Gottfried Bammes

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Gottfried Bammes (born April 26, 1920 in Potschappel (today in Freital ), † May 14, 2007 in Dresden ) was a German artist and anatomist. From 1960 he taught as a professor for artist anatomy at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . His textbooks and manuals are standard works of artist anatomy.

Life

Bammes was born in 1920 as the son of a teacher in Potschappel. From 1931 to 1939 he attended the state high school for boys in Dresden-Plauen , after which he took part in a news unit in the Second World War. He became a Canadian prisoner of war, from which he fled in 1945. He married during the war in 1944; the marriage has five children.

At the beginning of the war, Bammes studied painting and graphics with Emil Paul Börner and continued his autodidactic training. In 1947 he was recognized as a freelance visual artist. From 1948 he worked as an artist for several years in the iron hammer works Dresden-Dölzschen and in the stainless steel works May 8, 1945 in Freital. As early as 1949 he founded the GDR's first amateur art group in the Dölzschen iron hammer factory; a second followed in 1950 in Freital. A number of regionally important artists emerged from his amateur art circles, such as graphic designer Horst Hoppe in Freital . During this time, Bammes himself created a series of “expressive pictures” that show steelworkers at work.

From 1951 to 1953 Bammes studied painting and graphics at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and began to work as a university professor after completing his studies in 1953. At the university he built up the area of ​​artist anatomy for animals and humans and in 1955 passed a special examination as an anatomist at the Medical Academy Carl Gustav Carus Dresden . Among his artistic teachers in the field of artist anatomy was Bammes “ Leonardo da Vinci with his great anatomical works and Albrecht Dürer with his work on proportional laws”. Bammes also studied pedagogy at the TH Dresden from 1956 , where he received his doctorate in 1957 on the subject of didactic aids in the subject of plastic anatomy and habilitated in 1959 on new foundations of a methodology in the subject of plastic anatomy . In 1960, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts appointed him professor for artist anatomy. His students included Werner Schlieben , Elisabeth Lehmann, Hernando León , Günter Schreiber , Doris Kreiß and Eberhard von der Erde .

Bammes had already undertaken study trips to Norway in 1957 and 1959. From 1968 guest professorships followed at the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, Great Britain, as well as the coveted "Bammes courses" at the University of Design in Zurich. Bammes was a sought-after expert in the field of artist anatomy, on which he wrote several standard works. He became internationally known in 1964 with the handbook and textbook for artists Die Gestalt des Menschen , which was named the most beautiful book of the year in the GDR. It has been translated into various languages ​​and is considered timeless: it was first published in Bulgarian in 2001. Other works by Bammes that have been published several times include Der nackte Mensch (1969) and Seeing and Understanding (1985). Bammes received numerous prizes and in 1977 became a member of the Anatomical Society. In 1985 he retired.

In his later years he turned to free graphics and devoted himself primarily to the artistic representation of the life of Jesus and the Passion of Christ. “The graphic artist Gottfried Bammes has the gift of depicting situations and events with a high level of symbolic power,” wrote critics on the occasion of the exhibition Gottfried Bammes - Graphics for the Passion in Görlitz and Zittau 1997. Bammes also published other works of art anatomy and art education; by 2006, 22 of his books had been published on human and animal anatomy. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Bammes was recognized as the “ Nestor of artistic anatomy” and “living legend”.

In 2002, an international non-profit school for classical drawing and sculpture in St. Petersburg, which was founded by Bammes student and sculptor Roman Kuriljak , among others , was named Gottfried Bammes . Bammes died in Dresden in 2007. His artistic estate was given to the city of Freital, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the Dresden City Museum and the Dresden State Art Collections . Manuscripts for his publications are in the Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig , holdings EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig.

Publications

  • 1957: Didactic aids in the subject of plastic anatomy (dissertation)
  • 1959: New foundations of a methodology for the subject of plastic anatomy (habilitation)
  • 1964: The Shape of Man (10th edition 2002)
  • 1969: The Naked Man (6th edition 1988)
  • 1970: Studying nudes in drawing
  • 1974: The figure of man
  • 1975: The Nude in Art
  • 1975: The shape of the animal
  • 1978: figurative design
  • 1985: Seeing and Understanding (3rd edition 1992)
  • 1989: We draw people (2nd edition 1999 under the title People Draw )
  • 1990: Studies on the Human Shape (4th edition 2005)
  • 1991: Great Animal Anatomy
  • 1992: act
  • 1993: Workbook on artist anatomy
  • 1997: body and garment
  • 2001: drawing animals
  • 2003: Artist anatomy and visual expression
  • 2004: Landscapes
  • 2005: The new big drawing school
  • 2005: artistic freedom
  • 2005: Drawing, people and animals

Works of art in public space

  • 1967: Mural, Waldblick School Freital
  • Tierbild All of our friends , the center of the Waldblick School Freital
  • Mural unit , assembly hall of the Kleinnaundorf school (1950)
  • Plaster mural, Stadtkulturhaus Freital (removed in 1994)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Freital: Biography of Gottfried Bammes
  2. ^ André Langhammer: Artist and anatomist, educator and "lone warrior" . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 3, 2000, p. 11.
  3. ↑ The artist anatomy is his specialty . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 18, 1997, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Hannelore Schuster: Edelstahlwerk owns 171 works of art from bammes to hazel grouse . In: Dresdner Latest News , October 30, 1997, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Bernd Moschke: Knowledge of anatomy made artists world famous . In: Dresdner Latest News , May 26, 2000, p. 20.
  6. ↑ Thomas Mayer: Gottfried Bammes (interview). In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 7, 2000, p. 2.
  7. ↑ Exhibitions with Bammes works . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 6, 1997, p. 17.
  8. ↑ The artist anatomy is his specialty . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 18, 1997, p. 14.
  9. ↑ Reimar Börnicke: Fend off the overwhelming power of chaos . In: Sächsische Zeitung , May 18, 2007, p. 9.
  10. ^ Artistic anatomy now in Bulgarian . In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 26, 2001, p. 8.
  11. ^ Bammes graphics in the baroque house . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 6, 1997, p. 12.
  12. ↑ Bammes graphics with high symbolic power . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 12, 1997, p. 11.
  13. ^ Artist and anatomist Gottfried Bammes turns 80 . In: Sächsische Zeitung , April 26, 2000, p. 1.
  14. ^ André Langhammer: Living legend . In: Sächsische Zeitung, Freital edition , April 26, 2000, p. 7.
  15. ↑ Freitaler is the namesake . In: Sächsische Zeitung , May 6, 2002, p. 7.
  16. ↑ Thomas Morgenroth: Ymir and the assistant judge . In: Sächsische Zeitung , February 24, 2010, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Bammes, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Potschappel (today Freital )
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2007
Place of death Dresden