Gerson Fehrenbach

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Grave site, Stubenrauchstrasse 43–45, in Berlin-Friedenau
Symposium of European sculptors , untitled, Berlin (1961/63)

Gerson Fehrenbach (born February 18, 1932 in Villingen ; † November 20, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Gerson Fehrenbach was born on February 18, 1932 in Villingen. He received his artistic tools during an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor and attending the arts and crafts school in Bonndorf in the Black Forest from Walter Schelenz . From 1954 to 1960 he studied with Karl Hartung at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1963 he became Erich Fritz Reuter's assistant . With a short interruption he taught at the TU Berlin from 1963 to 1980 .

Travels and scholarships took him to Florence , Paris , the Netherlands and England, among others . At an early age he took part in important exhibitions such as documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and received important public commissions such as the creation of the memorial stone for the Munich Street Synagogue in Berlin in 1963 . Other sculptures can be found in public spaces in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main , Pfullendorf , Offenburg , Villingen and Schwenningen and in the Philippsruhe Palace sculpture park .

Gerson Fehrenbach was a member of the German Association of Artists .

He was buried in the Stubenrauchstrasse municipal cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau .

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Stylistically, Fehrenbach's sculptures can be assigned to the Informel . He processed the study of nature and ancient art together with suggestions from classical modernism and influences from his teacher Karl Hartung to create an individual visual language.

He processed his impressions in autonomous, organically proliferating forms that were based on an intensive study of nature. Many of his works are characterized on the one hand by horizontal and vertical axes and on the other by "knob-like" protuberances. Its main materials were stone, bronze and concrete. Fehrenbach took the motifs from mythology and religion.

literature

  • Josephine Gabler et al. (Ed.): Gerson Fehrenbach, sculpture and drawing. With the catalog raisonné of the sculptures . Foundation for Sculpture, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-00-006357-9 (exhibition catalog)
  • Astrid Rosenberg: Gerson Fehrenbach's contribution to German sculpture in the Informel . LIT-Verlag, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2905-7 (plus master's thesis University of Marburg 1993)

Web links

Commons : Gerson Fehrenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedpark: Schöneberg III cemetery / Gerson Fehrenbach memorial site (accessed on August 17, 2015)
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Fehrenbach, Gerson ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2015 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. (accessed on July 29, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Fehrenbach, Gerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2004
Place of death Berlin