Georg Seibert

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Remembrance , 1985/86, Berlin-Hansaviertel
Die Arbeit, Trilogie , Arbeitsamt München, 1986
Columbiahaus (concentration camp memorial) , 1994, Berlin-Charlottenburg
House of Icarus , 1994, Berlin-Charlottenburg
" The Gate ", Berlin-Lichterfelde

Georg Seibert (born December 8, 1939 in Kleinwiesen , Freyung-Grafenau district; † March 25, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

From 1954 to 1957 Georg Seibert did an apprenticeship in goldsmithing in Pforzheim . From 1960 to 1962 he studied there at the art and craft school and graduated with a master's examination as a gold and silversmith . From 1962 to 1968 Seibert studied sculpture with Hans Uhlmann at the Berlin University of the Arts (formerly the Berlin School of Fine Arts). In 1967 he was a master student at Uhlmann.

Seibert's work ranged from miniature sculptures to large sculptures for architecture, gardens, parks and public spaces . The house was the central theme in Georg Seibert's work. In his steel sculptures he developed numerous manifestations of the house: The house is our second skin , according to Seibert. Since the mid-80s he has been producing creative steel construction kits that can be arranged variably, representational or abstract. This resulted in works that can be assigned to both concrete art and realistic art .

In addition to the sculptural work, he has built an independent work of art on canvas, foils and steel plates, the so-called rust pictures . They document, in color or as a machined steel plate, the potential of the steel construction kits, from the architectural construction to free composition.

Since 1968 Georg Seibert lived and worked as a freelance sculptor in Berlin. In 1998 he founded a country studio with a sculpture grove near Marleben in Lower Saxony . However, the entire property was sold in 2011.

Seibert was a member of the German Association of Artists and sculpture network .

Seibert died on March 25, 2017 of complications from cancer in his artist's apartment on Wallotstrasse in Berlin.

Awards

  • 1957: State Prize of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1966 and 1971: Prize of the State of Berlin for the creative craft
  • 1968: Travel grant from the French government
  • 1969: European Prize of the City of Ostend / Belgium, bronze medal
  • 1976: 1st prize in the competition "Artistic design of the Kreissparkasse Peine"
  • 1987: 1st prize in the competition and execution of the sculpture "Bahn-Damm", Berlin
  • 1995: Winner of the competition "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe", Berlin

Works in public space (selection)

  • 1979/80: Summer and Spring , Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1981: The House of Icarus , Free University of Berlin
  • 1982/83: Connection , fountain system in Berlin-Wedding
  • 1984: Landscape House , Technical University of Berlin
  • 1984/85: Das Tor , Osdorfer Strasse sports hall in Berlin
  • 1986: The kit - the work - the house , trilogy, Munich employment office
  • 1985/86: Remembrance - memorial for Adass Jisroel , Berlin-Tiergarten
  • 1987/89: Bahn-Damm , Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 1990: 3 sculptures , Franziskus Hospital, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1991: Gezeiten , 1st Wendland Symposium, Westwendischer Kunstverein Gartow
  • 1993: Rust pictures for the Hahn-Meitner-Institut , Berlin
  • 1994: Memorial for Magnus Hirschfeld , Berlin
  • 1994: Columbiahaus (concentration camp memorial), Berlin-Tempelhof
  • 1994: House of Icarus , Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 2005: Grave stele for Gerald Humel , Berlin
  • 2011: The Beetle - a German miracle , Karlsruhe

Works in public collections

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1966 Georg Seibert has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

Web links

Commons : Georg Seibert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Seibert: The material (from the trilogy at the Munich employment office)
  2. ↑ Georg Seibert: Das Haus (from the trilogy at the Munich employment office)
  3. ↑ Description of the work at an exhibition at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Information from the Trebel community on the sculpture grove
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Georg Seibert (accessed on February 15, 2016)
  6. ↑ Memorial on the website of the Israelite Synagogue Community.
  7. ^ Der Spiegel: Report on July 29, 1991 on the 1st Wendland Symposium
  8. ↑ Stadtwiki Karlsruhe: Photos on The Beetle
  9. ↑ Description of the Horn Collection ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-gottorf.de
personal data
SURNAME Seibert, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinwiesen , Freyung-Grafenau district
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2017
Place of death Berlin