Edmund Puchner

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Edmund Puchner (born July 12, 1932 in Axams ; † January 9, 2014 ) was an academic sculptor and painter who worked in Munich.

life and work

After an apprenticeship in Tyrolean glass painting (1945) and subsequent training as a stone sculptor , Puchner came to Munich in 1954. There he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich until 1961 . He was a master student with Anton Hiller and Georg Brenninger and received a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria. From 1962 he worked as a freelance sculptor and painter in Munich- Schwabing , from 1985 to 2011 in his studio with a sculpture garden in Keferstraße . He took over the property in 1980 from a landscape gardener and converted the building and shed on it into a studio and residential building. Among other things, he used the roof tiles from Olaf Gulbransson's house in the neighborhood . In 2011 the property was demolished.

Market fountain in Röhrnbach, 1990
Water xylophone, Karl-Marx-Ring 27 Munich, 1970

Edmund Puchner took part in invited and free competitions early on and received numerous prizes, including the first prize for the Andreas Hofer monument in Mantua (which was not realized). He also developed numerous works of art in public spaces with architectural space design in Munich, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Important work was done in collaboration with the Plankreis office, including award-winning plaza designs and fountains in Tittmoning and the New Market Square in Trostberg (1st prize). In the Munich area he created fountains and designs with the landscape architects Gottfried and Toni Hansjakob (several fountains in Neuperlach and Fasanengarten).

Some grave monuments on the Munich Israelite cemetery testify to his craftsmanship and artistic creativity . a. for the Russian artist Arkadi Chait, who are close friends with him, and the Vinokurow family of gallery owners. In 2003 he created a marble stone with a colored pyramid at the Munich North Cemetery for the Munich scientist Frederic Vester , with whom he also enjoyed a long friendship and intellectual exchange.

In addition to almost classic-looking bronzes and iron sculptures, Edmund Puchner has been working increasingly on colored wooden sculptures since the 1990s. He creates playful shapes out of limewood, balancing each other like music on the viewer. In parallel to the sculptural work, painterly or graphic designs were created over and over again. The works are in dialogue with each other and build tension and a versatile language of colors and shapes.

Richard C. Schneider's film "The Artist Edmund Puchner" (in: "Myth Schwabing". Bavarian Television, April 2004) shows a sensitive portrait of his work .

The daughter Christine (1960–2016) comes from his first marriage to the Sollner painter and glass mosaic artist Felicitas Pütz, and from a later relationship his daughter Maja Eidmann-Bluhm (* 1967) comes from.

In 2013 Edmund Puchner married his long-time companion Gabriele Harrer for the second time. Since his death in January 2014, his works and the last studio have been looked after as a collection by Gabriele Harrer-Puchner and should remain accessible to the public. An edition of his most important works is in preparation.

Exhibitions

  • 1995: Edmund Puchner and Franz Rumer. Joint exhibition , Tyrolean Art Pavilion , Innsbruck
  • 1996: Members of the Tyrolean Artists, a. a. Edmund Puchner. Group exhibition, Tyrolean Art Pavilion, Innsbruck

Awards

Works in public space (selection)

  • Fountain in Cosimapark, Munich
  • Fountain in the Fasanenparkiedlung, Munich
  • Fountain in Heßstrasse, Munich
  • Fountain in Schützenstrasse, Munich
  • Marktbrunnen, Röhrnbach , 1990
  • Square design and fountain, Tittmoning
  • Square design and pigeon fountain , granite and bronze, Neuer Marktplatz, Trostberg , 1988
  • Fountain water xylophone , granite and bronze, Karl-Marx-Ring 27, Munich Perlach, 1970
  • Arkadi Chait grave monument, New Israelitischer Friedhof Munich
  • Grave monument, gallery owner family Vinokurow, New Israelitischer Friedhof Munich
  • Frederic Vester's grave monument, Nordfriedhof Munich, 2003

literature

  • Tyrolean sculptor. Plastic work in North, South and East Tyrol . Tyrolean Artists (Ed.), Funded by the Cultural Department of the State of Tyrol and the Federal Ministry for Education and Art, Wort- und Welt-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978.
  • Otto Josef Bistritzki: Fountain in Munich . Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1974, ISBN 978-3766703033 .
  • Art and objects in public spaces . Documentation series Urban development in Lower Bavaria, No. 13. Government of Lower Bavaria (Ed.), Landshut 1994.
  • Franz Kotteder: In the realm of the small arts . In: Munich. The city districts, past and present . Martin Bernstein, Wolfgang Görl, Joachim Käppner (Eds.). Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3866158894 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Obituary notice Edmund Puchner . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 15, 2014. Accessed February 17, 2018
  2. ^ Franz Kotteder : Schwabing studio. An oasis disappears . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 1, 2011. Retrieved on February 17, 2018
  3. ↑ Vanessa Assmann: Out for artist idyll . In: Abendzeitung of May 20, 2011. Retrieved on February 17, 2018
  4. ↑ a b Foundation for historical churchyards and cemeteries in Berlin-Brandenburg: Nordfriedhof - graves of famous personalities in Munich. No. 23 Frederic Vester . Retrieved February 17, 2018
  5. ↑ a b City Administration Munich: Schwabinger Art Awards 2011 . Retrieved February 17, 2018
  6. ↑ City Trostberg: Art places in Trostberg. Pigeon fountain, number 12 . Retrieved February 17, 2018
  7. ^ Program workshop Kulturhaus Ramersdorf-Perlach: Works of art in Perlach. Puchner, Edmund . Retrieved February 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Puchner, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Axams
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2014