Hans Wachter (sculptor)

Hans Wachter (born April 4, 1931 in Rauns near Waltenhofen , † November 12, 2005 in Kempten ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a wood sculptor in Kempten, Hans Wachter completed further training as a stone sculptor in Switzerland . From 1954 to 1961 he studied as a master student with Josef Henselmann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . After that, Wachter took over the workshop of his teacher Joser Mayr in 1961 and worked as a freelance artist in Kempten for more than four decades.

Wachter's preferred materials were wood and stone, especially shell limestone , concrete , plus copper sheet and bronze . Its themes are taken from the Christian - Jewish tradition. Many of Wachter's works can be seen in sacred buildings . He also designed entire church buildings, many fountains , public spaces, monuments and tombs . The most important works by Wachter are located in southern Germany and Berlin , but also in Frankfurt am Main and Belmont in California / USA. For the location at the port market in Dillingen an der Donau , he created a fountain in honor of the submarine inventor Wilhelm Bauer who was born there .

Hans Wachter died in Kempten at the age of 74; his grave is in the local central cemetery.

Honors

In 2016 the place at the Sing- und Musikschule (sms) in Kempten, where the duck fountain already stands, was named "Hans-Wachter-Platz".

Awards and successes in competitions (selection)

1962: Art Prize of the City of Kempten for the bronze portrait "The Bride"
1962: Winner of the Sparkassenhaus competition (with King David )

Works (selection)

Outside of Bavarian Swabia

Friedland Memorial , Friedland (Lower Saxony) , (1967/68 - artistic design)
Bavarian bell in the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion , Jerusalem , Israel (1972)
On the Holy Martyrs of Africa, Berlin (1976–1993)
Way of the Cross and Antonius of Padua (bronze statue) in Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz (1981–1997)
Baptismal font of St. Hedwig's Cathedral , Berlin (1977/1978, 1982/1983)
St. Benedikt Monastery Church , Benediktbeuern (1967, 1973); in the Allgäu

In Bavarian Swabia

Department store fountain, Augsburg (1973)
St. Verena, Fischen im Allgäu (1975–1994)
People's altar in St. Michael in Sonthofen (1984)
Martinsbrunnen, Waltenhofen (2002)
Metal cross in front of the Protestant church in Waltenhofen (2004)

Kempten

Equipment of the clinic chapel of the former district hospital in Kempten (1971), (altar, sacrament column, free hanging crucifix above the altar, bronze relief on the gallery parapet, apostle chandelier made of shell limestone, 15 stations of the cross on bronze tablets)
St. Ulrich , Kempten (1965–1982)
Parish Church of St. Lorenz , Kempten (1966–1988)
Pan playing the flute, Hildegardis-Gymnasium Kempten (1963)
St. Hedwig , Kempten (1987–1992)
Marienbrunnen in front of the soul chapel in Kempten
Berlin milestone at Berliner Platz in Kempten
Albert Wehr fountain at the Zumsteinhaus
August-Fischer-Brunnen in the pedestrian zone ( Fischerstrasse ) in Kempten
Taubenbrunnen at the Wittelsbach school
Fountain (without name) on Sigmund-Ullmann-Platz ( Müßiggengelzunfthaus )
Duck fountain in front of the singing and music school in Kempten
Monastery gate column on the border between imperial and monastery town in Kempten (2003)
Figure "King David" in the Zumsteingarten in Kempten (1962)

gallery

Altar block made of shell limestone in the Kempten clinic chapel
Berlin milestone at Berliner Platz in Kempten
King David in the Zumsteingarten in Kempten
August Fischer fountain in Kempten
Fountain in front of the soul chapel in Kempten
Fountain at Sigmund-Ullmann-Platz in Kempten
Monastery gate column in Kempten
Duck fountain in Kempten

Web links

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

Wachter exhibition 2015

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b churches and squares bear his signature , Local newspaper online 15 November 2005 all-in.de, accessed on June 4, 2016
↑ Ratsinfo Kempten , ratsinfo.kempten.de, accessed on June 4, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 2015 - Memory of Hans Wachter. In: WEB site. Lions Club Kempten, accessed June 5, 2016 .
^ Anteroom - Antonius statue , Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz) , accessed on March 16, 2017
↑ Proof on the cathedral page , accessed on March 21, 2013
^ Günther Bartel, Gertrud Seyboth: Das Augsburger Brunnenbuch. Presse- und Druckverlag, Augsburg 1973, p. 116.
^ Photograph from the clinic chapel in Kempten, Memminger Strasse

personal data
SURNAME	Wachter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rauns near Waltenhofen
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 2005
Place of death	Kempten

[A-1] churches and squares bear his signature , Local newspaper online 15 November 2005 all-in.de, accessed on June 4, 2016

[2] Ratsinfo Kempten , ratsinfo.kempten.de, accessed on June 4, 2016.

[Löwen-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 2015 - Memory of Hans Wachter. In: WEB site. Lions Club Kempten, accessed June 5, 2016 .

[4] Anteroom - Antonius statue , Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz) , accessed on March 16, 2017

[5] Proof on the cathedral page , accessed on March 21, 2013

[6] Günther Bartel, Gertrud Seyboth: Das Augsburger Brunnenbuch. Presse- und Druckverlag, Augsburg 1973, p. 116.

[7] Photograph from the clinic chapel in Kempten, Memminger Strasse