Gerhard Rommel

Iron Gustav in Berlin

Monument for the construction workers (1970) in Berlin

Gerhard Rommel (born February 10, 1934 in Schalkau ; † June 6, 2014 in Gransee ) was a German sculptor , medalist , coin designer and painter .

Life

Gerhard Rommel attended the technical college for applied arts in Sonneberg from 1948 to 1951 . Here he got an apprenticeship as a ceramic model. During his studies from 1952 to 1958 at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee , he took lessons from Heinrich Drake and Theo Balden . Gerhard Rommel worked as a freelancer in Berlin since 1958. From 1963 to 1965 he was a master student of Fritz Cremer at the German Academy of the Arts . Since 1962, Rommel has organized solo exhibitions at home and abroad and participated in central exhibitions in the GDR . For commemorative coins of the German Democratic Republic drum provided the models, mostly designed by Dietrich Dorfstecher . In detail these were:

1966: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Karl Friedrich Schinkel , 1967: Wilhelm von Humboldt , Käthe Kollwitz , 1968: Karl Marx , Robert Koch , 1976: Carl Maria von Weber , 1977: Otto von Guericke , 1979: 30 years of the GDR, 1980: Adolph von Menzel ,

1981: National People's Army , 1982: Clara Zetkin , Friedrich Froebel , 1983: Richard Wagner , 1984: Adolf von Lützow , 1985: 40th anniversary of liberation from fascism, 1989: Johann Gottfried Schadow , Carl von Ossietzky .

In addition to large-format sculptures, he also designed medals, especially portrait medals on painters and medals made from Meissen porcelain . About 100 paintings were created. Rommel belonged to the artist group Berliner Medailleure . In the summer months he devoted himself to watercolor and oil pastel painting in Norway.

Awards

• 1967 Will Lammert Prize from the GDR Academy of Arts
• 1969 Art Prize of the GDR

Works (selection)

African mountain goat in Rostock

Sigmund Jähn unveils the bust of Yuri Gagarin in the cosmonauts' grove at the Archenhold observatory , 1981

1961/62 Berlin girls , Berlin 1965 Gymnastics Boys , Berlin 1969 donkey rider , Rostock 1970 Memorial stele for Anne Frank , in Ticino (near Rostock) 1970 Monument for the construction workers , Berlin Alexanderplatz 1971 border soldier with child , in Bleichröderpark Berlin 1978 bust of Sigmund Jähn , Berlin 1979 African mountain goat , Rostock 1979 Nude girls , Rostock 1980 mother with child , Berlin 1980/81 Angora billy goat in Berlin Zoo 1981 Juri Gagarin at the Archenhold Observatory , Berlin

1983 Angora billy goat , Rostock 1983 Judoka , Strausberg 1984–1988 bronze reliefs on the 70th anniversary of the November Revolution , Neuer Marstall in Berlin 1987 combat group memorial , Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg , Berlin (dismantled in the 1990s) 1988 portrait of Egon Erwin Kisch , Berlin 1998 Eiserner Gustav , Großer Tiergarten , Berlin Mother and child , Meiningen Castle Park

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Rommel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on kulturportal.maerkischeallgemeine.de
• Brief portrait on www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ GDR sculptor Gerhard Rommel dead on welt.de, accessed on June 10, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Karl-Heinz Weigelt, Sieglinde Weigelt: Medals from Meissen porcelain 1975 - 1979 . Short biographies of the artists involved in creating the medals. transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1983, p. 466 f .