Hans Kock

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Hans Kock at the presentation of the art prize by Prime Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg (left), 1972

Hans Kock (born December 27, 1920 in Kiel , † September 10, 2007 in Kiel-Schilksee ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Hans Kock came to Hamburg with his family in 1930 , attended the Albrecht-Thaer-Oberrealschule and studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig after the end of the Second World War , but switched from architecture to sculpture in 1948. At the Hamburg State Art School he became a master student and later an employee of the sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks , who after the First World War a . a. had taught at the Bauhaus, was ostracized by the Nazis and had been a professor in Hamburg since 1946. From 1953 Hans Kock was a freelance sculptor in Kiel and Hamburg. Kock's son Moritz was an architect. He died in 2009 when Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic.

Works

Head of the statue of Meteor by Hans Kock in front of the Ministry of Agriculture in Kiel (1957)

Kock's work includes sculptures in stone and metal as well as drawings.

Four sculptures in the subway station Lübecker Straße, Hamburg (1962)
Dancing couple on Vinetaplatz in Kiel (1987)

Portrait busts

Hans Kock created portrait busts of the former Federal President Theodor Heuss , the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the former Hamburg Mayor and Mayor Peter Schulz .

architectural art

  • Hamburg:

The Hamburg subway station Lübecker Straße , which was rebuilt in 1962, is adorned with four granite sculptures with plant motifs that refer to the Walddörferbahn. In 1965 the stone sculpture “Encounter” was set up in the foyer of the “ Hamburg-Haus Eimsbüttel ” cultural center in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . In the Alsterfleet at Hamburg's Adolphsbrücke ( Jungfernstieg ), the stone figure Schöne Hamburgerin from 1984 stands on a steel stele . The bronze Minerva statue on the Minerva fountain on the Altona fish market is a work by him from 1989. In 1999, the Hamburger was on the east gable Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen (Hamburg) a statue of Saint Catherine of Alexandria created by Kock was erected.

  • Kiel:

In Kiel-Gaarden on Vineta-Platz you can find Kock's dancing couple (1987) Kock's portrait of the Olympic jumper Meteor (1957) is on the Ministry of Agriculture in Kiel . In front of the Audimax of the University in Kiel-Ravensberg, Kock's Kiel beach figure used to stand and has been back since 2010 . In the courtyard of the Provincial Building on Sophienblatt in Kiel stands Kock's Female Figure with a Cloth (1981).

Church furnishings

Kock's works, from individual pieces to complete furnishings, can be found in 30 churches in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg as well as in Greifswald .

In 1973 he designed the interior of St. Cyriacus (Kellinghusen) . Between 1973 and 1978 Hans Kock worked on the redesign of the interior of the Ansgar Church in Kiel-Blücherplatz .

Kock created the memorial for the dead of the world wars at the Erlöserkirche in Hamburg - Borgfelde . Kock also designed the altar, the monumental crucifix (4.60 m high) and some candlesticks in the Greifswald Cathedral of St. Nikolai .

In the mid-1970s, Hans Kock designed the Evangelical Lutheran Community Center in Hamburg Mümmelmannsberg together with the architect Friedhelm Grundmann . It was completed in 1976 and added to the list of cultural monuments to be protected in Hamburg in 2007.

After it was decided in 1970 to commission Hans Kock and the architect Friedhelm Grundmann with the planning and design of the new Zacchaeus Church, the foundation stone was laid on April 8, 1973 and the Zacchaeus Church was inaugurated on November 11, 1973 Hamburg-Langenhorn, Käkenflur 22a. For this church, Hans Kock designed the bell tower and the large east window inside the church. In terms of design and color, Hans Kock also created the altar, cross, pulpit and baptismal font for the new Zacchaeus Church.

Exhibitions

In addition to many exhibitions in Germany and neighboring countries, he was also represented at the world exhibitions in Montreal and Osaka and at documenta III in Kassel in 1964 .

With the Hans Kock Foundation and the sculpture park at Gut Seekamp , he moved to Kiel, where his wife Anna, the daughter of the Kiel painter Hans Olde, was born .

Hans Kock was involved in the various events at Gut Seekamp with the following exhibitions.

  • 1996 Hans Kock - sculpture and drawing
  • 1997 Hans Kock and Heidegger
  • 2000 Anna Kock (died 1999) and Seekamp
  • 2001 Hans Kock - sculptures and drawings
  • 2004 International Museum Day May 16: Art encounters from the working world of the sculptor Hans Kock

Appreciation

In 1962 Kock received the Villa Romana Prize , in 1969 the Edwin Scharff Prize in Hamburg, in 1985 the plaque from the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg and in 1986 the Biermann Ratjen Medal Hamburg. In 1987 he was awarded the honorary professorship of the State of Schleswig-Holstein "in recognition of his outstanding sculptural oeuvre, which testifies to the wealth of forms and ideas" . In 1999 he received the Andreas Gayk Medal of the City of Kiel and in 2004 the Culture Prize of the City of Kiel for his life's work .

literature

  • Antonia Gottwald and Holger Zaborowski (eds.): Light - center - space: the work of the sculptor Hans Kock in Greifswald Cathedral 1982-1989. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner 2017 ISBN 978-3-7954-3265-2

Web links

Commons : Hans Kock  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in Tagesspiegel September 21, 2007 [1] Accessed June 12, 2015
  2. ↑ KUNST @ SH: Portrait of Hans Kock and presentation of various sculptures in public space , accessed on February 20, 2018
  3. ↑ KUNST @ SH: Description of the sculpture, photos and location , accessed on February 23, 2018
  4. ^ KUNST @ SH: Description of the sculpture, photos and location , accessed on February 20, 2018
  5. ↑ KUNST @ SH: Description of the sculpture, photos and location , accessed on February 23, 2018
  6. ^ Wolfgang von Hennings: Hans Kock. The sculptor of the north. In: North Elbian Voices 2011, Issue 3, pp. 40–43, ISSN  0938-3697
  7. ↑ Ars Viva
  8. ↑ Honorary professors on the website of the State of Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kock, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2007
Place of death Kiel-Schilksee