Eberhard Fiebig

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Untitled (1988). Gelsenkirchen
Gate of Earthly Peace (1987). kassel

Eberhard Fiebig (born March 1, 1930 in Bad Harzburg ) is a German sculptor.

life and work

Eberhard Fiebig earned his living as a farmer , woodcutter and traveling salesman . Since 1949 he worked as a chemical laboratory assistant. The first sculptures were created in 1947 . In 1960 he gave up his job in the chemical industry and became a freelance artist. In 1963 Fiebig moved to Frankfurt , where he studied philosophy and attended lectures by Theodor Adorno and Bruno Liebrucks , among others .

Eberhard Fiebig has been developing cycles of sculpture types since the 1960s. Inspired by the American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller , Fiebig designs Tensegrity constructions - structures that achieve their stability through the opposing forces of tension. In 1964 Fiebig achieved an international breakthrough with its sheet steel folds. The basic shapes, which he will vary again and again, include nodes, gates and pillars. Many of his steel sculptures are set up in public spaces, especially in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel. These include in particular the Gate of Earthly Peace (1987), portal of the University of Kassel - with a weight of 100 tons, one of the heaviest steel sculptures there is. The 20 meter sculpture Große Wuwa (1997) is installed in front of the Ministry of Defense in Bonn, Caryatide (1987) in front of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , the place for the big perforation is the Alte Oper Frankfurt , Aurora (1986) stands in front of the new one Gallery (Kassel) . In 2008 Eberhard Fiebig realized a pedestrian bridge (40 meters) in Rietberg, in 2015 the Gate of Joy (1995) was installed on the Germania Campus Münster.

In 1967 Fiebig organized demos for Benno Ohnesorg , who was shot dead in a police action during the student riots. In cooperation with the Darmstadt data center, Fiebig systematized and automated the transformation of flat figures. This work earned him the support of large industrial and IT groups. From 1970 Fiebig also worked as a publicist and photographer , concentrating on political and socially critical aspects.

From 1974 to 1995 he worked as a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel . Markus Zürcher was one of his most important students. In 1986 Fiebig founded the art engineering atelier with Dorothea Wickel and Paul Bliese , which concentrated on the computer-aided construction of steel sculptures. Fiebig uses industrial CAD software for this. Since 1998 Eberhard Fiebig lived with his second wife, the painter Dorothea Wickel, on a former barracks site in Hannoversch Münden . In 1999 he presented an alternative to the planned and hotly debated Holocaust memorial in Berlin , which was negotiated in the Bundestag. Fiebig has lived and worked in Kassel since 2006.

Parts of his extensive written papers are in the archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum .

literature

  • Eberhard Fiebig. Works and documents. Plea for an intelligent art . Verlag Cantz, 1996 (on the occasion of a series of exhibitions in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg , in the Documenta-Halle, Kassel, and in the Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt)
  • Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 ( cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , vol. 2), pp. 127–130.

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personal data
SURNAME Fiebig, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Harzburg