Günter Wagner (sculptor)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dynamic rectangle by Günter Wagner on the Mannheim Sculpture Mile

Günter Wagner (born January 18, 1955 in Karlsruhe ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Günter Wagner studied from 1974 to 1975 at the operating unit for graphics and painting at the University of Marburg under Schäfer Druckgrafik. This was followed by studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1977 to 1981 with Markus Lüpertz .

Since 1985 he has been working exclusively as a sculptor, and in 1988 he received a project grant from the Kunstfonds in Bonn for sculpture in Italy. Wagner is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, the Association International des Arts Plastiques in Paris and the Association Concordia Patrimoine et Culture in Perpignan. He is also the first chairman of the Bruchsal art association “Das Damianstor” eV and a member of the culture conference of the Karlsruhe TechnologyRegion.

He lives and works in Bruchsal.

Awards

plant

“Günter Wagner's objects have a formal and conceptual clarity that is apparent at first glance, they derive their aesthetic attractiveness from the contrast between the materials iron and glass. One is heavy and burdensome, the other seems weightless and transparent. Very rugged matter, massive mass one thing, light, even immaterial, insubstantial the other. Rough and dull are played off against shiny, shining, raw nature against technical perfection, amorphous contours against precise geometry ”( Heiner Georgsdorf ).

The overall work of the sculptor Günter Wagner can be divided into different work phases.

  • From 1985 to 1990, filigree room shapes and multi-part installations made of brazed silver steel were created, which were then mostly chrome-plated or painted.
  • From 1990 to 1992 he worked in the material combination of silver steel and black granite, polished stainless steel and black granite or black granite and white marble.
  • From 1992 until today he has worked mostly in series and in some cases in very large, multi-part floor and wall works almost exclusively with patinated steel or cast iron, which he combines with glass. At the same time, large open-air sculptures made of Corten steel were created for public spaces and private collections.
  • Between 2006 and 2010 he created wall objects made of patinated lead and iron-coated granite and numerous works on the subject of the labyrinth.
  • Since 2011 Wagner has also been working temporarily in the studios of the Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe on iron-coated ceramic sculptures that look like steel sculptures.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: Günter Wagner - Camouflage: Bruchsal Castle , Badisches Landesmuseum , with catalog ISBN 3-00-004807-3 .
  • 2004: Günter Wagner - Laurent Reypens , Kunsthalle Arbon, with catalog ISBN 90-75463-56-1 .
  • 2014: Günter Wagner, Raumdialoge , Kunstraum St. Georgen, Wismar, with catalog ISBN 978-3-88190-840-5 .
  • 2015: Günter Wagner: Virtual Lightness - Heavy Weight , Glass Museum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld-Lette

Sculptures in public space (selection)

  • 2015: Folding - Walldorf-Mörfelden station
  • 2014: Labyrinth boxes - Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe
  • 2004: Conte and Contessa - Siemens Kreisel Bruchsal

  • 2004: Conte and Contessa - Siemens Kreisel Bruchsal

  • 1998: Royden - Siemens Kreisel Bruchsal

  • Large reclining woman - Bruchsal

  • 1996: Touch - Loretto Park Mosbach

  • 2000: Ibis - Bruchsal Castle Park, today Fiducia Kreisel Durlach

Web links

Commons : Günter Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wagner, Günter (1955). In: General Artist Lexicon Online. KG Saur.
  2. ↑ Julien Dumas: Artfabetic Volume 1 - Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Plasticiens de France, Perpignan Septembre 2016 - ISBN 978-2-7466-8324-2 , www.artfabetic.fr
  3. ↑ http://www.damianstor.de
  4. ↑ Josef Offele, Gerd Hager and Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann (eds.): Kulturkonferenz TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe - A Documentation 1993-2016 - ISBN 978-3-88190-956-3
  5. ^ Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg: ALL! - 60 years of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg - modo, Modo Verlag Freiburg i. Br. 2015 - ISBN 978-3-86833-176-9
  6. ^ In catalog: Museum Ronneburg, Palazzo Ducale di Revere (MN), Museum Ettlingen (ed.): Günter Wagner, Bruchsal: Erka-Verlag, ISBN 9783929184082 , 1998.
  7. ↑ See catalog: Kunstverein Bruchsal eV: Günter Wagner - Raumformen 1985-1987. In it texts by HG Schütz, Dr. Phil. Prof. for art education, H.-J. Buderer Dr. Phil., City. Kunsthalle Mannheim
  8. ^ Catalog: Kunstverein Schwetzingen (ed.): Günter Wagner - "Transparency and Mass" spatial sculptures, 1988.
  9. ^ Catalog, City of Bruchsal, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.): Günter Wagner - Camouflage, ISBN 3-00-004807-3 , 1999.
  10. ^ Catalog, Hanseatic City of Wismar (Ed.): Günter Wagner - Raumdialoge. ISBN 978-3-88190-840-5 , 2015.
  11. ↑ catalog. Kunstverein Pirmasens (ed.): Günter Wagner - factory reloaded. ISBN 3-937295-58-5 , 2006.
  12. ↑ Majolika Foundation for Art and Culture Promotion Karlsruhe (ed.): The Majolika Archive in the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe - Edition Majolika - Series of the Majolika Foundation Volume 2, www.majolika-stiftung.de, 2015
  13. ↑ Majolika-Stiftung für Kunst- und Kulturförderung Karlsruhe (ed.): Artists of the Karlsruhe Majolika 1, series of publications of the Majolika Stiftung Volume 3, www.majolika-stiftung.de, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe