Hans Wimmer

This article deals with the German sculptor; for other people see Johann Wimmer .

Hans Wimmer, 1983

Hans Wimmer (born March 19, 1907 in Pfarrkirchen ; † August 31, 1992 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

From 1928 to 1935 he studied at the Academy of Liberal Arts in Munich . 1940 stay at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo . From 1949 to 1972 he was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . His works belong to figurative sculpture. He was close friends with Hans Carossa , Olaf Gulbransson , Richard Billinger and Gerhard Marcks , among others .

After the Second World War , Wimmer created figurative works contrary to the zeitgeist. With recourse to antiquity ( Die Wagenlenkerin ) and certain tendencies of classical modernism such as B. Wilhelm Lehmbruck ( The great reclining figure), he was able to overcome the dehumanized productions of the National Socialist era and win back figural sculpture as an art form for the present.

Hans Wimmer participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta 1 in Kassel (1955), the Venice Biennale (1958) and the world exhibition in Montreal (1967). As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Wimmer took part in seven major annual DKB exhibitions between 1952 and 1966.

He bequeathed a large part of his works to the city of Passau , which set up its own Hans Wimmer collection in the Oberhaus Museum in 1987 . His studio and a large part of the original plaster are permanently exhibited in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle . He is buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery .

Recent exhibitions

• Renaissance of the figure , April - May 2005 in Nuremberg (Maxtorhof)
• The sculptor Hans Wimmer , August - October 2007, Neustrelitz Castle Church
• Shape - form - figure. Hans Wimmer and the Munich School of Sculpture . Passau, Güstrow, Berlin June 2008 to January 2009

Awards

• 1950: Award for fine arts from the City of Munich
• 1957: North Rhine-Westphalia Art Prize
• 1966: Pour le mérite for science and the arts
• 1967: Large Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with a star
• 1968: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1970: Villa Massimo (invited as guest of honor)
• 1971: Bavarian poet thaler
• 1980: Upper Bavarian Culture Prize
• 1982: Schwabing Art Prize (Honorary Prize)
• 1984: Order of Gregorius
• 1986: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Large sculptures in public space (selection)

• Young man kneeling , Federal Mint , Bern (1954)
• Richard-Strauss-Brunnen , Kaufingerstraße in Munich (1962)
• Equestrian statue of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian , north side of the Old Court , Munich (1967)
• Wimmer-Roß , Pfarrkirchen (1966)
• Memorial for the victims of the concentration camps , Paulskirche , Frankfurt am Main (1964)
• Dying soldier from the warrior memorial in Catania, Sicily (1965)
• Memorial of the German Army on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress , Koblenz (1972)
• Trojan horse , southeast side of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (1977)

Works (selection)

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  Windspiel, 1960, in front of the Lenbachhaus in Munich

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  Equestrian monument for Ludwig the Bavarian , 1967, in Munich at the old court

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  Horse head, 1976, Berlin-Tiergarten

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  Trojan horse, 1976–1981, in Munich at the Alte Pinakothek

literature

• Hans Konrad Röthel : The sculptor Hans Wimmer . With an introduction by Max Huggler . Munich 1964.
• Uta Kuhl (published by the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf ): Hans Wimmer, The plastic work . Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-88452-789-4
• Vincent Mayr: An "incorrigible representational" - the sculptor Hans Wimmer in Munich . In: Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege (Ed.): Schönere Heimat , 4, 2009, p. 237 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Villa Massimo scholarship holders from 1913 to 2014: Hans Wimmer, Sculptor, 1940 ( memento of November 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on: villamassimo.de, accessed on March 1, 2016.
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Participation in exhibitions: Wimmer, Hans (accessed on February 21, 2016)
3. ^ Hans Wimmer Collection (accessed March 8, 2016)
4. ↑ s. Jobst Knigge : The Villa Massimo in Rome 1933–1943. Struggle for artistic independence. Humboldt University, Berlin 2013, p. 287 ( online , PDF; 26.3 MB)
5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
6. ^ Catalog of the German National Library

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Hans Wimmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Private pages on Hans Wimmer by Theodor Frey
• Materials by and about Hans Wimmer in the documenta archive
• Video: Film documents on contemporary history - Hans Wimmer in his studio, Munich 1968 . Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) 1968, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.3203 / IWF / G-127 .