Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler

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Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler (born April 22, 1912 in Thale ; † June 13, 2000 in Baden-Baden ) was a German sculptor and medalist . She was employed as the first cathedral sculptor at the Cologne Dombauhütte and created several sculptures on the west and south sides of the Cologne Cathedral . She created the sculptures of Theophanu and Agilolf of Cologne for the newly designed figural decoration of the Cologne town hall tower .

Life

Dreikönigsportal at Cologne Cathedral : Job (left), Queen of Sheba (center)

After her school education in a boarding school and a private training in painting and graphics in Zurich and Dresden , she began a two-year course at the Weimar Art Academy in 1931 . Here she was decisively influenced by Richard Engelmann . After Engelmann was no longer allowed to train students in Weimar, she continued her studies at the United State School for Free and Applied Arts with Wilhelm Gerstel in Berlin in 1933 . After completing her studies in 1939, she went to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart as a master class student of Fritz von Graevenitz . In 1941 she opened her first studio in Berlin. During the war she worked on a number of small, private commissions, mostly in the form of portraits of children. In 1943 she began to teach drawing and plastic design to students in Thale. After marrying the doctor Alexander Baumeister (1895–1957), she moved to Weimar, where she took part in exhibitions with small sculptures. After a short stay in Berlin, she moved to Cologne in 1951, where she initially worked in her husband's medical practice. After his death, in 1958, she was the first woman to be employed as a cathedral sculptor at the cathedral building works of Cologne Cathedral. On behalf of the cathedral builder Willy Weyres , she created several large sculptures for the Dreikönigsportal. In the area of ​​the south portal, she restored numerous figures damaged in the war and numerous archivolts in the Gothic window arches.

Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler created numerous sculptures, fountains, reliefs, grave monuments, designs for doors, door handles and portals as well as portraits in various materials for private and public commissions. As part of the new conception of the figurative decorations on the Cologne town hall tower , she was given the task of creating the sculptures of Theophanu and Agilolf of Cologne .

Family grave in Cologne's southern cemetery

Together with Kurt-Wolf von Borries , Heribert Calleen , Heide Dobberkau , Hildegard Domizlaff , Hans Karl Burgeff and others, Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler was one of the most important representatives of Cologne medal art of the 20th century.

The artist was a member of the International Lyceum Club Cologne, which emerged from the Cologne women's club founded in 1902.

Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler was buried in her husband's grave in Cologne's southern cemetery (hall 43).

Works

Arnold-von-Siegen-Brunnen
City hall tower Cologne: Agilolf figure
Gotha fountain

Work on Cologne Cathedral (1958 to 1962)

  • Abel
  • Japhet
  • Job
  • Queen of Sheba
  • Heads of the Figures of the Old Testament
  • Heads of the figures of the Magi
  • Head of St. Ursula
  • Head of St. Caecila
  • Head of King Melchior
  • Head of Josias
  • Head of King David
  • Head of the widow of Sarepta and Melchizedech .

Figures at the Cologne City Hall Tower

  • Theophanu
  • Agilolf of Cologne

Fountain

  • Gothaer Brunnen (Fischbrunnen), Cologne (1971/72)
  • Arnold von Siegen-Brunnen , Cologne (1962)

Sculptures and medals (selection)

Exhibitions

further exhibitions: Cologne ( GEDOK ), Berlin, Düsseldorf , Munich , Hattingen .

Honors

In Cologne-Lövenich the Baumeister-Bühler-Straße was named after her.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler . In: Bernhard F. Löwenberg: Cologne personalities 2 . Edition Cologne, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-931246-01-9 , p. 17.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler . In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 44.
  3. ^ Gerhard Kolberg, Karin Schuller-Procopovici: Sculpture in Cologne: images of the 20th century in the cityscape . Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1988, p. 25
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit: The art medal of the present in Germany: Medal art in Cologne in the 20th century . Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2568-6 , 343 pp.

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personal data
SURNAME Baumeister-Bühler, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühler, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Thale
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2000
Place of death Baden-Baden