Hans Karl Burgeff
Hans Karl Burgeff (born April 20, 1928 in Würzburg ; † November 25, 2005 in Lohmar ) was a German sculptor , medalist and art professor who worked mainly in the Rhineland . Sacred art as well as the design of medals and reliefs took up a large part of his work.
Life
Hans Karl Burgeff was the son of Hans Burgeff , a university professor of botany . He first studied “General Natural Sciences” at the university in his hometown of Würzburg. He later studied art history in Stuttgart and Tübingen . In 1951 he moved to the Cologne factory schools , studied sculpture and sculpture with Ludwig Gies and was appointed master class in 1956 . From 1956 to 1960 he was married to Eva Burgeff , whom he had met at the Cologne factory schools.
Self-employed from 1957 , Burgeff quickly became known for his predominantly sacred objects. These included church portals, altar men , crucifixes and statues of saints. Of Burgeff's figures, reliefs and plaques, the memorial plaque for Cardinal Höffner in Münster is particularly well-known (1993). Works by the artist are among others. a. in the sculpture park of Moyland Castle and at Cologne Cathedral .
He was appointed to the Cologne Werkschulen as the successor of Kurt Schwippert and appointed professor for sculpture and bronze sculpture. Burgeff was respected and loved by his art students because of his ability to explain theory and practice in an understandable way. One of his master students in 1976 was Günter Thelen (Leverkusen) who, after completing his studies, worked as a lecturer and set up a studio in Nörvenich (Düren district).
In 1968 Burgeff received the Sculptor Prize of the City of Cologne. In 2001 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Medal Art. In 2005 he was honored in Dresden a few days before his death as the first winner of the Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art.
Hans Karl Burgeff was buried in Weibern (Eifel) . The tombstone represents two bundles of ears of corn, created by his last master student Ulrich Görtz. The legacy of Burgeff's medals went to the Münzkabinett Berlin , where his extensive correspondence with Georg Wimmelmann from the 1970s on the subject of a contemporary revival of medal art is kept.
Work (selection)
- Tabernacle stele in St. Henry in Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg.
- Stations of the Cross in St. Joseph , Cologne-Rodenkirchen .
Literature (selection)
- Elisabeth Wynhoff: Hans Karl Burgeff, medals, plaques, coins. Complete directory 1951–1997 based on the holdings in the Museum Schloß Moyland , ed. from the Foundation Museum Schloß Moyland - Van der Grinten Collection - Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in connection with the German Society for Medal Art eV, Bedburg-Hau: Museum Schloss Moyland; [Berlin]: German Society for Medal Art , 1999, ISBN 3-929042-21-5
- Wolfgang Steguweit , Heinz W. Müller, Gisa Steguweit: Medal art in Cologne in the 20th century. From Ludwig Gies to Karl Burgeff (= The Art Medal in Germany , Vol. 24), accompanying document to the exhibition of the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in the Bode-Museum from October 18 to January 31, 2008, Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2568-6 (Gebr. Mann) and ISBN 3-7861-2568-6 (Gebr. Mann) and ISBN 978-3-88609-602-2 (Münzkabinett); contents
- Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , part 1 (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV , volume 84). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2012, pp. 5–6 (with 11 illustrations); PDF
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Karl Burgeff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Medals from Hans Karl Burgeff in the interactive catalog of the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Artist archive, European Culture Foundation, Bonn.
- ^ Vita Thelen, Museum of European Art in Nörvenich Castle .
- ↑ medaillenkunst.de: Artist "B" / Prof. Hans Karl Burgeff (accessed on September 19, 2015)
- ↑ Eberhard Linke , Hans Liepmann: Georg Wimmelmann - memories of a friend. ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgeff, Hans Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, medalist and art professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 2005 |
| Place of death | Lohmar |