemetery in Munich, design and model Barbara Oppenrieder
Applied handwriting: individually designed grave ribbon by Barbara Oppenrieder

Artistic work

Oppenrieder's work is traditional in the best sense of the word. Above all, this shows her extensive examination of handwritten script, for which she is known beyond the borders of Munich. With her courses she wants to save an old cultural technique from extinction. In addition to the motoric ability to write by hand, it also conveys the aesthetic feeling for proportions and materials as well as their artistic use. She teaches z. B. also the virtuoso use of Indian ink , self-made colors such. B. casein paints or writing utensils such as brushes , pens , chalk, self-made quills or branches prepared as a pen.

As a sculptor with a focus on stone carving, she follows the tradition of her father Karl Oppenrieder. Cemetery sculpture is one of the focal points of her work. Like her father, she is always looking for the individual expression and form that corresponds to the unique character of the deceased or the memory of the bereaved, such as B. Wing tombstone for the name wing. All traditional techniques are used in the processing of the stones. a. working with the puncturing device , application. This procedure was also used in the reconstruction of the sphinxes at the north cemetery. Oppenrieder also took over the technique of making death masks from her father .

Prices

Exhibitions

Working in public space

  • Collaboration on the history fountain Pfanzeltplatz Munich-Ramersdorf
  • Lecture cross for the Nicodemus Church in Munich
  • the housewife , stone sculpture in Ottobrunn
  • Sculpture in the Kneipp facility, Mertingen
  • Reconstruction of the sphinxes at the north cemetery in Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Master School of Stone Sculptors, Munich
  2. ^ [2] Writing course at the stone center in Wunsiedel
  3. ↑ [3] "The joy of writing course" Wunsiedel 2016.
  4. ↑ [4] "Wing" grave monument
  5. ↑ [5] Transfer from the model to the original with the puncturing device on the left in the picture
  6. ↑ [6] Prize winners at the Federal Garden Show 2015
  7. ↑ [7] The Perlach History Fountain
  8. ↑ [8] Lecture Cross for the Nicodemus Church
  9. ↑ [9] Unveiling of the sculpture "The housewife waits for her housewife" in the Münchner Wochenblatt
  10. ↑ [10] Masterful art for Mertingen Augsburger Allgemeine
  11. ↑ [11] Reconstruction of the Sphinx at the Munich North Cemetery in Munich in tag24.de
  12. ↑ [12] Abendzeitung Munich: The Sphinx are awake again. Retrieved August 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Oppenrieder, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenrieder, Barbara Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich