Bernd Göbel (sculptor)

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Bernd Göbel (right) on April 22, 2017 in Gotha at the unveiling of the memorial he created for Luise-Dorothea von Sachsen-Meiningen on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of her death.

Bernd Göbel (born October 15, 1942 in Freiberg ) is a German sculptor , medalist and graphic artist .

Life

Bernd Göbel did an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor from 1961 to 1963 . Then from 1963 to 1969 he studied sculpture at the University of Industrial Design in Halle (Saale) with Gerhard Lichtenfeld .

From 1969 to 1973 he was assistant to Gerhard Lichtenfeld, from 1973 a lecturer. In 1978 Göbel received a lectureship and became head of the sculpture class at Giebichenstein Castle. In 1982 he was appointed professor of plastic at the Halle University of Industrial Design, Burg Giebichenstein, and since 1991 has also been the university's prorector. In March 2008, he resigned from university.

Bernd Göbel continued the Halle tradition of sculpting in teaching in the third generation, so that he trained many students in this sense. These students include Carsten Theumer, Bernd Kleffel, Marcus Golter, Steffen Ahrens, Maya Graber , Anne-Karen Hentschel, Petra Schwenzfeier, Katrin Pannicke , Martin Rödel, Adelheid Fuss, Stefan Voigtländer, Bruno Raetsch and others. a.

He was able to teach his students how to create medals and how to make a coin. He himself was invited to competitions for the design of 10 DM and 10 € commemorative coins for the Ministry of Finance.

Bernd Göbel has been a member of FIDEM (Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d'Art) since 1987 and has been a manager of the German Society for Medal Art to this day .

Bernd Göbel also works as a graphic artist; he is a wood cutter, with which he resumes the tradition of Gerhard Marcks .

Awards

Bernd Göbel received international recognition primarily as a medalist: he was the first German to receive the Sandford Saltus Prize of the American Numismatic Society in New York in 2000 and the FIDEM Grand Prix in Paris in 2002.

Further awards: 1973 Will Lammert Prize Berlin, 1975 Gustav Weidanz Prize for sculpture from Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle, 1984 Art Prize of the GDR , 1988 Art Prize of the FDGB .

In 2000 Bernd Göbel became an honorary member of the ANS (American Numismatic Society).

In 2012 he received the Hilde Bröer Prize from the German Society for Medal Art for his life's work in the field of medal creation.

Art in public space

Göbel's works in public space include numerous monuments, groups of figures and fountains, which are mainly found in cities in central Germany. His most famous works are:

  • Fortuna fountain in Freiberg (1981–1984)
  • Monument to the young Johann Sebastian Bach on the market square of Arnstadt (1982–1984)
  • Monument to Bertolt Brecht (1976–1981) and Kurt Weill (1995–1997) on Lidice Square in Dessau
  • Figure group "Peace carries life" on the Friedensplatz in Dessau and on the Lichtenhäger Brink in Rostock-Lichtenhagen (1974–1977)
  • Sculptures "Bathers" and "Shirt Removal" in the city park in Dessau
  • "Untimely contemporaries", also "the beginning of a series", in Grimmaische Strasse in Leipzig (1986–1989)
  • Monument to the founder of insurance company Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi on Arnoldiplatz in Gotha , popularly mocked as a hunchback due to his controversial artistic representation with a tense and crooked back (1991)
  • Market fountain ("Göbel-Brunnen") on the Hallmarkt in Halle (1976–1997). The theme is the history of the city of Halle. The depiction of Cardinal Albrecht with his mistress caused heated discussions even before the display in 1998.
  • Fountain "Two Worlds" on the duck plan in Merseburg (2002–2004)
  • Memorial for Countess Juliana zu Stolberg in Stolberg (Harz) (2005/06)
  • Figure groups "Rape of the Sabine Women", "Judgment of Paris" and "Bacchante Scene" in the Breite Weg in Magdeburg (1978–1984)
  • Group of figures for the victims of fascism in the Wernigerode Memorial (1969–1971)
  • Figure group "Large Couple" in Leipziger Strasse in Halle (1973–1976)
  • Console figures at the vocational training center in Neubrandenburg (1975–1980)
  • Sports group for the IOC site in Lausanne (1983–1984)
  • Fountain on the Kornmarkt in Quedlinburg (1985–1990)
  • "The seduction", behind the courtroom in Halberstadt (1996–1998)
  • Fountain on Nicolaiplatz in Wernigerode (2002/03)
  • Floor slab to commemorate the 1933 book burning on Halle University Square (2008)
  • Memorial stele for the Jewish victims on the grounds of the Leopoldina in Halle (2009)
  • Fountain "Keys" on the Weinberg Campus in Halle (2007/08), with the collaboration of Marcus Golter and Carsten Theumer
  • "Water staircase" in Halle-Neustadt (1999–2001), using the figures of the Nasreddin fountain (1974–1977)
  • Volkmann bust in the University Hospital Halle (2008/09)
  • Memorial for Duchess Luise Dorothea at the Wasserkunst in Gotha (2017)
  • Memorial to Joseph von Eichendorff in Halle (2019)

