Gerhard Scheibe

Hans Gerhard Scheibe (* 1939 in Bochum ; † May 14, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor , draftsman and visual artist.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in Bochum and studying industrial engineering in Dortmund, Gerhard Scheibe moved to Berlin in 1962 and ran his own car paint shop and body shop there from 1965 to 1987. His love of art and his curiosity about the malleability of a wide variety of materials, however, led to the fact that he used the resulting materials during his apprenticeship as a machine fitter to create extraordinary sculptures out of metal and scrap. For many years he worked with a wide variety of materials such as wood and steel.

In 1984 HG Scheibe had his first solo exhibition at the Federal Garden Show in Berlin. After selling his car workshop in 1987, he devoted himself exclusively to art.

In Berlin-Gatow he lived and worked in his studio, which was also a constant contact point for numerous artists and art lovers.

On May 14, 2011, the artist and “people collector”, as he called himself, died in Berlin.

plant

In addition to numerous wood and steel sculptures, Scheibe also created non-representational works as well as sketches, paintings and lacquer work. One of his best-known works is the "Berlin Plant" created in 1987, his most important political work of art, created on the occasion of Berlin's 750th anniversary. The “Berlin Plant” is a sheet of steel several square meters in size that shows the outline of Berlin as a whole and the Berlin districts. When it was made in 1987, steel pins still marked the course of the wall on the sculpture, which were removed immediately after the wall fell. Hans Gerhard Scheibe first presented miniatures of his “Berlin Plant” to former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , and in 1990 to the then Governing Mayor Walter Momper and Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker . In 1992, on the occasion of the award of the Berlin honorary citizenship, Michail S. Gorbatschow, Helmut Kohl and Ronald Reagan , or their representatives, received copies of the limited miniatures.

Exhibitions

Scheibe participated in numerous group exhibitions, including in Riga and in Berlin at the Free Berlin Art Exhibition

• 1984 Solo exhibition at the Federal Garden Show in Berlin
• 1991 Solo exhibition at the Bulgarian Embassy in Berlin
• 1993 and 1999 solo exhibitions in the Spandau Citadel
• 2005 Solo exhibition in the Sony Center Berlin

Web links

• Website Gerhard Scheibe
• Exhibition in the Kulturhaus Spandau
• High jumper (in the list of sculptures in Spandau)
• Wall victims memorial plaque
• Memorial for Georg Jurytko and Rudolf Schwarz