Franz Günter Lossow

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Cologne City Hall . Entrance to the Spanish building from the town hall square. Door garments: ear reliefs by Günter Lossow.
Balcony at the Prophet's Chamber of Cologne City Hall. Design: Günter Lossow

Günter Franz Lossow (born March 27, 1925 in Cologne , † October 2, 1975 in Rheinhausen near Duisburg ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

After training with Professor Willy Meller (1950–1952), Cologne, Lossow worked as a freelance artist in his own studio in Cologne since 1953. Lossow received orders for churches, public buildings, industry and from private clients. His fields of work included sculptures, especially in wood, stone and bronze, as well as free graphics, especially etchings.

In the competition of the German Bundestag for the creation of a 4 × 6 m wall sculpture for the entrance of the eight-story extension building (the so-called "old high-rise building" with parliamentary offices and library), Lossow's design was awarded first prize out of 333 works submitted. The relief symbolized the thought "The discord in the heart". All the award-winning designs at the time were not carried out.

In 1958, the erection of a memorial created by Günter Lossow at the entrance of the future church hall in the Tersteegenhaus of the Evangelical parish in Cologne-Klettenberg marked the beginning of the rededication of the former ballroom to a church hall. "Of the stone principal pieces created on the occasion of the rededication, the baptismal font with a bronze lid by Günter Lossow (1960) has been preserved."

At the entrance to the Institute for Medical Parasitology at the University of Bonn , Lossow created a copper relief in 1966 as "another trademark". With the relief, which consists of five copper plates of different sizes, orientations and embossing, the artist was inspired by the manifold forms of the parasites, both by their regularity and their agitation. “The relation to science is found here in a deeper layer than just in the topic. Artists and scholars meet in that they are able to create a spiritual order. ... The relief in parasitology confirms the task of science in an artistically imaginative form. "

The community center of the Evangelical Bodelschwingh parish in Cologne-Höhenhaus, which was completed on October 1, 1967, was profaned in September 2013 . "The altar, pulpit and baptism as well as the slate relief above the entrance to the church hall are works by the sculptor Günter Lossow from 1967." The slate relief is now in private hands.

"Today's tabernacle made of shell limestone and bronze in the parish church of St. Mary's Birth in Cologne-Zündorf is a work from 1971 by Günter Lossow, who also designed the altar, the altar candlesticks and the ambo."

For the newly built Astronomical Institute of the University of Bonn (today the Argelander Institute for Astronomy) Lossow created a 135 × 172 × 172 cm aluminum sundial in 1973 . “This horizontally mounted clock was designed like a sculpture from geometric shapes. The square base plate is diagonally divided into two halves by the towering pole edge serving as a shadow projector, which are provided with rays and the hour counting in Arabic numerals (1/1 h). "

In the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church in Cologne-Junkersdorf , Lossow created a baptismal font for the center of the church, where both room shells unite and the floor is slightly lowered. The massive, unadorned block made of shell limestone with the appearance of a rock has a hollow in the middle for receiving the water of the baptismal font. On the side it has another recess for the jug of baptismal water.

For the Spanish building of the Cologne City Hall , which is characterized by its brick facades, Lossow created reliefs for the entrance on City Hall Square. The motif consists of bundles of ears of corn carved into ashlar, which are located to the left and right of the entrance. “They symbolize our growth and prosperity over time.” He also designed the balcony railing of the Prophet's Chamber in Cologne's town hall.

For the new building of a parish center for the Catholic parish of St. Michael Waldbröhl in Nümbrecht, he designed the brick relief of the street-side gable front of the parish and youth home in 1975. Unfortunately, he died during the construction work and was no longer able to carry out other tasks that were intended for him in the teamwork. "The brick relief represents in symbolic forms the community gathering around the middle of the Christian proclamation ..."

Other works

  • Evangelical Christ Church Bingen: Two bronze doors with relief for the portals of the north vestibule and the baptismal font.
  • Catholic Church of St. Mariae Birth Cologne: Altar, altar candlesticks, Easter candlesticks and the ambo.

literature

  • Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2 . Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1966, p. 169.
  • Claudia Büttner: History of Art in Architecture in Germany . Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS), Berlin 2012, p. 63.
  • Ute Fender: Reconstruction after the Second World War in Germany East and West: A comparison based on representative municipal buildings . Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1996 (dissertation), p. 35.
  • Peter Fuchs: The City Hall of Cologne. History, buildings, shapes . Extended new edition. Greven Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7743-0283-9 .
  • Heinrich Lützeler: The Bonn University buildings and sculptures . Publication for the 150th anniversary. Verlag H. Bouvier-Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, Bonn 1968, page 236 f.
  • Das Münster, Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH & Co.KG, Munich 1978, issue 4 1978
  • Becker-Huberti, Manfred; Menne, Günter A .: Cologne churches, the churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art and the beautiful home , Volume 51, Bruckmann, Munich, 1955, p. 82.
  2. ↑ BMVBS (Hrsg.): History of Art in Building in Germany ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Berlin 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbsr.bund.de
  3. ↑ Becker-Huberti, Manfred; Menne, Günter A .: Cologne churches, the churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 238
  4. ^ Heinrich Lützeler, The Bonn University Buildings and Pictures, Bonn 1968, p. 236 f.
  5. ^ Heinrich Lützeler, ibid.
  6. ↑ Becker-Huberti, Manfred; Menne, Günter A .: Cologne churches, the churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 171.
  7. ↑ Becker-Huberti, Manfred; Menne, Günter A .: Cologne churches, the churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 112.
  8. ↑ Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, (dissertation) 2012, p. 26.
  9. ^ Bonhoeffer Church: The Protestant Church in Cologne-Junkersdorf . Website of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
  10. ^ Spanish construction website of the city of Cologne
  11. ↑ Dr. Hugo Schnell (ed.): The cathedral . IV / 1978, page 345. Schnell & Steiner GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Lossow, Franz Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lossow, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1975
Place of death Rheinhausen near Duisburg