Hans Steger (sculptor)

Hans Steger , also Johannes Steger, (born June 12, 1907 in Zeulenroda , † January 9, 1968 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Bronze figure high diver or Ingrid Krämer at the swimming pool Freiberger Platz in Dresden

Life

From 1921 to 1926 Steger was apprenticed as a wood sculptor, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Georg Wrba and from 1928 at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin with Wilhelm Gerstel . From 1932 he worked as a freelance sculptor, in 1934 with his own studio in Weimar. He did military service from 1940 to 1945. In 1954 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts.

Steger mainly created portrait sculptures and felt closely connected to the realistic tradition of German sculpture of the first half of the 20th century. Important role models were Wilhelm Gerstel, Hermann Blumenthal , Fritz Cremer , Waldemar Grzimek and Wilhelm Lehmbruck . In doing so, he did not adopt their forms, but developed them into his own thanks to his creative power.

Honors

• In 1968 he was posthumously awarded the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden. The reason for the award states: He represented the new person who had changed due to the changed social conditions during the construction of socialism in the GDR and thus came from the individual to the general.

Works (selection

• 1949/50: Inclined women's heads
• 1954/55: Memorial to the chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner , Jena
• 1963–1968: bronze figure high diver , completed by Wilhelm Landgraf and Helmut Heinze , swimming pool Freiberger Platz in Dresden
• 1965–1968: Ascending

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
2. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of June 27, 1968, p. 2.

literature

• Nationalgalerie Berlin - Art in the GDR , Seemann Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-86502-077-1
• Hans Steger - Sculpture and Drawings , in: Sächsische Zeitung of July 17, 1968, p. 4