Gisela Bear

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Gisela Bär (1920–1991)

Gisela Bär (born October 14, 1920 in Pforzheim ; † September 8, 1991 there ) was a German sculptress .

Life and work

During her training, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , later the Art and Crafts School in Pforzheim and finally the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe .

During her entire career she had her own studio in Pforzheim. The subjects of her artistic work were mostly sacred sculptures and reliefs made in bronze . Her works can be found today in churches and in many places in Germany.

Works (selection)

Pirmin statue by Gisela Bär on the access dam to Reichenau
Restored sculpture by Albertus Magnus in Unterlinden (Freiburg im Breisgau)
Crucifix,
Mary Help of Christians, Constance
Madonna,
Maria-Hilfe der Christians, Konstanz

In Pforzheim you can find the following works by Gisela Bär today:

  • the door handles at the entrance to the Ratskeller
  • in the council chamber building: the citizen and his city
  • in the St. Francis Church the Passionsweg as a relief
  • in the Elisabeth Church Saint Elisabeth as a bronze statue
  • Madonna and Child as a bronze statue in the Catholic parish center St. Bernhard
  • Edith Stein Hall. Bronze relief
  • Music-making and dancing groups, youth center in Pforzheim
  • Relief Konrad Adenauer, bronze, Konrad Adenauer school
  • Soldiers Memorial, Birkenfeld Cemetery
  • some tombs in the main cemetery.

Other works:

  • Menorah, bronze, 1988, St. Michael parish church, Veringendorf
  • Tree of life, shell limestone stele, bronze medallions, 1986, St. Michael parish church, Veringendorf
  • Way of the Cross, bronze, 1983, St. Maria, Weingarten
  • Baptismal fountain, 1980, St. Josef Church, baptistery, Wandsbek
  • Altar interior, travertine, bronze, 1977/1979; Virgin Mary statue, aluminum tinted in bronze, 1977; Bronze relief "Johannes XXIII.", 1979; Engel Raphael, 1987; St. Johannis parish, Hamburg
  • Meditation cross, tabernacle, ambo, stations of the cross, bronze, 1973, St. Laurentius Church, Bretten
  • Door handles (cloister), grating Sepulkrum (crypt), bronze, 1970, Münster Konstanz
  • Way of the Cross, 1970, Minster St. Maria and Markus , Reichenau-Mittelzell
  • Altar, ambon, crucifix, tabernacle stele, Madonna with child, chandelier, angel reliefs on the tower wall, foundation stone, 1968, Maria Hilfe der Christisten, Konstanz
  • Bell decorations - inscriptions and figures on the bells of the main bells of the Konstanz Minster (cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg), 1966
  • Apocalyptic woman with child and dragon, artificial stone relief, 1964, Altklinikum Chapel, Heidelberg
  • Albertus Magnus sculpture in memory of the Dominican monastery in Freiburg (1963, restored until 2010)
  • a large seated Mary with child, 1962, Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Karlsruhe
  • Healing of the paralytic, artificial stone relief, 1961, Altklinikum Chapel, Heidelberg
  • Madonna on the Rottweiler high bridge, 1961
  • Statue of St. Boniface, stone, 1960, Bonifatiuskirche, Mannheim
  • Altar relief, Madonna, bronze, 1956, St. Bernhard Church, Königsbach-Stein
  • Church decorations of the Catholic Church of St. Georg in Siegelsbach
  • Portrait bust of Carl Neinhaus, bronze, 1961, State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
  • Altar, Assumption of Mary Stuttgart-Degerloch
  • Sculptures, protective coat Madonna and St. Anna Selbdritt, St. Anna Clinic, Stuttgart
  • Pirmin statue, limestone (shell limestone), 1969, access dam to the island of Reichenau
  • Relief representations of the Last Supper and the Crucifixion on the facade, Christ statue above the altar, St. Johannes , Heidelberg-Rohrbach
  • Crucifix, Madonna and statue of the Archangel Michael, St. Michael , Heidelberg-Südstadt
  • Shell limestone reliefs on the side altars and the Way of the Cross, St. Bartholomäus , Heidelberg-Wieblingen
  • Main altar with stone reliefs of the four symbols of the evangelists, Catholic parish church in Bruchhausen near Karlsruhe
  • Protective mantle Madonna, cement casting, Catholic parish church in Bruchhausen near Karlsruhe
  • Protective mantle Madonna, high relief for the outer wall, cement casting, Gemmingen Catholic parish church
  • Protective mantle Madonna, high relief for the outer wall, cement casting; Ambo, wayside shrine, St. Wolfgang in Hamberg near Pforzheim
  • Grave cross, high relief, stone cast, Holzhausen near Freiburg
  • Tabernacle, lecture cross, lights, bronze, Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Reichenbuch (City of Mosbach)
  • Crucifix, stations of the cross, paschal candlestick, bronze; Altar, ambo, tabernacle stele, travertine, St. Josef Church, Schömberg
  • Figure group Franziskus-Klara-Agnes, bronze, mother house St. Anna Sisters, Ellwangen
  • Michael sculpture, shell limestone, on the Rottweil viaduct
  • Archangel Raphael with Tobias. Bridge figure on the upper Lauchert Bridge in Veringenstadt
  • many other works also in private ownership

