Elfriede Ducke

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elfriede Ducke (born February 4, 1925 in Leipzig ; † June 13, 2015 there ) was a German sculptor and animal sculptor .

Life

From 1941 to 1945 Elfriede Ducke attended the master school for the creative craft in Leipzig. Her teachers were Alfred Thiele in plastics and Kurt Feuerriegel in ceramics . After the end of the Second World War , she continued her studies from 1946 to 1949 at the Leipzig College of Applied Arts with Alfred Thiele.

From 1952 Elfriede Ducke worked as a freelance sculptor. Her artistic focus was on animal sculpture, whereby she never recorded the impressions gained from observing animals in the open air, but modeled them directly in clay or knocked them out of the stone. She then often had these works molded in bronze . From 1960 to 1984 Ducke formed a studio community with the sculptor Hanna Studnitzka .

In addition to larger works in public space, the artist's works can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, in the German Historical Museum Berlin , in the Görlitz City Art Collections , the Moritzburg Gallery , in the Magdeburg Monastery of Our Lady and in the Leipzig Museum of Natural History .

Elfriede Ducke died at the age of 90. Her urn was buried in the cemetery in Großbothen .

Awards

  • 1962 2nd prize in the small sculptor competition in Berlin

Memberships

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

  • Beaver , Tierpark Berlin

  • Hansel and Gretel , detail of the Märchenbrunnen Leipzig

  • Children playing , Leipzig fountain

  • 1958 sandstone sculpture beaver , Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde
  • 1963 Girl drawing , life-size bronze sculpture
  • 1965 with Hanna Studnitzka: New version of the figures and reliefs of the fairy tale fountain created in 1906 by Josef Mágr , Leipzig
  • 1964 with Hanna Studnitzka: fountain children playing ; Leipzig
  • 1970 Baboon , bronze, 62 × 50 × 45 cm
  • 1975 Flock of sheep , bronze, 10 × 40 × 23 cm
  • 1991 Pug sitting on a cushion, bronze, 10 × 10.5 × 12.5 cm
  • 1992 Greyhound , bronze

Web links

Commons : Elfriede Ducke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Günter Meißner (ed.): Leipzig contemporary artists. Seemann, Leipzig 1977.
  • Rita Jorek (Ed.): Elfriede Ducke. Animal sculptures. GEDOK Leipzig / Saxony, Leipzig 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the Leipziger Volkszeitung, June 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Duck, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and animal sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2015
Place of death Leipzig