Erich Reischke

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Stone sculpture (1961) made from Kirchheim shell limestone in Gaubüttelbrunn by Erich Reischke on the occasion of the sculptor symposium Kaisersteinbruch
Stone sculpture (1959) by Erich Reischke (?) In the city park of Eindhoven
Untitled Sculpture Symposium Berlin 1961/1962 by Erich Reischke

Erich Reischke (born October 14, 1927 in Pomerania ; † May 20, 2015 in Güstritz ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist.

life and work

Reischke grew up in Western Pomerania and was trained as a stonemason . From 1953 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . After a stay in Italy he did not return to the GDR in 1954 and from 1955 began studying with the sculptor Alexander Gonda at the Berlin School of Fine Arts in what was then West Berlin .

In 1959 he took part in the sculpture symposium St. Margarethen in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland in Austria , where he worked a large stone for the first time. Reischke was one of the stone sculptors who took part in the first sculptor symposium , which was organized by Karl Prantl as the first symposium of European sculptors ever. In 1961 he took part in the first German international sculpture symposium, the Kaisersteinbruch sculpture symposium , in Gaubüttelbrunn in Lower Franconia . Shortly afterwards he was invited to a symposium by a sponsor in Eindhoven , the Netherlands . He was also a participant in the first West German Bildhauersymposion in Gaubüttelbrunn in 1961. In the same year he took Herbert Baumann , Gerson Fehrenbach and Yasuo Mizui on European Symposium sculptors from 1961 to 1963 in Berlin in part, the so-called wall Symposium and the Symposium stone sculpture from 1961 to 1962. During the 1960s he received several commissions for stone sculptures in Berlin and took part in the sculpture symposium of the Kunstverein Springhornhof and in one in the USA , the Vermont International Sculpture Symposium .

Reischke also had contact with the left student movement in West Berlin, u. a. to Ulrich Schmücker .

In 1973 he broke with his previous ideas and moved from Berlin to Güstritz near Wustrow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district , where he was almost self-sufficient in organic farming. There he concentrated on smaller sculptures and stele shapes until he discovered the dodecahedron as a new shape for himself.

Reischke took part in the Hořice sculpture symposium in Hořice in the Czech Republic in 1993, as well as the granite symposium in Milevsko in 1994, in Jindřichův Hradec in 1997 and in Argentina in 1997 and in 2002 in Berlin in the sculpture symposium stones without borders .

His works represent works of abstract art .

Erich Reischke died in Güstritz at the age of 87 and was buried in Satemin . He designed his grave for himself and his wife, who had died a few years earlier.

Works (selection)

Web links

Commons : Erich Reischke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plc4hF4fVjc
  2. ↑ Helmut Koch: Something Different Life , in zero 137, November 2007.
  3. ↑ Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung : "The secret extends", June 20, 2015, p. 4. ( online )
  4. ↑ sculpture symposium
personal data
SURNAME Reischke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2015
Place of death Güstritz