Honors

  • 1954 Award at the exhibition "Young Baden Art of the Present"
  • 1955 Württembergisch-Baden Art Prize
  • 2005 Name of the "Gisela-Bär-Straße" in Pforzheim

literature

  • Rolf Constantin: Wrought out of silence, The sculptor Gisela Bär died in Pforzheim , In: Konradsblatt No. 41, October 13, 1991, p. 28
  • OG: Of art and artists - Gisela Bär , In: The art and the beautiful home, 57th year, 1958, 1, p. 19, ISSN  0023-5423
  • Hans Huth: The art monuments of the city district of Mannheim (= The art monuments in Baden-Württemberg Volume 1, published by the State Monuments Office Baden-Württemberg). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 , pp. 703–708.
  • Ulf Rathje: The street names of Pforzheim , materials on city history 22, published by the Pforzheim city archive - Institute for city history, regional culture, Ubstadt-Weiher, 2009, p. 92, ISBN 978-3-89735-589-7
  • Jacob Reisner: Loyalty to tradition; Pictorial works by Gisela Bär , In: Art and the beautiful home, 62nd year, 1964, pp. 210–211, ISSN  0023-5423
  • Hugo Schnell, Anton Henze: Sculptors of the Present Gisela Bär , In: Das Münster 9. Jg., 1956, 7/8, pp. 242–243, ISSN  0027-299X
  • Bear, Gisela . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 264 .
  • Peter Wiench: Bear, Gisela . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , p. 243.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ loebliche-singer-pforzheim.de bronze sculpture MARIA WITH CHILD
  3. ↑ pz-news.de:  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Church with new decorations@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pz-news.de  
  4. ↑ a b c Reisner: Treue zur Tradition Bildwerke von Gisela Bär , p. 210
  5. ↑ http://www.kar-pf.de/index.php/Geschichte.html
  6. ↑ http://www.pfenz.de/wiki/Gisela_B%C3%A4r_(Galerie)
  7. ↑ http://www.st-maria-weingarten.de/St-Maria/Unsere-Kirche-St-Maria/
  8. ↑ St. Johannis-Gemeinde, Hamburg ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-johannis-teilshoop.de
  9. ↑ http://www.kath-bretten.de/html/geschichtliches361.html
  10. ↑ Saur: General artist lexicon: The visual artists of all times and peoples, KG Saur-Verlag, Munich / Leipzig, Vol. 6, 1992, p. 243, ISBN 3-598-22746-9
  11. ↑ Franz Hitzel: Maria Hilfe der Christisten Konstanz . Stadler, Constance, no year
  12. ↑ http://kirchen-online.org/printable/kirchen--kapellen-rund-um-den-bodensee-da-ch/konstanz-allmannsdorf---maria-hilf.php
  13. ↑ http://real.elixir.free.fr/html/zkonstanz.htm
  14. ↑ Franz Hitzel: A great peal . In: Guido H. Frick, Heinz Finke, Die Niederburg: Portrait of the oldest Konstanz district , Konstanz, 1983, pp. 106-109
  15. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 19, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de
  16. ↑ RegioTrends: Freiburg: "Albertus Magnus" is back: Sparkasse boss Horst Kary solemnly unveiled the restored sculpture of the universal scholar in the "Quartier Unterlinden" , December 15, 2010, accessed on January 30, 2011
  17. ↑ karlsruhe.de:  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Catholic Holy Spirit Church@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.karlsruhe.de  
  18. ↑ rwbilder.de:  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Madonna by Gisela Bär@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rwbilder.de  
  19. ↑ Hans Huth: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Stadtkreis Mannheim, In: Die Kunstdenkmäler in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I., published by the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1982, pp. 703-708, ISBN 3-422-00556- 0
  20. ↑ http://www.ssekae.de/html/kirche_st_bernhard.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ssekae.de  
  21. ^ Rita E. Täuber: Art in the Landtag. A tour . Ed .: State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2012, DNB  1096508052 , p. 18–19, 71 (2008 brochure reissued). - Landtag website
  22. ↑ architektenprofile.de: 1st half of the 20th century
  23. ↑ tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de
  24. ↑ reichenau.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 831 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.reichenau.de  
  25. ↑ a b c d e f g Schnell, Henze: Sculptors of the Present Gisela Bär , p. 242
  26. ↑ http://www.kath-men.de/html/filialkirche_herz_jesu_reichenbuch452.html?t=&tto=334addbb  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kath-men.de  
  27. ↑ http://www.anna-schwestern.de/de/gemeinschaft/franziskus-und-klara.html
  28. ↑ Rathje, Die Pforzheimer Strasseennamen , p. 92

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personal data
SURNAME Bear, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1991
Place of death Pforzheim