Bernd Benedix

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Bernd Benedix (born February 27, 1943 ; † March 31, 2013 ) was a German sculptor . He lived in the Palatinate town of Edenkoben .

life and work

Bernd Benedix was born in the former GDR in 1943. He studied at the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle. At the beginning of the 1970s, he managed to escape from the former GDR under adventurous circumstances. The painter and graphic artist Hubert Gems created the city ​​history fountain in Schifferstadt with Bernd Benedix in his Speyer studio. The piece of jewelery was cast in bronze in Remchingen -Nöttingen in four parts . The fountain weighs around a ton, its diameter is five meters, its height 1.70 meters. The model of the fountain was presented on October 30, 1981. In 1982 the fountain was officially installed.

In 1983 Benedix was awarded the Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts .

Bernd Benedix died on March 31, 2013 at the age of 70. An obituary describes him as follows: "He defied all the hectic pace of that time with a decidedly stoic strength of will".

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1987: Bernd Benedix, sculptures: March 15th-20th April 1987, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern , by Bernd Benedix, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1987
  • 1988: Bernd Benedix - Jürgen Liefmann, Kunstverein Speyer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz from April 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Bernd Benedix in: Speyerer Tagespost
  3. ↑ Biographical data from Bernd Benedix in: Das Münster , Volume 36, Verlag Schnell & Steiner., 1983, page 169
  4. ↑ Daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz from April 13, 2013
  5. ↑ Bernd Benedix in: Der Fischer Weltalmanach , Fischer Bücherei, 1984, page 17
  6. ↑ Bernd Benedix, Sculptures: March 15-20. April 1987, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern , by Bernd Benedix, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Benedix, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1943
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2013