Fred G. Hellwig

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 Fred G. Hellwig, blacksmith
Fred G. Hellwig, blacksmith

Fred G. Hellwig (born October 30, 1919 in Strehlen , Lower Silesia Province ; † March 3, 1992 in Krautheim ) was a German blacksmith and sculptor, metal sculptor and interior designer, experimental painter, former, tailor, medalist and industrial designer.

Life

Crucifix, Ermita de San Telmo, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

Fritz Gustav Waldemar Hellwig was born as the youngest son of the Strehlen blacksmith Fritz Karl Hellwig and Marie, Elise, Lydia Pfeiffer. In the sixth generation he was trained as a blacksmith in his father's company. In 1939 he became Julius Schramm's personal assistant in Berlin. In the same year he began his studies at the "State School for Applied Arts", which in 1940 was renamed the " Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg ".

After fleeing from Silesia, he settled in Dortmund . There he married the artist and fashion designer Gertrude Haselhoff. Here he found the place of his artistic work and quickly made a name for himself as a freelance metal sculptor, sculptor and blacksmith far beyond the city limits. In the 1950s and 60s, he was considered the planner and designer of major building projects by the Dortmund authorities, in particular the city building department.

In the early 1970s, the artist couple moved to El Sauzal on the island of Tenerife . He designed and forged both a crucifix and the large ceiling lights for the San Telmo chapel in Puerto de la Cruz, which was then renovated by the Catholic community abroad . In the mid-1970s, the couple returned to Germany and settled in the Greif house in Grevenstein. In 1974 he designed the "Europa auf dem Stier", a metal sculpture in Dortmund on the old market. At the end of the 1970s, the couple moved on to southern Germany to Krautheim in Baden-Württemberg .

Europe on the bull, Dortmund

Works in public space

  • Europe on the bull. 1974. The metal sculpture is located on the “Alter Markt” in downtown Dortmund, here it hangs high up on a commercial building facade on white exposed aggregate concrete. Client: Linnert Dortmund.
  • Door leaves with symbolic relief representations . Dortmund, town house, Kleppingstrasse, client: City of Dortmund, 1954/1955.
  • Metal relief. The metal relief hangs on the facade of a residential building in Dortmund, Wilhelm-Crüwelstrasse 20, client: Continentale Insurance Group, 1956–1958.
  • Cruzifix. Ermita de San Telmo. Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 1968.

Awards

  • 1965: Youth and Art Foundation
  • 1968: Award from the Accademia Internazionale Rome

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Business Association of Visual Artists North Rhine-Westphalia: Visual Artists in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: South and North Westphalia . In: University of California (Ed.): Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Association of Visual Artists North Rhine-Westphalia . tape 1 . Bongers, 1966, pp. 1917 .
  2. ^ Andrea M. Kluxen: Yearbook for Franconian State Research . Ed .: Central Institute for Regional Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. tape 59 . Degner & Co., Neustadt (Aisch) 1999, ISBN 3-7686-9261-2 , pp. 195 ( [1] [accessed June 20, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz, Ermita de San Telmo In: fraymartindeporres.wordpress.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016
  4. ^ A b Jürgen Zänker, Iris Boemke, Ansgar Deelamnn, Gisbert Gerhard: Public monuments and art objects in Dortmund, an inventory. Ed .: Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Verlagsgesellschaft, Dortmund. 1st edition. Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-9800721-3-4 , p. 172 .
  5. ↑ Jürgen Zänker, Iris Boemke, Ansgar Deelamnn, Gisbert Gerhard: Public monuments and art objects in Dortmund, an inventory. Ed .: Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Verlagsgesellschaft, Dortmund. 1st edition. Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-9800721-3-4 , p. 150 .
  6. ^ Jürgen Zänker, Iris Boemke, Ansgar Deelamnn, Gisbert Gerhard: Public monuments and art objects in Dortmund. An inventory. Ed .: Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Verlagsgesellschaft, Dortmund. 1st edition. Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-9800721-3-4 , p. 156 .
  7. ↑ fraymartindeporres: Ermita de San Telmo (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife). May 13, 2013, accessed June 21, 2016 (Spanish).

literature

  • Public monuments and art objects in Dortmund, an inventory. Authors: Jürgen Zänker, Iris Boemke, Ansgar Deelamnn, Gisbert Gerhard. Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Verlagsgesellschaft, Dortmund 1984, No. 202, ISBN 3-9800721-3-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hellwig, Fred G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Strehlen , Province of Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1992
Place of death Krautheim