Bruno Kubas

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Bruno Kubas (born September 15, 1928 in Dahlenberg , Saxony , † June 20, 2011 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Bruno Kuba's farm laborer son grew up on the Dahlenberg manor. On the advice of his father, he attended business school in Leipzig from 1943 to 1944. In 1945, at the age of sixteen, he served as a flak helper in the German Wehrmacht.

After the end of the war, he met his later partner Anna Goldschmidt († 1998) from the Bohemian crystal glass town of Gablonz . He worked as a farm worker until 1949.

Afterwards, Kubas studied five years at the Technical School for Applied Arts in Leipzig in Alfred Thiele's sculpture class . He then completed additional training as a stone sculptor. He worked on the outer wall frieze of the Leipzig Opera House . In 1956 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . Soon afterwards he left Leipzig and returned to his home village of Dahlenberg. With the fee for the interior wall design of the "Leipzig Information" he built a house with a studio extension in Dahlenberg, An der Pleckmühle 3.

Works

Cat in Bad Schmiedeberg
Wall relief at Trossin Castle
  • Flute player
  • Lovers
  • Playing children
  • Bronze relief on the Trossiner Volksgut
  • Interior wall design of the Leipzig Information, approx. 50 m² copper drifting work
  • Cat in Bad Schmiedeberg , bronze casting, 1958
  • Portrait relief Hans Beimler

In the early 1970s, Kubas turned away from sculpture and more towards clay. His works were made in the Dommitzsch pottery factory ("Töppchenbude").

Dommitz goose fountain
Wall design in the entrance area of ​​the Dommitzsch pottery factory
  • Altar, ambo and a cross for the Pretzsch Catholic Chapel , clay, 1974
  • Bust of Luis Corvalan , cast bronze, 1977, 43 cm
  • Fountain "Conny", Wildlife Park Leipzig -Connewitz, Ton, 1979
  • Beaver, cast bronze, 1982
  • Relief at the Teufelsmühle in Großwig
  • Dommitzscher Gänsebrunnen, Ton, 1983
  • Fountain “Peace, Family, Children”, Gießerplatz (Antonienstraße and Gießerstraße) Leipzig-Plagwitz , Ton, 1984
  • Wall design in the entrance area of ​​the Dommitzsch pottery factory, Ton
  • Wall relief in Warschauer Strasse in Torgau
  • Fischerstele at the Horstsee in Wermsdorf , Ton, 1986, 5 m high, inaugurated on October 7, 1986
  • Fountain for the Dommitzsch earthenware factory, Ton, 1988
  • Hirtenborn in Dahlenberg, Ton, 1993
  • Neighbor beer fountain in Dahlenberg, Ton, 1994

literature

  • Leo Fiege: Bruno Kubas . In: Documentation series of the Torgau Art and Culture Association "Johann Kentmann" . tape 2 . Torgau Art and Culture Association "Johann Kentmann", Torgau 1998.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Kubas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Freche: In memory of Bruno Kubas. (PDF, 101 kB) (No longer available online.) In: kleine-galerie-torgau.de. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; Retrieved October 20, 2014 . 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.kleine-galerie-torgau.de
personal data
SURNAME Cubas, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahlenberg , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2011