Günter von Scheven

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Günter von Scheven (born April 17, 1908 in Krefeld , † March 21, 1942 in Karpowka ) was a German sculptor . He mainly created figurative sculptures.

Life

In 1927 Günter von Scheven graduated from high school at Moltkeplatz in Krefeld. He then studied philosophy in Heidelberg and Berlin. At the same time he went on to study art and decided to sculpt in 1928. At the Berlin Academy he attended courses with Diederichs and Fritz Klimsch . In 1932 Scheven became a private student of Georg Kolbes , after he became aware of him through his blue granite sculpture of a youth's torso. Around 1930 he belonged, together with Andreas Moritz and Hermann Lemperle, to a circle of idealistic young men whose center was Georg Kolbe. After he was drafted into the Second World War in 1940, he wrote field post letters to Kolbe, which the latter published in extracts.

In 1937 von Scheven received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome and traveled through Italy and Greece. In 1938 he worked temporarily in Düsseldorf, then again in Berlin.

As early as 1933 he took part in the exhibition Living German Art at the Paul Cassirer Gallery and in the 1936 art exhibition in Berlin, where he exhibited a discus thrower and a javelin thrower, and in the exhibition German Sculptors of the Present in 1940 in Hamburg. Between 1935 and 1941 he took part in exhibitions at the Karl Buchholz Gallery in Berlin. In 1947 the Krefeld Museumsverein organized a memorial exhibition.

Works

  • 1930: Young man's torso (granite)
  • 1932: Crouching (Silesian Marble)
  • 1932: Portrait of HL
  • before 1933: Portrait of Miss G. (plaster)
  • 1933: Portrait of the mother (bronze)
  • 1933: skier
  • 1933: Relay race (relief)
  • 1933: Discus thrower
  • 1933: shot putter
  • 1934: Sports badge (bronze)
  • 1935: Mourners (bronze)
  • 1935: Portrait of a Greek woman
  • 1936: Portrait of the sister (bronze)
  • 1938: Sibylle (plaster)
  • 1936/38: Mourners II (zinc)
  • 1938: Portrait LF
  • 1938: Battle of the Angels (zinc relief), also judging angels
  • 1939: Little standing woman (bronze)
  • before 1940: revival (bronze relief)

literature

  • Fritz Nemitz: Young Sculptors. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1939.
  • Klemens Köhler: The sculptor Günter von Scheven. In: Art for everyone. 59th year, issue 1, pp. 11–15, Bruckmann, Munich 1944.
  • Georg Kolbe: The sculptor Günter von Scheven. Karl Rauch Verlag, Dessau 1944.
  • Krefeld Museums-Verein: Memorial exhibition Günter von Scheven - drawings and sculptures. Scherpe, Krefeld 1947.
  • Franz Kloidt: Günter von Scheven - an unfinished man? Krefeld 1965

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration on p. 55 in Nemitz: Junge Bildhauer
  2. ↑ Illustration in Kolbe and Davidson
  3. ↑ Illustration in Die Kunst für alle (vol. 59, booklet 1, p. 15) [1]
  4. ^ Illustration in the catalog of the 1947 memorial exhibition
  5. ↑ Illustration in Die Kunst für alle (Vol. 52, Issue 9, p. 212)
  6. ↑ Illustration in Die Kunst für alle (vol. 59, booklet 1, p. 14) [2]
  7. ^ Illustration in the catalog of the 1947 memorial exhibition
  8. ^ Illustration in Davidson
  9. ^ Illustration in Davidson
  10. ↑ Illustration in Die Kunst für alle (vol. 59, booklet 1, p. 12) [3]
  11. ^ Illustration in Davidson
  12. ↑ Illustration in Die Kunst für alle (vol. 59, booklet 1, p. 11) [4]
  13. ^ Illustration in the catalog of the 1947 memorial exhibition
personal data
SURNAME Scheven, Günter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheven, Günther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1942
Place of death Karpovka