Emanuel Scharfenberg

Emanuel Scharfenberg (born July 27, 1932 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia , † July 30, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Fountain with “Fontanebogen” in front of the Fontane House in the Märkisches Viertel , Berlin

" Water mushroom ", Leon-Jessel-Platz , Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Emanuel Scharfenberg spent his childhood in the Giant Mountains in the turmoil of the Second World War and at the age of 13 saw the invasion of the Red Army . On the run with his mother and sister he reached Thuringia, where the family settled in Erfurt. There Scharfenberg began an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor in 1947. In 1949 he switched to the state wood sculptor's technical school in Empfertshausen an der Rhön, where he completed his training in free plastic design in 1951. Dislike the political system that was being established in East Germany, he broke off his training as a master craftsman and moved to West Berlin, where he began to study sculpture at the Hochschule der Künste . Before completing his studies, however, he switched to the master school for handicrafts, where he finished his studies in sculpture in 1955 with the state examination.

At the beginning of his professional career, he received an order from the Berlin Senate to design two fountains. He was involved in the reconstruction of the Charlottenburg Palace for more than 25 years, for example in the restoration of the decorative Baroque and Rococo carvings in the living and representation rooms in the central building of the Knobelsdorff wing. As part of this work, he took part from June 28 to August 31, 1980 in an exhibition in the gallery in the Cismar monastery under the title Berliner Sculptors from Charlottenburg Palace . The focus was on the restoration and the posthumous implementation of a planning concept from 1705 , in which six sculptors were involved, who presented both their work in the reconstruction of the palace as a monument as well as their own sculptural work. In addition to Emanuel Scharfenberg, Katharina Szelinski-Singer , Karl Bobek , Joachim Dunkel, Harald Haacke and Günter Anlauf were represented.

Community grave

He liked to choose large formats for his self-designed work, and the environment and nature were also included in the design process. Scharfenberg was a member of the Plastik 71 group, the K19 factory and the BBK.

He was also internationally successful with his work, for example with the "Tree Torso" in Kyoto , Japan . In Berlin, Scharfenberg's works helped shape public space from the post-war years to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

They were buried in a common grave in the Grunewald cemetery .

List of works

Dated works

• White Wehe, 1977, Berlin-Ruhleben
• Extension, bronze, 1979, cast by Noack, Erfurter Straße 8, Berlin, rear side entrance of the health department
• Elefantenbaum, 1981, bronze, Rubensstrasse  125, Auguste Viktoria Hospital , sculpture garden (loan from the Berlin Senate, first location was in the sculpture garden on the exhibition grounds)
• Wasserpilz, 1984, bronze, with a height of 2.60 meters, Leon-Jessel-Platz , Berlin-Wilmersdorf
• Element block (element cube), bronze fountain sculpture, 1983/1987, Bismarckplatz 1, at the Federal Environment Agency in Berlin-Grunewald
• Floor sculpture environment, 1983–1990, cast iron, Einsteinufer 17–19, Berlin, between the TU Institute for Electrical Engineering and the Landwehr Canal
• Fontanebogen, bronze fountain sculpture with a height of 4.60 meters, 1992, market square in Berlin in the Märkisches Viertel
• Memorial for Magnus Hirschfeld based on a design by August Jäkel , 1995, Otto-Suhr-Allee  93, Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Bronze cube as a symbol for the Great DAI Prize for Building Culture from the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations , 2004

Undated works

• Memorial plaque for Hermann Sudermann and Rolf Lauckner , with the relief image of Sudermann, Bettinastraße 3, Berlin-Grunewald

Web links

Commons : Emanuel Scharfenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
• berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf
• dai.org
• stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
• Obituary ( Memento of August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 86 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Joachim Arndt: Art in the monastery Cismar. Berlin sculptors from the Charlottenburg Palace exhibit. In: Kurzeitung Grömitz , No. 4, 1980, special edition Galerie Kloster Cismar.