gallery

  • Fortuna fountain in Freiberg

  • Market fountain ("Göbel-Brunnen") in Halle

  • Fountain “Two Worlds” in Merseburg

  • “Peace sustains life” in Dessau

  • “Peace sustains life” in Rostock-Lichtenhagen

  • Arnoldi monument in Gotha

  • Weill monument in Dessau

  • Bach monument in Arnstadt

  • Monument to Julianas zu Stolberg in Stolberg

  • Figure group "Large Couple" in Halle

  • “Untimely Contemporaries” in Leipzig

  • Plastic "sleepers" in Rostock

  • "Water staircase", Hodscha-Nasreddin-Brunnen in Halle-Neustadt

  • Eichendorff monument in Halle

literature

  • Bernd Göbel: Medals 2012-2017: Beauties and incomprehensibility. New medals for the 21st century . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018. ISBN 978-3-95462-949-7 .
  • Bernd Göbel: Various Hell. A sculptor in Germany (autobiography). Halle 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-900-8
  • Bernd Göbel: woodcuts . 1966-2016. With texts by Joachim Penzel. Halle 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-875-9
  • Bernd Göbel: Medals. The changing relationship between old and new. With an essay by Heinz Schönemann and contributions by Wolfgang Steguweit and Ulf Dräger. Halle 2012 ISBN 978-3-89812-916-9 . (With catalog raisonné medals 1966–2011).
  • Bernd Göbel: Sculptures. One among others. With contributions by Joachim Penzel and Marcus Golter. Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-948-0 .
  • Bernd Göbel. Hallescher Kunstverein 2002. (With texts by W. Steguweit, Ulf Dräger, Markus Wesche, Hans-Georg Sehrt, Heinz Schönemann). (Volume 16 from the series The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany )
  • Bernd Göbel, Hans-Georg Sehrt: The Göbel fountain. Origin, passage of time, turbulence. With a foreword from the Mayor of the time, Klaus Peter Rauen . Halle (Saale) 1998, 40 pages, 29 cm × 21 cm, without ISBN, in the holdings of the DNB
  • Giebichenstein Castle. The Halle art school from the beginning to the present. Halle and Karlsruhe 1992, ISBN 3-86105-076-5 .
  • The phenomenon of space. On the trail of Halle's sculpting tradition. Art association "Talstrasse" and Kunstforum Halle, Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-932962-55-4 .
  • Bernd Göbel: Plastic. With articles by Dietrich Schubert, Heinz Schönemann and Bernd Göbel, Burg Giebichenstein - University of Art and Design Halle (ed.), Halle 1992, ISBN 3-86019-002-4
  • The contemporary art medal in Germany . German Society for Medal Art .
    • Volume 1, 1992: The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany 1988–1991.
    • Volume 2, 1994: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The contemporary art medal in Germany 1991–1993.
    • Volume 4, 1996: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The Art Medal in Germany 1993–1995, with additions since 1988. ISBN 3-7861-1926-0 ,
    • Volume 10, 1999: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The Art Medal in Germany 1995–1998. ISBN 3-7861-2329-2 ,
    • Volume 14, 2000: Wolfgang Steguweit (Hrsg.): The medal and commemorative coin of the 20th century in Germany. ISBN 3-88609-443-X and ISBN 3-7861-2387-X .
    • Volume 17, 2002: Medal Art in Halle in the 20th Century , Eds. Martin Heidemann and Wolfgang Steguweit Berlin 2002, German Society for Medal Art, Gebr. Mann Verlag, ISBN 3-7861-2462-0
  • Hans-Georg Sehrt (Ed.): Figure and figurative. contemporary Halle sculpture. Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle 2005. ( Hallescher Kunstverein. 82). (For the exhibition of the Hallesches Kunstverein eV Figure and figurative objects in the Christian-Wolff-Haus, Stadtmuseum Halle from June 12th to July 24th, 2005. Concept, editing: Hans-Georg Sehrt).
  • The rock garden is a sculpture park. Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle / Saale 2005, ISBN 3-932962-24-9 . (Sculptures in the rock garden, art association “Talstrasse” eV, Halle (Saale), duration of the exhibition: June 5 to September 11, 2005. Editor: Matthias Rataiczyk; Christin Wenzel).
  • Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock (editor): The world »in miniature«: German medal art today, 2000–2006. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2 , pp. 301-303. ( The Art Medal in Germany. Vol. 23) (On the occasion of the exhibition Die Welt "en Miniature". German Medal Art Today from July 15 to October 7, 2007 in the Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt).

Web links

Commons : Bernd Göbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.galerie-kontrapost.de/lilac_cms/de/4893,,/Kuenstler/Bernd-Goebel.html
  2. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkkultur-dessau-rosslau.de
  3. ↑ Nataly Bleuel: The Cardinal Question . In: The time . 27/1997. (accessed April 7, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg , Saxony