Frijo Müller-Belecke

Frijo Müller-Belecke (actually Friedrich-Josef Müller ; born March 24, 1932 in Delitzsch ; † July 5, 2008 in Hemmoor ) was a German sculptor and art teacher .

biography

The Müller family came from Belecke (today part of the town of Warstein ) in the Sauerland . His stage name Müller-Belecke became his approved official family name in 1981.

He began his training as a sculptor in 1948 with Alwin Murche in Wittenberg ; he continued it in 1948/1949 with Heinrich Sprick in Erwitte and 1950/52 with Heinrich Püts in Wiedenbrück .
From 1954 to 1959 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Josef Henselmann .

From 1959 Müller-Belecke worked as an artist. From 1963 to 1986 he was an art teacher at the Warstade grammar school in Hemmoor. and from 1974 to 1979 art teacher at the German School in Bogotá in Colombia. He then returned to the Warstade grammar school as an art specialist and worked there until 1986.

Numerous sculptures by him can be found in public spaces, especially in various locations in Lower Saxony .

Works (selection)

• in Belecke , district of the city of Warstein : sculpture made of six stylized oaks, in whose branches the city's history is shown in excerpts - the city's foundation in 1296, the Soester feud in 1448, the great city fire of 1805 a. a. on the occasion of the 1050th anniversary of the place in 1988
• in Neuenkirchen (Hadeln) : Memorial to Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1893–1961), German politician (SPD) and first Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, in the park in front of St. Mary's Church
• In Osterbruch , center of the village: Monument to the show jumping horse Deister , one of the most famous horses in Germany, which comes from Osterbruch and which under Paul Schockemöhle became a term for good horse breeding in the country of Hadeln
• in Otterndorf : Otterndorf # De Utröper and Otterndorf # Deichbaudenkmal at the pumping station : Keen nich wants to die, de mutt sigh
• in Lutherstadt Wittenberg : Cranach-Höfe : Monument to Lucas Cranachs the Elder Ä., Inaugurated on November 27, 2005
• in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel in front of the Alstertal shopping center : Antje-Brunnen (also: Walross-Brunnen )
• in Cuxhaven : The sculpture Vogelflug from 2002 and the Carsten Niebuhr monument in Lüdingworth from 2004.

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  Osterbruch , center of the village: memorial for the show jumping horse Deister

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  Otterndorf , in front of the pumping station : Keen nich wants to die, de mutt wieken

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  Otterndorf: De Utröper

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  Otterndorf, south side of the St. Severi Church: monument and home of Johann Heinrich Voss

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  Lutherstadt Wittenberg , Markt 4: Statue of Lucas Cranach the Elder

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  Antje-Brunnen , Alstertal shopping center , Hamburg-Poppenbüttel

Web links

Commons : Frijo Müller-Belecke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Frijo Müller-Belecke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Frijo Müller-Belecke
• Frijo Müller-Belecke on heimatverein-hemmoor.de
• Müller-Belecke, Frijo on cuxpedia.de
• Works by Frijo Müller-Belecke .