Erich Hauser

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Erich Hauser

Erich Hauser (born December 15, 1930 in Rietheim-Weilheim ; † March 28, 2004 in Rottweil ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Erich Hauser trained as a steel engraver from 1945 to 1948 . He was also instructed in drawing and modeling by Father Ansgar in the Beuron Monastery .

He then studied at the Free Art School in Stuttgart . He attended evening classes in the sculpture class.

Sculpture by Erich Hauser in Kassel, 1972/73

Since 1952 Erich Hauser worked as a freelance sculptor and artist - first in Schramberg , later in Dunningen . He was inspired by sculptures by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Italian-French artist Berto Lardera .

His handling of metals was based on contemporary informal painting in the early 1950s. At first he left clear traces of processing until he discovered the smoothed surface. From 1962 he used industrially prefabricated steel plates. This went hand in hand with the exploration of basic geometric shapes and technical construction elements, which already characterized Hauser's first independent works. From composed surfaces, he created hollow, constructed sculptures with angular ridges and pits, visible from all sides. The sculptures are not accessible. He put the metal set pieces together in such a way that they became regular spatial bodies in the final stage. Spheres, cubes and tetrahedra emerged. These works are characterized by their tendency to break, crumble into rubble, or daring balancing. In 1964, 1968 and 1977 he took part in documenta III , the 4th documenta and documenta 6 in Kassel and thus achieved his artistic breakthrough.

From 1964 to 1965 Erich Hauser was a guest lecturer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . Since then he has often used columns as a motif and discovered the spatial height. Since 1967 he has been designing them from smoothly polished, curved metal disks in the form of longitudinally divided tubes. In 1969 he won the prestigious art prize at the Biennale de São Paulo .

Double column 23/70 , 1970, in front of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich

In 1970 Erich Hauser became a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin . In the same year he moved from Dunningen to Rottweil. There he created his own sculpture park in the so-called saline next to his workshop. His colleague Gerhard Link was his master in processing. The Erich Hauser Art Foundation, founded in 1996, now manages the sculptor's artistic legacy. The works of Hauser and other sculptors are shown on several open Sundays a year.

Hauser also took part in setting up the nationally known Forum Kunst Rottweil .

Since the 1970s he has created numerous works for public spaces, including sculptures in Darmstadt , Hanover , Kiel and Kassel . In 1971 a double room column was created for the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. In 1977 Erich Hauser took over the wall design for the State Library in Berlin.

He accepted commissioned work, but also made small sculptures in sickle or disc-shaped disks on cubic blocks.

From 1984 to 1985 Hauser was a visiting professor at the Berlin University of Fine Arts . In 1986 he was awarded the title of professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg. His sculpture Stahlengel from 1987 in Hanover on the sculpture mile is remarkable . The stainless steel work is 12 m high and 16 m wide.

The Erich Hauser Prize has been awarded by the Erich Hauser Art Foundation , Rottweil, since 2008 . The first prize winner was Ugo Dossi .

Honors

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

  • 7/92 (1992), Jerg Ratgeb Sculpture Path , Herrenberg

  • 12/88 in Heilbronn

  • Steel angel in Hanover

  • Steel sculpture in front of the thermal baths in Bad Bellingen

  • Kunsthalle Mannheim

  • Gelsenkirchen, room columns

  • Nordhorn, double column

  • Duisburg, room column 17/70

  • Schramberg

  • Interior of the Church of St. Maria in Schramberg

  • Group of boulders on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz in Schramberg

  • Bottle stopper around 1980

  • Steel sculpture, Kernerplatz, Stuttgart

literature

  • Knubben, Claudia and Knubben, Jürgen: Erich Hauser - sculptor . Cantz-Verlag, Ostfildern 1995, ISBN 3-89322-806-3 .
  • Hauser, Erich . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 72, 80-81 .

Web links

Commons : Erich Hauser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.
  2. ↑ http://www.rwbilder.de/frame/Veraenderungen/2008/frame.php ( Memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Rottweiler Pictures - Changes 2008
  3. ↑ exhibition catalog PRISMA'70 , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (18 September to 1 November 1970). Fig. 410: Erich Hauser, room column 17/70
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rietheim
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2004
Place of death Rottweil