Gerhard Olbrich

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Gerhard Olbrich (born October 28, 1927 in Berlin ; † June 13, 2010 in Bremerhaven ) was a German pedagogue, painter and sculptor.

biography

Olbrich was the son of a merchant; his mother died when he was 23 years old. After studying art and graphics in East Berlin, a. a. As a student of the Swiss master Willy Fries , the young painter went on a study trip to Italy by bicycle. Numerous pictures testify to this. Olbrich did not complete any training as a sculptor. After the Wall was built in 1961, he fled to West Germany and has lived in Bremerhaven ever since. From 1975 to 1993 he worked as a teacher for artistic drawing and handicrafts at the grammar school in Langen near Bremerhaven .

As an artist, he dealt with many subjects, materials and techniques in painting, graphics, calligraphy , copper drifting and enamel work. He created mosaics , reliefs , glass windows and sacred objects, as well as later sculptures and bronze figures. He was a stage decorator, book illustrator, church painter and sculptor on his own initiative - Olbrich has a wide range of artistic skills. He became known with the design of church windows in Meiningen , Berlin, Niemegk , Mittenwalde , Wandlitz , Wünsdorf and Lörrach as well as with the sculptures in Bremerhaven.

He worked for a long time on the board of the Theater-Förderverein Bremerhaven.

He was married to the singer and pianist Ilse-Marie Olbrich . She lives in Bremerhaven- Leherheide . The son is a cardiologist in Langen (Hessen) . The daughter is a pianist at the University of Augsburg .

Works

Choir of the town church Meiningen : stained glass window
Wind bride
Garnet woman
  • Church window in
  • Triptych and apse window of St. Johannis Church, Niemegk / Brandenburg (1953)
  • Altarpiece with three elements: Temptation, Crucifixion, Archangel Michael, Church of St. Michael in Ludwigsfelde (approx. 1954)
  • Altar stand cross in the Willehadi Church in Wremen (1964)
  • Altar relief and altar decorations in the Christ Church Brake -Nord
  • Christ relief in the Surheid Church of the Resurrection
  • Cross relief at the Alfred Delp School in Bremerhaven
  • Grenade woman in Bremerhaven-Mitte (1988); in memory of Meta Matschuk, who until 1987 had sold crabs ( garnets ) on Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse .
  • Bride of the Wind in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Mayor-Martin-Donandt-Platz
  • Storm surge column in Bremerhaven-Mitte on the Weser dike (1975), removed in 2012 as part of the dike heightening and archived in the DSM
  • Plastic bud in Schiffdorf in front of the vocational school (1982)
  • Mathilde , fountain figure at the town hall in Bad Bederkesa , 1980, cast in bronze at Raguse and Voss in Bremerhaven; On the occasion of the 850th anniversary of Bederkesa, a group of committed citizens made the memorial for the German housewife a symbol of a new sense of community
  • Wall relief St. Appolonia in the house of dentists in Bremen
  • Bronze figure in the Ludwig Krüder fountain in Bremerhaven-Mitte between the city theater and the art museum (1998)
  • Bronze sculpture night watchman in Langen near the Lindenhof center (1989)

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Olbrich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse-Marie Olbrich
  2. ↑ Hans-Georg Olbrich (asklepios.com)
  3. ↑ Christine Olbrich (University of Augsburg)
personal data
SURNAME Olbrich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2010
Place of death Bremerhaven