Bernd Stocker

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Bernd Stöcker (born August 17, 1952 in Bremen ) is a contemporary German sculptor , sculptor and graphic artist who has been working as a freelancer since 1983. His main focus is figurative works in bronze and stone.

Life

From 1974, Bernd Stöcker studied educational science and graphic design with Detlef Birgfeld and sculpture with Ulrich Rückriem in Hamburg , before he turned to study freelance sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Alfred Hrdlicka in 1977 .

Since 1982 he has been traveling regularly to the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux. From 2004 to 2005 he held a teaching position at the professorship for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .

Bernd Stöcker lives and works in Triftern , Lower Bavaria. He is married to the painter and sculptor Ingrid Baumgärtner. The couple has three children.

Awards

  • 1999: Prix Sandoz, Salon d'Automne , Paris
  • 2000: Prix Victoire Sur Socle, Versailles

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Mercury in Hamburg-Rahlstedt
Newspaper reading on the beach in Hamburg-Wandsbek
Werner Otto in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel

Bernd Stöcker's works can be found in various German cities in public spaces and in sacred buildings. Among other things, he created a statically standing, ready-to-take-off Icarus (Puchheim near Munich) and the body-present Christ on the cross with Magdalena crouching ahead (Hildegard Church, Mannheim-Käfertal).

  • 1982: My grandfather , Hamburg , Hamburg cultural authority
  • 1979: Eva , Hamburg-Rahlstedt , local office Rahlstedter Straße 151-157 (stolen in 2010)
  • 2011: Eva (replica from 1979), Hamburg-Rahlstedt , Schweriner Strasse 14 / near the wall terrace
  • 1984: Eva , Stuttgart , Uhlandshöhe (stolen in 2012 and probably destroyed. Recreated by the artist after almost 3 years and ceremoniously re-erected. Fragments of the stolen sculpture were found by the Polish police shortly after the robbery.)
  • 1984: Ingrid , installed in 1991 in Puchheim near Munich, Sprengerinstrasse
  • 1985: Couple of people , Esslingen am Neckar , gallery of the city of Esslingen
  • 1988: Christ figure , Giengen an der Brenz , Heilig-Geist-Kirche
  • 1989: Lukasfigur , Schwäbisch Hall , Lukaskirche, Hauffstrasse 60
  • 1990: Matthias Claudius , Hamburg-Rahlstedt, Oldenfelde district , Wolliner Str. 98
  • 1991: Memorial stone for the penal battalion BW999 , Stetten am kalten Markt , Heuberg
  • 1992: Newspaper reader on the beach , Hamburg-Wandsbek, market square
  • 1993: Mother and child , Hamburg-Eilbek , Maxstrasse / Auenstrasse
  • 1993: Merkursäule (20 m high), Hamburg-Rahlstedt, Merkurpark
  • 1994: Ikarus , Puchheim near Munich, South Business Park
  • 1996: Marienfigur , Munich- Mitte, German Heart Center Munich, Ecumenical Chapel, Lazarettstrasse
  • 1997: Altar, ambo, tabernacle, baptismal font and stations of the cross, St. Teresa , Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen
  • 1998/99: Christ figure , Mannheim-Käfertal , Hildegard Church , Dürkheimerstrasse 88
  • 2001: Matthias Claudius , Hamburg-Wandsbek , market square
  • 2002: Christopherus , Heidelberg, on the Neckar Bridge between Ziegelhausen and Schlierbach
  • 2002: Christophorus on the grave of Stöcker's parents in the cemetery in Hamburg-Rahlstedt
  • 2003: Elias figure , Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen, St. Laurentius, Mühlweg 11
  • 2004: Vespers in the vineyard , Wiesloch , traffic circle at Häusleäcker
  • 2009: Werner Otto , Hamburg-Poppenbüttel , Alstertal shopping center

Exhibitions

literature

  • Bernd Stöcker, Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Weitz: Bernd Stöcker. Sculptures and drawings , Silberburg-Verlag , 1998, ISBN 3925344861
  • Gerhard Fuchs, Michael Pommerening (ed.): Bernd Stöcker. Wandsbeker sculptures , Mühlenbek-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3980746011

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sculpture Eva at rahlstedt.art
  2. ↑ sculpture Matthias Claudius in rahlstedt.art
  3. ^ Mercury column including detailed recordings and interpretation by the artist at rahlstedt.art
  4. ↑ sculpture Christopher at rahlstedt.art
personal data
SURNAME Stöcker, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen