Hans Schröder (artist)

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Hans Schröder

Hans Schröder (born July 28, 1930 in Saarbrücken ; † April 6, 2010 there ) was a German sculptor and painter.

biography

From his earliest childhood, Hans Schröder had a marked inclination for drawing, sketching and modeling. When choosing a career, he was faced with a father who had little understanding of his son's artistic inclinations; According to the father's wishes, he was to take over his sausage and meat factory. What was remarkable about this father-son relationship was that the father himself was art-minded and put together a respectable art collection. At a later age he had these auctioned in London; it has been scattered to the wind since then.

After breaking off an apprenticeship as a butcher, Hans Schröder prevailed and began studying at the state drawing academy in Hanau am Main in the early 1950s , which at that time had the status of a technical school for goldsmithing . There he successfully passed his journeyman's examination to become a goldsmith in 1952. In this profession he worked from 1953 in the Parisian Atelier Cartier and attended evening courses in drawing and modeling at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the Paris quarter of Montparnasse .

After returning to Saarland, he studied at the Saarbrücken "Schule für Kunsthandwerk" in the sculpture class with Theo Siegle , but had to break off this course after two semesters because the school was closed. Since the mid-1950s Schröder devoted himself more and more to the fine arts . Since then , his preferred forms of artistic expression have been sculptures , reliefs , paintings , collages and drawings .

In apparent contradiction to his sensitive art, Schröder devoted himself to boxing in his youth, in which he made it to the Saarland champion in the light heavyweight division.

Schröder's thirst for knowledge led him to many long-distance trips, including a. to China, Africa and America. In 1984 he opened a lavishly designed "art house" with a studio in Saarbrücken, which is open to the public and in which he also lived and worked.

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Schröder sculpture "Eva" (bronze cast)

In addition to painting and collaging, the artist mainly focused on modeling . He worked his models, sculptures and reliefs, predominantly in bronze . His preferred motifs came from the world of sports and the animal kingdom; for him the moving figure, the sporting fight as well as the struggle for life were in the foreground. Furthermore, Schröder was known for his idiosyncratic and expressive portrait sculptures of personalities of contemporary history, u. a. the German football official Hermann Neuberger . His main motive, however, was the woman. He portrayed them in the most varied of postures and in just as different situations, where he primarily played with erotic motifs and voyeuristic elements. For the artist, however, the mere image was not important, rather he brought "characteristics of life and forms of energy" (Schröder), that is, his own emotions, into the bronze work. The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (May 20, 1976) writes: "Schröder's sculptures convince with their naturalness and unaffected freshness".

In the early 1990s, Schröder donated a number of works to the city of St. Ingbert that could be selected from his entire collection. The works have found their place in St. Ingbert's "Kulturhaus" (Annastraße). Schröder was the city. St. Ingbert has a very close bond, as it awarded him the Albert Weisgerber Prize for Fine Art and subsequently awarded him a number of commissioned works.

Awards / prizes

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1956 City Museum ( St. Ingbert )
  • 1958 Musée des arts modern (Paris)
  • 1976 Folkwang Museum (Essen)
  • 1977 Kunsthaus ( Bonn )
  • 1979 Arndt Gallery (Munich)
  • 1981/82 House of Art (Munich)
  • 1982 Saarland Museum / Modern Gallery (Saarbrücken)
  • 1984 Tbilisi ( Georgia )
  • 1995 Neuheisel Gallery (Saarbrücken)
  • 1997 Exhibition "Golden Europe" ( Innsbruck )
  • 1998 Gallery in the castle ( Zweibrücken )
  • 1999 Center universitaire du Luxembourg ( Luxembourg City )
  • 2005 Gallery in the town hall ( Merzig )
  • 2007 Gallery 48 (Saarbrücken)
  • 2009 Europa Museum (Schengen / Luxembourg)

Art in public space (selection)

literature

  • Hans Schröder. Sculptures and graphics 1970 - 1980 . Wolf, Munich approx. 1980, 84 pp.
  • Hans Schröder . Exhibition catalog Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum, Krüger, Dillingen 1982. 131 p., Numerous. Fig.
  • Hans Schröder - sculptures, drawings, photo collages, etc. Paintings 1950-1988 . Luca Verlag, Freren 1989. 272 ​​S., numerous. Fig. ISBN 3-923641-15-X
  • Hans Schröder . With a foreword by the artist, o. O., Verl. U. Year. 47 p., Numer. Color ill.

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personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2010
Place of death Saarbrücken