Carsten Eggers
Carsten Eggers (born May 18, 1957 in Stade ) is a German sculptor and painter . He is represented with around 20 realistic bronze sculptures in northern Germany and the Netherlands. The artist's best-known works are the bronze bust of Rudi Carrell and the larger than life monument to boxing legend Max Schmeling .
Life
Carsten Eggers grew up in the Old Country (Jork) as the son of the painter Richard Eggers , decided against an academic career and studied painting with his father. Eggers consistently rejected the art establishment, is not represented in any artist association, acts as a loner. At the age of 17 he designed the coat of arms for the municipality of Jork. In 1980 he expanded his painting to include sculpting with Franz Rotter († 1989) in Cuxhaven, and in 1983 he went on to study sculpture with Karl Heinz Türk at the Free Art Academy in Nürtingen . Since 1991 Carsten Eggers has lived and worked on a rest farm in Nottensdorf in the Stade district.
Works
One of his first large sculptures is the larger than life bronze (Die Wachenden - 1986), a work commissioned by the city of Stade. All other bronzes in public space are characterized by realism . Eggers models his sculptures out of clay. The respective forms are cast in plaster and then in bronze. The clients are cities, municipalities and art sponsors from the private sector. In his works he always focuses on people. Many of his sculptures show figures in everyday situations that are created exclusively from living models. The larger than life bronze sculpture "Monk Heinrich", the founder of the Old Country and a symbol of international understanding, is of historical importance and has been installed in Steinkirchen (Old Country) and Rijnsaterwoude (Netherlands) since 2001.
- Bronze sculptures
Three generations , Rotenburg
Flethenkieker , Buxtehude
The watchers , Stade
Archabbot of Harsefeld
Deichgraf , 2000, Elbe island Krautsand
De ole Schipper , Estebrugge
Features of the bronze sculptures
Typical of Egger's sculptures are their casual poses and minimal exaggeration. “His realism seems to consist in believing that you recognize what the characters represent. But they are neither images nor caricatures. Eggers draws concepts into pictures. Facial expressions, gestures, posture - nothing is coincidental. ”A slightly overdrawn stomach, a few more wrinkles on the face, the nose a bit longer: all of this together has an amazing effect. In the end, the bronze mirror image looks more similar than the original. Art critics refer to Egger's works as "full-body portraits". Art historian Hanns Theodor Flemming († 2005) about the artist: “Carsten Egger's sculptures are the result of artistic design that defy conventional representationalism and draw attention through their liveliness. Its strength is to capture the human strengths and weaknesses. An artist who goes his own way completely detached from current trends. ”The artist himself sees his works as memorials of serenity that stand in opposition to a short-lived and hectic time and thus form an opposite pole.
painting
Carsten Eggers' paintings are thematically diversified. As a painter, he is an eclectic who tried his hand at different styles. The painter's early works are shaped by expressionism . After an impressionistic phase, he combined realistic style elements with those of Pop Art in his later, expressive and strongly colored pictures . His painting is shaped by his months of study trips to America, China, Brazil, France, Madeira, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia. With a different style, he switched to pastel colors, expanded his motifs to include portraits, nudes and elaborate compositions. This resulted in large-format pastels , some of which are up to four meters wide.
Works in public space
- Die Wachenden (Stade, inner city) 1986, bronze, larger than life
- Flethenkieker (Buxtehude, city center) 1989, bronze, life-size
- De ole Schipper (Estebrugge, town center) 1989, bronze, life-size
- Three generations (Rotenburg, city center) 1995, bronze, life-size
- Monk Heinrich (Steinkirchen, St. Martini-et-Nicolai-Kirche) 1992, bronze, larger than life
- Priest Hendrik (Holland, Rijnsaterwoude) 2001, bronze, larger than life
- Deichgraf (Elbinsel Krautsand, Elbdeich) 2000, bronze larger than life
- Liborius (Bremervörde, town center) 1993, bronze, life-size
- Reading monk (Stade, city center) 1987, bronze, life-size
- Recognizing Petrus (Hamburg, inner city) 1999, bronze, life-size
- Bust of Friedrich Huth (Harsefeld, town center) 1998, bronze, larger than life
- Field worker (Deinste, town center) 1993, bronze, larger than life
- Johannis (Neuenkirchen, Church) 1993, bronze, life-size
- Bust of Hermann Rauhe (Hamburg, University of Music and Performing Arts) 1993, life-size bronze
- Skuld (Horneburg, town center) 2005, bronze, life-size
- Rudi Carrell bust (Holland, Alkmaar, Rudi Carrellplaats) 2007, bronze, larger than life
- Erz-Abbot zu Harsefeld (Harsefeld) 2009, bronze, life-size
- Max Schmeling Monument (Hollenstedt) 2010, bronze bust, larger than life
- Schipper Jonny (Hamburg-Rothenburgsort, Marktplatz) Bronze, life-size
Exhibitions
- International Hanseatic Day, Braunschweig City Hall, 1986
- Faces and Views - Museum Altes Land, Jork, 1991
- Fear of death - Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel, September 2006 to February 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotes by cultural scientist and art critic Klaus Frerich in the Eggers newspaper report leaves nothing to chance (Kreiszeitung Wochenblatt)
- ↑ In the end, the mirror image is more similar than the original - art book Art Needs Favor (Maren Wulf)
- ↑ Excerpt from the laudation by the art critic Hanns Theodor Flemming on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Faces and Views of Carsten Eggers in the Museum Altes Land, Jork, 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eggers, Carsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stade |