Eberhard Reppold

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Eberhard Reppold (born March 17, 1934 in Weimar ; † March 18, 2013 there ) was a German sculptor. Its main area of ​​activity was the Thuringian area .

life and work

After successfully attending secondary school, Eberhard Reppold completed an art degree at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , with Theo Balden , among others . Soon he began his career as a sculptor.

In more than 30 years of artistic activity, he created numerous works on themes typical of the time.

Chronological overview of the work
  • 1962: Child with flower , life-size bronze figure in egapark Erfurt , at that time iga
  • around 1965: Dashboard of the Wartburg car . In addition to his sculptural work, Reppold was also an industrial designer .
  • around 1967: Reading girl on the grounds of the egapark (originally set up on Erfurt's Johannesplatz )
  • around 1967: Three Siberian cranes , formerly at the Hohenfelden reservoir . Another cast of the cranes is in Gera on a green area. The sculpture has been in the Berlin Zoo by the anteater enclosure since 1999 . According to information from the Berlin district office in Mitte, it is on loan.
  • 1972 and (unclear): bronze busts for the communist Walter Krämer, murdered by the Nazis, and the writer Thomas Mann
  • 1971: Breakthrough wall at Johannesplatz in Erfurt, designed together with Kurt Grohmann and Klaus Feldmann . It consists of square concrete slabs, worked freely in the middle. The structural stones form a coherent band as a wall, which stands on half-slabs downwards with other halves placed on top.
  • 1974: Floor gymnast , unveiled at the opening of a new school building in Erfurt ( Polytechnic Oberschule W. I. Lenin ). The life-size bronze figure depicts the gymnast Siegfriede Weber-Dempe and was stolen in 2017 or before, along with other works of art by Reppold.
  • 1975: Memorial for members of the Soviet army , inaugurated on May 8, the day of liberation , in the Park on the Ilm in Weimar , honors the soldiers who were killed in the final battles in World War II or who later succumbed to their wounds. It shows a stylized tank and is provided with the following inscription in Russian : "Eternal Glory to Heroes 1941–1945".
  • 1975: Bust for Engelbert Schoner
  • 1984: Cenotaph for the victims of fascism in the main cemetery in Weimar , inaugurated on September 9 (the day of the victims of fascism in the GDR in September ). The relief figures were created by the sculptors Harald Stieding (left side, victims ) and Eberhard Reppold (right side, the resurrected ) based on a graphic by Jürgen Ellenberg.
Hand with chip in Erfurt
  • before 1987: Hand with a chip , the sculpture in front of what was then Funkwerk Erfurt consists of a half-open hand, made of stone or concrete. In the middle, the chip is located like an atomic nucleus , which the hand protects. Hand and chip, mounted on a narrow pedestal, are surrounded by trajectories of electrons symbolized by metal strips around the atomic nucleus.
  • (unclear): Sportswoman in Jena-Lobeda
  • 1998: Goethe sculpture in the stairwell of the New Museum Weimar , restoration of the sculpture made of white marble

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anzeiger des Verein Thüringer Ornithologen , accessed on January 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Events of 2013 in Weimar , (enter "Reppold" in the search window).
  3. ↑ Local council wants readers back , on tlz.de (Thüringische Landeszeitung), 2010; accessed on January 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Where is "The Floor Gymnast"? Weimar police are looking for a statue of the Humboldt Gymnasium. on www.thüringer-Allgemeine.de, February 9, 2017; accessed on January 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Photo of the cranes , accessed on January 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Monument Cranes in the Berlin Zoo ; accessed on January 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Humanity knows no party book in Unser Neue Zeitung (2012); on the occasion of the festive naming of the Medical School Weimar in 1972, which existed until 1990.
  8. ↑ Press release from the City of Weimar from 2009: 60 years ago , accessed on January 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ Kunst am Bau on www.flickr.com; accessed on January 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on the history of the city , text on the memorial for the Soviet soldiers by Eberhard Reppold (p. 127), accessed on January 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ Landscapes and Faces. To the art exhibition of the district of Erfurt. In: Neues Deutschland , June 11, 1975, p. 4
  12. ^ Victims of the Fascism Memorial II on thueringer-naturbrief.de; accessed on January 17, 2019.
  13. ^ Directional instructions / script for a DEFA documentary Erfurt - Faces of a District . The sculpture "Hand with Chip" is definitely mentioned here; accessed on January 18, 2019.
  14. ↑ Death announcements for Eberhard Reppold on www.thueringen-gedenkt.de, March 25, 2013.
  15. ^ Doris Weilandt: Jena-Lobeda - an art walk in the prefabricated building district , on scottyscout.com; accessed on January 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Reppold, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2013
Place of death Weimar