Franklin Gilliam

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Louis Franklin Gilliam (born April 1, 1944 in Bristol , Virginia , USA ; † January 1997 ) was an American sculptor .

Life

Gilliam attended the University of Tennessee , where he made his Bachelor of Arts in 1966 . From 1966 to 1968 he attended Pennland Schoolcraft .

In 1970 he acquired at the Rhode Iceland School of Art , the Master Degrees of Fine Art , then carried to 1974 teaching assignments for sculpture, printing techniques and art history at St. Francis College in Loretto and the University of Pennsylvania .

In 1974, after a year-long stay in India, he wrote his dissertation on stone art in early Indian Buddhism . From 1975 to 1979 he held a teaching position and professorship at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh .

From 1972 Gilliam visited Tuscany with his students during the semester break , worked in the sculpting studios of Pietrasanta and Carrara , held summer workshops and finally gave up teaching in America to live as a freelance sculptor in Italy . From 1980 he lived partly in Pietrasanta, Tuscany and partly with his wife, the German painter Karin Wiesmann , in Frankfurt am Main . In 1992 he finally moved to Mulino Rotone in Castagneto Carducci (Tuscany), where he opened a large atelier and gave sculpture courses.

His sculptural objects have been shown in numerous exhibitions in America , Italy , Germany, Holland and Japan .

Franklin Gilliam died of cancer in January 1997 at the age of 52.  

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

• 1970: Greenbrier County Art Museum, Greenbrier, West Virginia
• 1970: Hilton Gallery, Nashville
• 1970: St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
• 1972: Elisabeth Slocum Gallery, Johnson City
• 1976: Westmoreland County Museum, Pennsylvania
• 1977: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• 1978: Galerie Gérard Lobet, Paris
• 1979: Oakland County Art Museum, Oakland
• 1980: Zara Galleries, San Francisco
• 1980: Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles

• 1981: Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam
• 1982: Amerikahaus, Frankfurt am Main
• 1983: International sculpture exhibition, Pietrasanta / Carrara
• 1985: Galerie Central, Pisa
• 1986: Galerie Leger, Munich
• 1986: Art Fair, Bologna

• 1988: International Exhibition Museum Wuppertal
• 1988: Günther Kraus Gallery, Stuttgart
• 1989: Banca Italia, Pisa, (with commissioned work)
• 1990: Carolyn Hill Gallery, New York
• 1991: Hill, Tokyo (commissioned)
• 1992: Villa Cinquantina, Cecina
• 1994: Jaeschke Gallery, Braunschweig
• 1994: Hill, Tokyo (commissioned)
• 1995: Oklahoma City Museum, Oklahoma
• 1995: House on the Redoute , Bonn

Architectural contracts and public installations

• Well project (material Georgia granite); Conrad Hilton Hotel, Nashville (1969)

• Commissioned work in bronze; larger than life monument in memory of Mrs. Saint John "A century in the cause of womens rights"; Johnson City Public Library (1970)

• Commissioned work for the Saint Theresa Cathedral, Altoona , on a high relief 3.04 m × 2.44 m, a high sculpture, two facade pieces for the inside and one for the outside; Material bronze; in collaboration with Sister Mary Benedetta, Mount Aloysius College (1972)

• Memorial (material granite and bronze); dedicated to the memory of Virginia Dare Calhoun, Knoxville (1976)

• Sculpture in white Carrara marble for the Henraux Corporation in the Banca d'Italia , Bologna (1977)

• 2nd prize in the competition for a fountain project on Bockenheimer Platz , Frankfurt am Main , 5 meters in diameter with larger-than-life figures; not realized due to planning changes in the city (1984)

• Fountain project “Vegetable Soup Fountain” in the Dr. Birr, Nuremberg , Germany; the diameter is one meter, as the material, natural stones and marble, semi-precious stones and precious stones were used; Spoons, soup and dinner plates were made from Sardinian granite and the dining table from black granite (1986)

• Still life half a meter in diameter with inlaid stone and marble; Foyer of the Société Générale d'Alsace bank in Frankfurt am Main (1988)
• Warrior; abstract sculpture in white Carrara marble; Height 1.5 m; Collection Dr. Hellweg, Frankfurt am Main (1989)
• One meter still life on a granite column (material stone and marble); Tokyo ; exhibited in an office building of the Carolyn Hill Gallery, New York (1990)
• Second installation of a one meter tall still life on a marble column, Tokyo (1992)
• Warrior; large bronze sculpture with different patina on a black marble column; bought from the University Clinic Regensburg (1997)

literature

• Kurt Lotz, Rudi Seitz: Louis Franklin Gilliam. In: The visual artists in Frankfurt am Main. Department of Culture and Leisure, Office for Science and Art, Frankfurt 1982, p. 1953.