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Doris Waschk-Balz (born November 26, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Heilbronn, she began studying with Ulrich Günther (ceramics) and Rudolf Daudert (sculpture) at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1962 . She continued this with Gustav Seitz , a student of her grandfather Wilhelm Gerstel's , at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1964. She has been a freelance artist since 1968. She also works as a jury member at art competitions.

She lives in Hamburg with her husband, the draftsman and book illustrator Klaus Waschk .

Artistic creation

Ottenser Archway , Hamburg, 1980

The most important element in her often multi-part and differently combinable works made of terracotta and bronze is the play with perspective, with figures and landscape.

The works of Doris Waschk-Balz are present as sculptures, fountains and monuments in public places in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. At the Großneumarkt in Hamburg there is a bronze fountain with a spiral staircase, on the steps of which the artist placed figures of different sizes. The "Ottenser Torbogen" at the Spritzenplatz in Hamburg-Ottensen , a bronze sculpture in which a seated and a walking woman share an archway, has shaped the image of the district since 1980. In 1985 she conceived the extensive artistic design project for the Essener Straße housing estate in Hamburg-Langenhorn with 12 individual sculptures and a large group of sculptures. In addition, the Ahrensburg District Court, the Lüneburg University of Applied Sciences, the Heide telecommunications office and the Uelzen regional central bank are decorated with works of art by Doris Waschk-Balz.

As a memorial, the synagogue memorial (1982) on Oberstrasse in Hamburg shows a torn Torah shrine curtain with a Torah scroll and is intended to remember that the temple synagogue from 1931 (built by the architects Felix Ascher and Robert Friedman; today Rolf Liebermann Studio of the NDR) desecrated but not destroyed. In 1989 she designed the memorial for the destruction of the synagogue in Goethestrasse in Kiel.

Waschk-Balz is also involved in coin design. In addition to the design of commemorative coins, her designs are minted in commemorative coins. A series of five coins to commemorate the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich was started as commemorative coins for the Federal Republic of Germany . The motif of the fourth coin was designed by Waschk-Balz.

In April 2006, the jury of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning initially favored the design by Waschk-Balz (tower of Michaeliskirche with the silhouette of the other main churches) for the Hamburg motif of the two-euro commemorative coin from the series “The Federal States”. However, since the St. Michaeliskirche was to be represented as Hamburg's landmark alone, and Waschk-Balz rejected a change, the design by Erich Ott finally won the race.

In the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, the design and manufacture of coins are presented in a showcase using original working models and tools from the Waschk-Balz studio.

Works

Art in public space

Memorial at the Oberstrasse temple building
Sculpture group on the Käkenhof on the Käkenflur in Hamburg-Langenhorn
  • 1967, group of figures, Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
  • 1967, interior courtyard design, Sprötze elementary school
  • 1970, male torso (ascending), Osdorfer Born, Hamburg
  • 1974, memorial plaque Alexis de Chateauneuf, Alte Post, Hamburg
  • 1974, communication center (relief column, etc.), Bergedorf-Lohbrügge school center
  • 1976, bronze group on Jenfelder Marktplatz, Hamburg
  • 1979, fountain on the Großneumarkt , Hamburg
  • 1980, figures, Ottenser archway, Ottensen, Hamburg
  • 1983, fountain on Veddeler Stieg, Hamburg
  • 1983, memorial in front of the former synagogue on Oberstrasse , Hamburg
  • 1984, group of figures, old people's home (former work and poor house III), Farmsen, Hamburg
  • 1985, artistic design of the housing estates Essener Strasse, Bochumer Weg, Dortmunder Strasse, Duisburger Strasse, Walter-Schmedemann-Strasse, Käkenflur in Hamburg-Langenhorn
  • 1986, figure group, Lüneburg University of Applied Sciences
  • 1987, group of figures, Ahrensburg District Court
  • 1988, male figure in front of a wall, telecommunications office Heide
  • 1989, memorial for the destruction of the synagogue in Goethestrasse, Kiel
  • 1991, three bronze sculptures, Landeszentralbank Uelzen
  • 1996, stele window, sculpture park, Rendsburg
  • 1997, relief on the history of the city of Ratingen
  • 2001 (or later) sculpture “Memory” (pillar with two figures) in the rose pavilion of the women's garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery
  • 2008, tombstone Peter Rühmkorf and Eva Rühmkorf , Altona main cemetery
  • 2012, relief in the main altar of St. Nikolaikirche Stralsund

Coin design

5 DM 1974 D silver coin for the 250th birthday of the philosopher Immanuel Kant in Königsberg
Olympiastadion Munich , commemorative coin for the 1972 Summer Olympics
  • 1968, five D-Mark commemorative coin for the 500th anniversary of the death of Johannes Gutenberg
  • 1969, commemorative coin commemorating the 375th anniversary of Gerhard Mercator's death
  • 1971, ten D-Mark commemorative coin for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 4th motif
  • 1973, five D-Mark commemorative coin for the 250th birthday of Immanuel Kant
  • 2000, ten D-Mark commemorative coin commemorating 10 years of German unity

Medal design

Fountain on the Großneumarkt

Portraits

literature

  • Ulrike Evers: German women artists of the 20th century. Painting, sculpture, tapestry . Ludwig Schutheis Verlag, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-920855-01-9 .
  • Jewish Community Hamburg (ed.): Inauguration of the monument of the former synagogue in Oberstrasse . Hamburg 1983.
  • Volker Plagemann (ed.): Art in public space. Impetus from the 80s . Cologne 1989.
  • Press office of the Supply and Transport Kiel GmbH (VVK) (Ed.): Documentation on the history of the Kiel synagogue and the memorial at Goethestrasse 13 . Kiel 1992.
  • Jewish Museum / Dr. Bamberger-Haus, Rendsburg (ed.): Doris Waschk-Balz, sculptures and drawings 1986–1996 . Introduction by Dr. Maike Bruhns, Hamburg 1996.
  • Ursula Prückner: Doris Waschk-Balz, plastic or bus stop . In: Lustwandeln in Ottensen . Hamburg 1996.
  • Volker Plagemann (ed.): Art in public space. A guide through the city of Hamburg . Hamburg 1997.
  • Lichtwark Forum in the DG-Hyp (ed.): Doris Waschk-Balz, works for public space . Catalog for the exhibition with an introduction by Volker Plagemann, Hamburg 2001.
  • Kay Rump (Ed.): The New Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Revised new edition of the lexicon by Ernst Rump (1912). Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 .
  • Gerd Dethlefs / Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): GeldKunst-KunstGeld. German commemorative coins since 1949. Design and designer . Numismatischer Verlag Fritz Rudolf Künker, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 3-9801644-7-0 .

Web links

Commons : Doris Waschk-Balz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Doris Waschk courtship. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 15, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Figures and Landscapes - Historical Archive No. 16 of July 14, 1999 ( Memento of October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Kulturkarte.de
  4. ↑ Coin magazine ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.muenzenmagazin.de
  5. ↑ several objects in the Langenhorn archive
  6. ^ Sculpture "Memory" at garten-der-frauen.de , section "The Garden"
personal data
SURNAME Laundry courtship, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin