Hans Brockhage

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Hans Brockhage (born February 27, 1925 in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , † February 18, 2009 there ) was a German designer and sculptor .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1942, Brockhage was drafted into military service in World War II . Seriously wounded in 1944, he began an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor and turner in 1945. He studied from 1947 to 1952 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Mart Stam and Theodor Artur Winde (1886–1965). The rocking cart, a piece of children's furniture and play equipment, was created under Mart Stam's supervision and received an award from “spiel gut” in Ulm in 1957. In 1949 his first daughter Anna Franziska was born. He was a student in Marianne Brandt's seminar in 1950/1951 , and the two of them had a friendly and professional relationship until her death. In 1955, Brockhage built his own workshop in Schwarzenberg, where he was born, and from then on he worked as a freelancer.

After a long stay in Cuba in 1965, his house in Schwarzenberg was built in 1968 with the collaboration of the architect and designer Robert Lenz (collaboration in Le Corbusier's studio ). From 1967 to 1977 he was a lecturer at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. In 1968 he began his sculptural work in wood and concrete. Three years later, in 1971, he had his first exhibition at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig with Thea Reichart. In 1973 Brockhage became chairman of the sales cooperative for visual artists in Karl-Marx-Stadt and was a co-founder of the gallery above . In 1977 he was appointed professor at the College of Applied Arts (today the department of the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau) in Schneeberg . Between 1978 and 1989 he went on several study trips to France, during which he studied the architecture of Le Corbusier at the Dominican monastery Sainte Marie de la Tourette in Eveux-sur-Arbresle / Lyon and the pilgrimage church of Ronchamp. From 1979, Jörg Beier, Andreas Schmidt, Hartmut Rademann and his son Peter Paul Brockhage worked for him as artistic collaborators . In 1985 he started with freelance work and assemblies in oak, concrete and bronze.

From 1989–1991 he worked on the sculptures for a multi-year exhibition in the Kamp monastery baroque garden . His works are represented in several public collections, as art in buildings and in private ownership. Shortly before his death in January 2009, he took over the patronage of the 3rd Schwarzenberg Art Prize art-figura.

In 2009 his monumental wooden design "Strandburg", which he had created for the Berlin Palast-Hotel, was torn down and the remains of it dumped in the courtyard of his Schwarzenberg studio.

From 2000 until his death in February 2009, he wrote several books, among others about the Bauhausler Marianne Brandt, the art of carving in the Erzgebirge and his own work.

Works

Rearing up by Hans Brockhage in the Kaisergarten in Oberhausen
St. Wolfgang Church (Schneeberg) , wood sculptures Pietà by Hans Brockhage

Free work / selection

  • 1968 Wooden walls in the vestibule and room dividers in the self-service buffet of the Fichtelberghaus
  • 1984 Wooden stele at the Mittweida engineering college in the multi-purpose room of the cafeteria
  • 1985 event , oak wood
  • 1986 Jüngling zu Nain , oak wood
  • 1986 Rearing up , oak wood, height 5 m
  • 1989 Poem of Dance , oak wood, height 2.20 m
  • 1989/90 But he moved his street happily , oak wood, height 2.85 m
  • 1990 Memorial for the Jewish girl Betty Reis, oak wood
  • 1995 Vertical collapse II , oak wood
  • 2000 offering / sacrifice , oak / bronze
  • 2001 Poem of Dance , bronze cast from wood
  • 2002 gate , oak wood
  • 2003 Between , oak wood

Locations free work / selection

Building-related work / selection

  • 1968 Wall design in the Fichtelberg House, Oberwiesenthal
  • 1971 exposed concrete (form of wood), Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1979 Plastic beach castle in the hotel , Palasthotel Berlin (demolished in 2000)
  • 1982–83 altar wall (concrete structure) and building sculpture (crucifix) in bog oak, Bonhoeffer community center Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1988 “Schwemmholz”, Baabe holiday home
  • 1989 Design of the Almas restaurant in Irkutsk (Russia)
  • 1989 “Balkenwerk” holiday home in Schöneck / Vogtland
  • 1995 Wall design, cafeteria of the Bergakademie Freiberg, with Clauss Dietel
  • 2001 Building sculptural work, Hotel Mercure Kongress Chemnitz

Working as a designer

  • 1950 swing car
  • 1950 hand and marionette puppets (diploma)

Exhibitions / selection

  • 1973 Galerie Zecheta, Warsaw; Gallery above, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1976 Art Museum, Tampere / Finland (with Dr. Thea Reichart)
  • 1977 VIII. Art Exhibition of the GDR, Dresden (participation)
  • 1978 Second Quadriennial of Arts and Crafts of Socialist Countries, Erfurt (participation)
  • 1980 Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau (with Michael Morgner )
  • 1983 IX. Art exhibition of the GDR, Dresden (participation)
  • 1985 Galerie unter den Linden, Berlin (with Gregor Kozik); New German Art Association, Berlin / West (with Morgner, Ranft, Kozik, Teubner); Hohenluftchausee Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1985 Wood Symposium Bermsgrün, with Marielies Riebesel , Manfred Schindler , Gerhard Gampfer , Gunter Beier , Jörg Beier , Gerd Kaden
  • 1986 "Durchblick II", Ludwig Institute for Art of the GDR, Oberhausen Castle; Ludwig Institute, Aachen
  • 1989 center d´culturelle, Belfort (France) (with Gregor Kozik)
  • 1989 Galerie Beethovenstraße, Düsseldorf (with Michael Morgner)
  • 1989/90 Baroque garden Kloster Kamp Linfort, Kamp Linfort
  • 2015/16 German Bundestag / Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin
  • 2015/16 Hans Brockhage retrospective , Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz

Collections

Honourings and prices

Publications

  • Hans Brockhage and Reinhold Lindner: Marianne Brandt. 'Have I ever thought of art'. Chemnitzer Verlag, 2001. ISBN 3-928678-63-9
  • Hans Brockhage: dealing with wood. 2004. ISBN 3-00-014404-8
  • Hans Brockhage: Carving from the Glatzer Bergland, Adler and Jeseníky Mountains. Schwarzenberg: Self-published, 2005. ISBN 3-00-017472-9
  • Hans Brockhage: Signature 2008. Schwarzenberg: Self-published, 2008. ISBN 978-3-937190-15-0
  • Hans Brockhage: Paradise is longing. Mironde-Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-937654-36-2

Web links

Commons : Hans Brockhage  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Schwarzenberg Art Prize , on schwarzenberg.de, accessed on August 19, 2019
  2. ↑ Peter Michel: Arrival in Freedom. Essays against the loss of value over time , Berlin 2011, p. 179.
  3. ↑ Uwe Rechtenbach: Werkschau also reminds of Jalta-Bar, In: Freie Presse , December 8, 2015, p. 12.
  4. ↑ ND of May 27, 1976, p. 4.
  5. ↑ ND of June 28, 1976, p. 4.
  6. ^ ND of October 8, 1983, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Brockhage, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2009
Place of death Schwarzenberg