Günther Hummel
Günther Hummel ( Russian Гуммель, Юрий (Гюнтер) Вильгельмович , scientific transliteration Gummel ', Yuriy (Gyunter) Vil'gel'movich ; born May 8, 1927 in Helenendorf ) is a Soviet and German sculptor , teacher and musician . He has lived in Germany since 1991. From 1958 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the USSR and has been a member of the Working Group of Russian-German Artists since 1994.
Life
Hummel attended music and painting schools in Helenendorf between 1936 and 1939 and then completed a degree at the Baku School of Art with W. Klepikow until 1941 . In the period from 1941 to 1945 forced resettlement after carried Kazakhstan and from 1942 to 1945, an insert in the labor army in the coal mines of Karaganda . From 1945 to 1950 he worked as a painter and music director in the Kulturhaus Kohlengrube 55-57. Since 1950 he has been a professional artist and a member of the Kas.ISO artists' association, the art production workshop, the Art Fund and the Karaganda Artists Association. He played in the symphony orchestra under the direction of the composer and conductor AW Warlamov (1950–1952).
In 1952 he took part in the competition for a sculpture relief at the Karaganda train station, where he received first prize and the commission for further execution. From 1954 to 1957 he was the cultural representative for painting and music in Karaganda. In 1957 he took part in the union elimination for the restoration of a portrait of the Persian-Tajik poet Abulchan Rudaki on the occasion of his 1,100th birthday and received the first price with the following purchase by the Museum Bechsada, Dushanbe . In the period between 1957 and 1991 he made numerous large monuments in Kazakhstan, such as the monument of Nurken Abdirow in Karaganda together with A. Bilyk (1958). In 1958 he was accepted into the Soviet Artists Association, and in 1961 he took part in the Karagandas Union Art Exhibition in Moscow for the first time.
In 1964, Hummel was a co-founder and member of the board of the Karaganda Organization of the Kazakh Artists Association. In the same year he sat in on the Leningrad Art Academy with B. Pinchuk. He was also a board member of the Kazakhstan Artists' Association (1965–1969). In 1966 he took part in a study trip to Greece . In 1966 he received first and second prizes in the competition for the Lenin monument in Karaganda and worked on this monument from 1967 to 1975 together with the sculptor N. Lawinsky on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR in Moscow.
From 1972 to 1976 he was chairman of the revision commission of the Karaganda Organization of the Artists' Union of Kazakhstan and from 1977 to 1982 a board member.
In 1977 he created the memorial for soldiers killed in World War II in the Kievka district center, Karaganda district. In 1980 he went on a study trip to Italy with a group from the Künstlerhaus of the USSR .
In 1981 he received the " Honored Artist Kazakhstan" award . In 1991 he entered the Federal Republic of Germany, where in 1994 he became a member of the Working Group of Russian-German Artists.
In 1995 he created the fountain in Bad Krozingen with a memorial and plaque on the occasion of the town twinning between Bad Krozingen and Greoux-Les-Bains and Esparron de Verdon . In 1995 he went on a painting excursion to Italy and in 1997 worked on the fountain system of the Theresienklinik in Bad Krozingen.
Hummel had a total of over 100 exhibitions in cities and galleries in the USSR and internationally.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1947–1991: among others in Karaganda, Alma-Ata , Moscow , Leningrad , Baku, Dushanbe, Tashkent , Prague and Worpswede
- 1977: Personal exhibition “50 years of life, 25 years of creative work”, Karaganda
- 1988: Personal exhibition "60 years of life, 35 years of creative work".
Exhibition participation in Germany (selection)
- 1992: German artists from Russia, Düsseldorf , Berlin , Munich
- 1993: Exhibition - Bad Krozingen; 6th International Art Exhibition Freiburg i. Br ., Breisach
- 1994: 7th International Art Exhibition Freiburg; Federal meeting of Germans from Russia, Stuttgart
- 1995: 8th International Art Exhibition Freiburg
- 1996: "Art Direct", Freiburg, Bavarian Ministry of Labor, Munich - "In the course of time"
- 1997: 10th International Art Exhibition Freiburg
- 1998: Lichtenfels City Palace - Through the Ages “11. International art exhibition “Freiburg
- 1999: Computer Academy, Freiburg
- 2000: First international exhibition, Breisach
- 2001: Exhibition in Feldkirch Castle in Hartheim
- 2001: Memorial plaque "Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck", Reichenberg Castle , Reichelsheim
- 2001: Feldkirch Castle, German-French exhibition in Breisach am Rhein
- 2002: Computer Academy Freiburg
- 2002: 8th Salon de la peinture et de la sculpture , Colmar (2nd prize for sculptures)
- 2002: Exhibition Sparkasse Nördlicher, Freiburg i. Br.
- 2003: Exhibition "Munich Artist Cooperative" in the Haus der Kunst , Munich
- 2003: 9th Salon de la peinture et de la sculpture , Colmar
- 2003: Exhibition “Coming Home”, Lahr / Black Forest
- 2004: 10th Salon de la peinture et de la sculpture , Colmar
- 2004: Exhibition "Bad Krozinger Artists in the Museum"
- 2004: 5th art exhibition "In the heart of Europe" Illzach , France
- 2004: Art exhibition at the Bundestreffen der Russdeutsche in Karlsruhe
- 2004: 6th art exhibition L'Art at Coeur de L'Europe , Illzach
- 2004: Exhibition “Nature and Art for All the Senses”, Fautz - the gardens of Bad Krozingen
- 2004: Personal exhibition painting graphic sculpture , Hotel Siller, Bad Krozingen
- 2005: Exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Munich Artists' Cooperative, House of Art, Munich
- 2005: Exhibition in the Kurhaus Bad Krozingen
- 2005: Exhibition “At eye level”, City of Paderborn
- 2003–2008: Traveling exhibition "Coming Home" with paintings by Nikolaus Rode, sculptures and drawings by Günther Hummel, organized by the Evangelical Church of Baden, in cities, churches and communities in Baden-Württemberg
literature
- Günther Hummel: My path in life
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hummel, Günther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vil'gel'movich, Gummel; Yuriy (Gyunter); Вильгельмович, Гуммель Юрий (Гюнтер) (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-German sculptor, teacher and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helenendorf |