Eberhard Linke

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Eberhard Linke in his studio in August 2006

Eberhard Linke (born February 13, 1937 in Lauban , Silesia ) is a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Eberhard Linke graduated from high school in Salzgitter in 1958 and studied philology for one semester at the University of Göttingen. He then switched to the Free Art School in Stuttgart. He earned his living as a car washer and as a garden and landscape designer. From the winter semester 1959/60 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . His teachers were Gerhard Gollwitzer and Otto Baum . In 1963 he passed the first state examination in art education. In 1963/64 he continued to work as a freelance sculptor in Otto Baum's class. From 1965 to 1972 he was a research assistant in the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Braunschweig under Jürgen Weber . In 1972 he went to the University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Palatinate, Department I Mainz (later: University of Applied Sciences Mainz ). Linke, who was appointed professor in 1974, taught there until his retirement in 2002.

1972–1974 he converted a homestead in Saulheim into his studio. In 1982 a larger studio was added in Flonheim .

Eberhard Linke is a member of the Darmstadt Secession , the Palatinate Secession and the Artists' Association in Germany . He lives and works in Saulheim and Flonheim .

Eberhard Linke has been married to the ceramicist Barbara Hesselbach since 1964. The marriage gave birth to a son.

Honors

  • 1978: Art Prize for Plastic from the Southern Wine Route
  • 1979: Westerwald Prize
  • 1979: Villa Massimo Prize
  • 1983: Sickingen Prize for sculpture from the Kaiserslautern district
  • 1988: Hakone Award of the 2nd International "Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition 1988"
  • 1989: State Prize Rhineland-Palatinate for Art and Architecture
  • 1996: Rhineland Art Prize
  • 2015: Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art
  • 2017: Max Slevogt Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

Solo exhibitions

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literature

  • The sculptor Eberhard Linke. His work in self-testimonials (3 volumes), Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2007. ISBN 978-3-87390-232-9

Giving Rheinhessen a face

"Giving Rheinhessen a face" is the motto of the "Eberhard and Barbara Linke Foundation" for the Rheinhessen anniversary year 2016. For this purpose, Prof. Eberhard Linke designed life-size portrait busts of historical personalities from Rheinhessen from 1790 to 1848, those of Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Dieter Hildebrandt in the Mainz cabaret archive.

The board of the foundation is looking for institutions, companies, cities and communities or individuals who have a thematic reference to the individual portrayed personalities and who take on a sponsorship for these heads. The portraits are available in terracotta, but can be cast in bronze at any time.

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Linke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Eberhard Linke in: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst e. V. , accessed on March 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ medaillenkunst.de: Prizes and Honors / Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art 2015 (accessed on September 19, 2015)
  3. ↑ State Gazette for Rhineland-Palatinate 2017 p. 665
  4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library: Linke, Eberhard
personal data
SURNAME Left, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauban , Silesia