Hans Steinbrenner (sculptor)

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Cuboid sculpture (1965). Sculpture garden of the Museum Quadrat Bottrop

Hans Steinbrenner (born March 25, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 18, 2008 there ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Figure (1961). Sandgasse, Frankfurt am Main

Steinbrenner grew up in the Praunheim district of Frankfurt . After the Second World War , he completed an apprenticeship at the Werkkunstschule from 1946 to 1949 (today the University of Design ) in Offenbach am Main . This was followed by further training at the Städelschule in Frankfurt until 1952 . He then studied at the Munich Art Academy until 1954 , where Steinbrenner was a student of the sculptor Toni Stadler (1888–1982). Hans Steinbrenner is the older brother of the German sculptor Klaus Steinbrenner . From 1958 to 1963 he worked as a sculptor together with his brother as an artist couple in the sculptor group Hans & Klaus Steinbrenner in Frankfurt am Main. From 1964 to 2008 he lived in the Frankfurt artist colony in Praunheim .

Steinbrenner's work, whose first sculptures date from the late 1940s, was initially influenced by his teachers. He created classically shaped individual and group figures. By the mid-1950s, Steinbrenner's style changed and was shaped by his meeting with the sculptors Brâncuși (1876–1957) and Laurens (1895–1954) in Paris. Abstract, biomorphic figures up to two meters high were created . In the 1960s he turned to geometric-abstract, rhythmically structured cuboid sculptures. In the last phase of his work (around the end of the 1960s) Steinbrenner once again changed his stylistic expression towards abstract, stele-like figures. Together with his brother, they were represented as Hans & Klaus Steinbrenner with a large wooden figure in 1964 at documenta III in Kassel in the Aspects 1964 department .

Its main materials were shell limestone, wood and bronze.

Steinbrenner had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1999 .

Honors

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public space

Numerous works by Steinbrenner are set up on public roads and places, including in Bochum, Bottrop, Bremen, Gießen, Marl, Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg. The majority of his works in public space can be found in the Rhine-Main area (e.g. Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Bad Homburg). In Frankfurt, the 1993 “figure” made of shell limestone stands in the sculpture garden of the Städel on the Schaumainkai, the bronze “figure” from 1961 in Sandgasse, made of wood, a writing stele (1968) in Grüneburgpark and one “figure” each on the grounds of the Hessischer Rundfunk and on Detmolder Platz. In 1979 he designed the stainless steel fountain on Merianplatz . Two more of Steinbrenner's sculptures are in the possession of the Frankfurt Städel .

  • Writing stele (1968), Grüneburgpark, Frankfurt am Main

  • Figure (1961/1981), Sculpture Park Museum Quadrat, Bottrop

  • Figure (1983), Paracelsus Clinic, Marl

  • Playable sculpture in the north-west center of Frankfurt am Main (dismantled)

literature

  • Astrid Jacobs: Hans Steinbrenner - Parable of Harmony: Sculptures , axel dielmann-verlag, Frankfurt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86638-125-4 .
  • Alexander Bastek (arr.): Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel , Frankfurt a. M .: Städel 2006, ISBN 9783935283113 , pp. 256-258.

Web links

Commons : Hans Steinbrenner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ars Viva
  2. ^ Sculpture, painting and graphics by Hans Steinbrenner , Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Steinbrenner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2008
Place of death Frankfurt am Main