Ewald Brandt

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Ewald Brandt (born November 24, 1928 in Hanover ; † December 17, 1983 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

The seesaw from 1958; in the yard of the special school Erich Kaestner school in Groß-Buchholz
Leapfrog from 1959, in the courtyard of the Albrecht Dürer School on Welfenplatz

Ewald Brandt was born as the son of the painter Paula Brandt . In 1948 he completed a traineeship in a bronze foundry in Düsseldorf in order to study in Braunschweig at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig with Paul Egon Schiffers in 1949 . From 1952 he continued his studies at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Florence .

In 1954, Ewald Brandt set up a studio in Hanover-Bothfeld . In 1960 he received a teaching position at the Werkkunstschule Hannover . In 1972 a teaching position followed at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences . One year later (until 1982) Brandt was a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Hannover and from 1980 onwards was also a lecturer at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences .

In 1979 Brandt had his residence and studio at Burgwedeler Straße 96 in Hanover.

Memberships

Awards

Works

In particular, Ewald Brandt created highly abstracting sculptures , some of which are life-size works in school yards in Hanover, for example

  • Seesaw , 1958, sculpture in the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben School (Ebelingstraße);
  • Leapfrog , 1959 cast of the Erzbildgiesserei Haberland , elementary school on Welfenplatz and
  • Stand in the way , 1966, elementary school on the Horst.

In 1985 Ewald Brandt, who had previously exhibited many times in his own studio and was involved in several exhibitions at the art associations in Hanover and Braunschweig , organized a retrospective of works in the Städtische Galerie Kubus , for which an exhibition catalog was also published;

  • Sculptures and drawings 1948–1982 , exhibition catalog, 1985

literature

  • Heimar Fischer-Gaaden: Ewald Brandt. Sculptures and drawings 1948–1982 , booklet accompanying the exhibition in the KUBUS at the Aegidienkirche from December 1 to 22, 1985, ed. and organized by the Association of Visual Artists Lower Saxony , Hanover 1985: self-published
  • Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): neue plastik in hannover / Kunstsinn, patronage, urban aesthetics / An example in the mirror of two decades , Steinbock-Verlag, Hanover 1967, p. 79 and so on.
  • General Artists Dictionary , Vol. 13, p. 637
  • Ludwig Zerull : Art without a roof , 1992, p. 19, 140
  • Hugo Thielen : Brandt, (2) Ewaldt. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 68; Google books
  • ders .: Brandt, (2) Ewaldt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 79.

Web links

Commons : Ewald Brandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h City Lexicon Hannover
  2. ^ Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 35
  3. ↑ a b c new plastic in hannover ...
  4. ↑ Photo from the base of the plastic
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1983
Place of death Hanover