Erik Neukirchner

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Erik Neukirchner (* 1972 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German sculptor .

Biographical

After completing his professional training as a mechanical engineer, Erik Neukirchner worked as a freelance sculptor in Chemnitz since 1994 . That year he initiated a project to build a playground for blind children. This was preceded by his community service in the rehabilitation center for the blind in his hometown.

Beginning in 1997, Neukirchner completed a guest study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . In 2001 he founded his own bronze foundry "Bronzeguss Chemnitz".

He now lives in Hennersdorf , where he set up a workshop and studio in 2013 in the “old school”.

The sculptor Johannes Belz (1925–1976) was his grandfather.

Art style

The art scholar Susanne Hebecker describes Neukirchner's work as “a renewed formal radicalism and independence of figurative sculpture. In his ideal modulations, a new physical landscape emerges, an almost Gothic delicacy, in which even the terrible consequences of war and violence are impressively captured. As an artist he has developed his own aesthetic style with which he responds to the circumstances of the socio-cultural situation in which he lives and reacts in a way that is both participation and resistance. "

Neukirchner's sculptures stand out due to their rough surfaces that appear unfinished. In addition, they are mostly very slim and mostly unclothed figures.

Since 2014 he has been working increasingly with animal sculptures.

Works (selection)

Neukirchner works his sculptures almost exclusively in bronze .

Miner's cow Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
  • 2000: new portal sculptures on Georgius Agricola gymnasium Chemnitz (two characters from fired ceramics in red-brown to brown-black shades that are mounted in each of the four floors alongside the staircase windows on the facade, according to models of the NS-time remote art of Artist Heinrich Brenner )
  • 2005: Beautiful failure I, II and III ; Standing figure , small bust
  • 2006: Memory of M. , death mask with hands
  • 2007: Richard , Kasperkopf
  • 2008: prelude , walker , spa guest , dream of flying
  • 2009: tall walker , Eva
  • 2010: Hope , pregnant women , little pregnant women , figure with arms raised
  • 2011: Moving figure , resting head , portrait head
  • 2012: “ Only the dead saw the end of the war ”, Ecce homo (for AY) , lamb
  • 2013: Lobster claws (relief), cat mummy I and cat mummy II ( reliefs )
  • 2014: Hennersdorfer Huhn , Hennersdorfer Hahn , Hahn , Huhn I, II and III
  • 2015: Old Rooster , Old Chicken , Chicken Heads (relief)
  • 2016: little goat , goat , young bull
  • 2017: Bird mummy (relief), Little Man of Sorrows , Man of Sorrows
  • 2018: Miner's cow (for the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. ), Head , portrait of a young lady
  • 2019: bird , cat , girl with scarf

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (G) and solo exhibitions (S)

  • (G) 1997: Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz
(G) Chemnitz art fair
  • (G) 2000: Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz
  • (G) 2002: Galerie Rosenkranz, Chemnitz: Figure and Position (together with Heinz Tetzner , Hans Brockhage and Volkmar Kühn )
  • (S) 2005: (First) personal exhibition
  • (S) 2008: Bad Kissingen Art stations: Blickwechsel - Images of Man after Classical Modernism
  • (G) 2011: Städtische galerie ada, Meiningen : Mountains and Creatures with Konrad Henker
(G) Art gallery Altes Rathaus, Schwarzenbach an der Saale , joint exhibition with Bettina Haller
(S) Galerie Borssenanger Chemnitz: Plastic
  • (G) 2019: Art exhibition in the "Alte Schule zu Hennersdorf": collages (Siegmund Hammermann) and bronze sculptures (Erik Neukirchner)
(S) Art exhibition in the "Alte Apotheke Augustusburg": bronze sculpture

Awards

In 1995 Neukirchner received the Saxon State Prize for Design in Bronze. The exhibitions in the Neue Sächsische Galerie (1997, 2000) were each awarded the Ruth Leibnitz Prize .

literature

  • Ralf-Michael Seele (Ed.): Erik Neukirchner. (Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Mountains and Creatures, Young Positions of the Realistic, Konrad Henker - Etchings, Erik Neukirchner - Bronze Sculptures in the Municipal Gallery ADA Meiningen from April 30 to July 31, 2011), Meiningen 2011. ISBN 978-3- 934495-20-3
  • Antonia Krüger: The sculptor in the 'Old School in Hennersdorf' , in: Kultur- und Heimatverein Hennersdorf e. V. (Ed.): 180 years "Old School" in Hennersdorf. Augustusburg 2018, DNB 1160487901 , pp. 117–126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mandy Fischer: After dismantling: This is how the rattle fountain should continue , Freie Presse , Chemnitzer Zeitung of February 12, 2020, p. 10.
  2. ^ Curator of the exhibition in the Kulturhaus Karlshorst, quoted in the press release of the district office of November 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Tilo Richter: From the return of the double youth ( memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Details and images of the new bronze figures at Agricola-Gymnasium on Stadtstreicher-Magazin , online; Retrieved Nov. 9, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtstreicher.de
  4. ↑ Matthias Zwarg : The goat as the little people's cow , in: Freie Presse from August 14, 2020, page A2.
  5. ↑ Details on the exhibition Sinn und Form ; Retrieved Nov. 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Neukirchner, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City