Gertrude Reum

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Sculpture Aspiring Forces (2008) by Gertrude Reum in Buchen

Gertrude Reum (born October 8, 1926 in Saarbrücken , † August 16, 2015 in Buchen ) was a German sculptress who is particularly known for her sculptures made of curved upwardly striving chrome-nickel steel pipes.

Life

Gertrude Reum received her artistic training from 1942 to 1946 - interrupted several times by the war events - with Jacob Schug in Saarbrücken. In 1947 she completed her studies at the Offenbach am Main University of Design (until 1950).

Reum lived and worked in Buchen (Odenwald) since the mid-1950s, where she died in 2015 at the age of 88.

Awards

  • 1970 Jury Prize (Salon International de la Femme, Nice)
  • 1984 Arthur-Grimm-Art Prize of the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
  • 1985 Prize of the German Copper Institute Berlin
  • 1987 Willibald Kramm Prize Heidelberg
  • 1996 Promotion Prize from Industry and Commerce of the City of Offenburg
  • 2001 Medal of Merit of the City of Buchen
  • 2011 honorary member of the Kunstverein Neckartal Odenwald Kreis

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K".

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Reum initially devoted himself to painting; her early works from the 1950s and 1960s often still show realistic representational motifs such as B. Odenwald landscapes, flowers, still lifes, pictures of children. In the 1970s she switched to sculptural design in metal, especially reliefs. For this she often used pre-cut industrial moldings made of aluminum, brass, nickel and copper. Since 1983 he has also created etchings and series of watercolors. Her cellulose reliefs with the breaking structures that made them famous were created from 1986 onwards. In 1997 she translates the light bundles cut into the metal into three dimensions: monumental sculptures - some of which were set up in public space - are created in which (light) paths intersect that come from somewhere and lose themselves in infinity, manifest in curved, upwardly striving chrome-nickel steel pipes.

Together Reum's work is the moving and the natural moment. But especially the open, the transitory is inscribed in them - one can read them as a metaphor for the flow of life that has become form.

“Light and shadow, reflections, views into the space and into the landscape are genuine components of these works, with which Gertrude Reum's work has reached a preliminary climax of generous, confident design. They are works of an autonomous form that are at the same time open to interpretations and associations, in which the arc to the beginnings closes. "

- Prof. Hans Gercke, Heidelberg

Picture gallery

  • Modern gallery, Saarbrücken

  • Sursum corda (2007), Wuppertal

  • Bundled Forces (2003), Arenberg Castle

  • Schweinfurt town hall: Inner courtyard with Untitled sculpture from 2002

Working in public space (selection)

Reum's works adorn churches, museums, public buildings and squares, including commissioned work for the sanctuary in churches such as B. St. Oswald in Buchen and St. Johannes in Heimbuchenthal.

  • Untitled . Bismarckstrasse 16, Saarbrücken - Sankt Johann
  • Book, St. Oswald's Church, design of the altar and choir
  • Book, cross in the cemetery chapel
  • Buchen, Stadthalle, "Five-part work on copper plates"
  • Buchen, Stadthalle, "4 aluminum works"
  • Buchen, Odenwald Sports Center (district sports hall), Henry-Dunant-Straße 4, sculpture, approx. 4 m high, on the outer wall
  • Buchen, Helene Weber School, "aluminum work"
  • Heimbuchental, St. John's Church, design of the altar
  • Sinsheim vocational school center, Würth
  • Mosbach Cooperative State University
  • 2000 communication , Tauberbischofsheim
  • 2002 Untitled . City hall inner courtyard Schweinfurt
  • 2003 Joined forces . Museum Würth - Arenberg Castle (Salzburg)
  • 2007 Sursum corda (The hearts aloft ). Theological Center Wuppertal
  • 2008 Emerging Forces . Roundabout Hettinger Str. / Am Haag / Schüttstr., Buchen

literature

  • Gertrude Reum - metal reliefs, sculptures, watercolors. Work phases 1974–1986. Reum, Gertrude / Jensen, Jens Christian / Winkler, Konrad. Afternoon Gallery, Aschaffenburg, 1986
  • Gertrude Reum - passages. Groups of works 1992–1999. Edited by Carmen Sylvia Weber. Text: Sonja Klee. Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau, 1999. Catalog for the exhibition from September 15 to November 14, 1999 in the Hirschwirtscheuer, Künzelsau
  • Gertrude Reum - metamorphoses. Metalwork, sculptures, cellulose reliefs. Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau, 2002. Catalog ed .: Norbert Brey. Catalog for the exhibitions in the Saarland Museum Saarbrücken from February 4 to April 7, 2002 and in the Schweinfurt municipal collections from July 5 to September 8, 2002
  • Gertrude Reum - thwarting. Sculptures, bozzetti, metal pictures. Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau, 2006. Exhibition catalog, beeches. Catalog ed .: Norbert Brey
  • Gertrude Reum - the rough and the light. Edited by Bernd-und-Gisela-Rosenheim-Stiftung, Offenbach, 2009. Catalog for the exhibition in the Rosenheim Museum Offenbach from July 5th to September 27th, 2009

Web links

Commons : Gertrude Reum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrude Reum - biography on eART.de
  2. ↑ quoted from: Gertrude Reum , Kunstverein Hockenheim
  3. ↑ Gertrude Reum's masterpieces have found the perfect place . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, November 28, 2018
  4. ↑ Aspiring Forces , City of Buchen (Odenwald)
personal data
SURNAME Reum, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2015
Place of death Book