Diethelm Koch

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Ball XVII at the ferry terminal in Brunsbüttel , was created in 1996 as part of the Land: Art . Koch developed the size of the sphere from the proportions of the railroad tracks.

Diethelm Koch (born May 22, 1943 in Bochum ; † March 14, 2008 ibid) was a German sculptor and professor at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences .

In his artistic work, Koch primarily dealt with the fundamental plastic elements of the cube, cylinder and sphere. He preferred to work with the opposing materials wood and steel / iron. There are also numerous screen prints, computer drawings, aluminum work and gray cast iron in his work.

Live and act

Diethelm Koch was born on May 22nd as the youngest child of a master confectioner in Bochum. He had an intimate relationship with his brother Hugo, who was ten years older than him and who cared for the younger Diethelm. The industrial Ruhr area determined his childhood and seemed to have a formative effect on his later art. During his school days, he was already carving small figurines and saying in interviews that he wanted to become an artist. After finishing school, Koch began training as a model maker at the Eickhoff machine factory in Bochum. At fifteen he left his parents' home and joined the “migratory bird movement”. After marrying Bärbel Rumpf, Koch implemented his plans to become a sculptor. From 1965 to 1970 he completed a classically influenced course (nude, portrait) at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences with Herbert Volwahsen . Already at this time the first systematic works were created, which also contained the spheres, cube and cylinder, which later increasingly appeared. Diethelm Koch continued his studies in 1970 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with teachers Norbert Kricke and Erwin Heerich . Under Heerich in particular, Koch's formal vocabulary was consolidated, and the artistic language that was to dominate his later work developed.

During his time at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he created the first large-scale sculptures made of wood and steel, which he mostly planned for an exhibition in public space. In collaboration with the curator and art scholar Michael Fehr, two publications on life in urban areas were created.

From 1979 to 1980 Koch had a teaching position at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and then until 1983 at the Münster University of Applied Sciences . He returned to the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences in 1985 with a teaching position until he was appointed professor for the basics of design at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in 1992.

Diethelm Koch died on March 14, 2008 in Bochum.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: Museum Bochum
  • 2009: Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
  • 2008: Museum Bochum
  • 2007: Art Museum Bayreuth
  • 2006: Art from NRW, Aachen-Kornelimünster
  • 2006: Art Association Gelsenkirchen eV
  • 2006: Siegerland Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen

Public collections (selection)

  • Bayreuth, art museum
  • Brno, Masaryk University Art Collection
  • Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall
  • Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast
  • Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
  • Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum
  • Heilbronn, municipal museums
  • Ingolstadt, Museum for Concrete Art
  • Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm Hack Museum
  • Mannheim, art gallery
  • Vaduz, Liechtenstein Art Museum
  • Würzburg, museum in the Kulturspeicher
  • Wuppertal, Von-der-Heydt-Museum

literature

  • Peter Dering (Ed.): Diethelm Koch - sculptor of the concrete. Catalog raisonné II 2006. Chorus, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-931876-72-2 .
  • Marlene Decker (ed.): Diethelm Koch - sculptor of the concrete. Catalog raisonné 1966–2005. Chorus, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-931876-65-9 .
  • Hermann Ühlein: Diethelm Koch: sculpture. Herne 2002, ISBN 3-934940-06-4 .
  • City of Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall (ed.): Diethelm Koch: sculptural sculpture, 1981–1991. Exhibition catalog Museum am Ostwall. Dortmund 1992, ISBN 3-925998-11-X .
  • Dietfried Gerhardus: Image, scheme, construction: on the concept of construction in concrete art using the example of the floor sculpture "Half cylinder III" by Diethelm Koch. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1989, ISBN 3-924555-33-8 . (Art in Röhrig-Verlag Vol. 1)
  • Michael Fehr, Diethelm Koch, Museum Bochum (eds.): About the modern way of life: or, rationalization of life in the modern city. Anabas, Lahn-Giessen 1977, ISBN 3-87038-051-9 .
  • Michael Fehr, Diethelm Koch: Redevelopment of the city, example Bochum. Bochum 1975, DNB 760308330 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael Fehr, Diethelm Koch, Museum Bochum (ed.): About the modern way of life: or, rationalization of life in the modern city. Lahn-Giessen 1977; Michael Fehr, Diethelm Koch: Redevelopment of the city, example Bochum. Bochum 1975.
  2. ↑ http://www.aesthetischepraxis.de/Moderne%20Art/welcome.html
  3. ↑ Biography in: Peter Dering (Ed.): Diethelm Koch - Sculptor of the Concrete: Catalog of Works II 2006. Mainz 2008, p. 9.
  4. ↑ http://www.fh-potsdam.de/presse_archiv_2008.html?&no_cache=1&news_id=1411
  5. ↑ http://www.bochum.de/C125708500379A31/vwContentByKey/W28RBDNJ067BOLDDE?open&MCL=8R9HFM818BOLD ( Memento from May 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Diethelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2008
Place of death Bochum