Christine Stadler

Sculpture in Frankfurt, Ben Gurion Ring on the grounds of SEB AG

Concrete relief in the Munich subway station Bonner Platz

Christine Stadler (* 1922 in Eggstätt ; † 2001 ) was a sculptor and ceramicist .

Life

Christine Stadler spent her youth and school days in Eggstädt. From 1946 to 1948 she attended the Prien art school , after which she trained as a sculptor in Munich . From 1950 to 1956 she completed her artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and finally became a master student of Anton Hiller . Christine Stadler was a member of the jury and board of directors of the German Society for Christian Art and a member of the committee of the International Society for Christian Artists. She died in 2001 and was buried in Eggstätt.

Works

Many church furnishings and works of art in public spaces were created by Christine Stadler. The walls of the Munich subway stations Bonner Platz and Petuelring are decorated with concrete reliefs of her. In Munich she also created two memorials for the Scholl siblings : one from 1962 is in front of the student dormitory on Steinickeweg, the other by the building of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria on Mandlstrasse . Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI. acquired two sculptures by the artist for the garden of his house in Pentling ; Copies were made in the garden of Pope Benedict XVI's house, which had been rededicated as a meeting place . set up.

Honors

• 1982: Schwabing Art Prize
• 1983: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1989: Upper Bavarian Culture Prize
• 1998: Commander in Chief of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great

literature

• Anselm Bilgri , Franz Henrich : Cross and Creature - On the total work of art by Christine Stadler: Sculptures in wood, stone and bronze, mosaics , 1996, Schnell & Steiner, ISBN 978-3795411015
• Steffi Roettgen (Ed.): Sculpture and plastic on Munich's streets and squares. Art in public space 1945–1999 . IDEA-Verlag, Puchheim 2000, ISBN 3-88793-150-5

Web links

Commons : Christine Stadler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Concrete reliefs by Christine Stadler on a subway station
• Untitled sculpture
• Way of the Cross of the Artist ( Memento from February 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard-Theodor Wolf: Christine Stadler. Life and work . Eggstätt 2003.
2. ↑ Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Vol. 1, Literareron, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89675-859-4 , p. 152 ( PDF; 1.1 MB ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
3. ↑ AAS 91 (1999), n.10, p. 1019.