Gerd Dehof

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" Blumepeter " monument on the Kapuzinerplanken
Plastic "Der Flößer" on the main cemetery in Mannheim
"'S Luiche" in Zweibrücken
West facade of the Christ-König-Kirche in Landau with concrete relief by Gerd Dehof from 1964.

Gerd Dehof (born July 5, 1924 in Zweibrücken , † May 6, 1989 in Mannheim ) was a German sculptor .

Gerd Dehof has taught sculpture and plastic design at the Free Academy of Arts in Mannheim since 1957 and later at the city's technical college .

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Gerd Dehof was born in Zweibrücken and went to school there. From 1938 he lived with the family in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and initially completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith . He was drafted into the infantry and released from the army in 1944 after being seriously wounded. Then he lived in Mannheim and began his artistic career.

As a student of Carl Trummer , he found his calling when he founded the Free Academy with Paul Berger-Bergner , Wolf Magin and Paul Walter, which later became the Werkkunstschule and today's technical college. Study trips later took him to France and Italy, Greece and Egypt and inspired him in three-dimensional design and drawing.

The city of Mannheim named a square after Dehof.

Works

  • 's Luiche' the servant Ludwig Arnold, bronze cast, Zweibrücken
  • the batsman, bronze sculpture
  • Fountain, Alexanderplatz, Zweibrücken
  • Job sculpture, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church, Wiesbach
  • Memel memorial stone, Mannheim (Rhine promenade), 1961
  • Concrete relief on the west facade of Christ-König-Kirche in Landau in der Pfalz , 1964
  • Bag carrier, Mannheim-Jungbusch
  • 'In the Name of the People', Plastic in Concrete, District Court Mannheim , 1968
  • Bloomaulorden , 1966
  • Blumepeter , Mannheim, Kapuzinerplanken , 1967
  • 'Harlequin' on the forecourt of the cultural center "Das Haus" in Ludwigshafen
  • 'Dance of Vowels': Zweibrücken , Hofenfels-Gymnasium
  • 'In the name of the people': Mannheim , district court, bronze casting

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MARCHIVUM: Mannheim street names, Gerd-Dehof-Platz. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dehof, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1989
Place of death Mannheim