Harald Stieding

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Harald Stieding
Atelierhaus Homburger Weg, Bad Langensalza
Final resting place. The tombstone is a work by the artist

Harald Stieding (born January 6, 1940 in Ufhoven ; died April 13, 2016 in Bad Langensalza ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist. The painter Jan Stieding is his son.

Life

Harald Stieding began an apprenticeship as a stonemason at the age of 15 and studied from 1960 at the University of Applied Arts in Leipzig. In 1967 he joined the Association of Visual Artists and has been working freelance in Bad Langensalza since 1969, most recently in his studio house on Homburger Weg in Bad Langensalza, which was built according to his own designs at the end of the 1980s.

His sculptural works, including many commissioned works that commemorate important personalities and events, can be found formative in the cityscape and many parks in Bad Langensalza, in many other places in Thuringia and beyond.

One of the last great works by Harald Stieding is the Adenauer-Schuman memorial to commemorate the first meeting of the two statesmen on October 10, 1948, who thus made an important contribution to the Franco-German rapprochement in Bassenheim . The tallest of the twelve basalt steles of the monument, inaugurated on June 18, 2012 in the presence of Prime Minister Kurt Beck next to the town hall of Bassenheim, carries a sculpture of Europa on the bull. Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer face each other on two lower steles of the complex .

  • Adenauer-Schumann memorial in Bassenheim
  • Bassenheim, Memorial Sign - Schuman.JPG
  • Bassenheim Adenauer-Schuman Memorial Sign (2015 Sp) .JPG
  • Bassenheim, Adenauer-Schuman-Gedenkzeichen - Europe (2015-06-07 Sp) .jpg
  • Bassenheim, Memorial Sign - Adenauer .JPG

After the death of the artist, who found his final resting place in the main cemetery in Bad Langensalza, his son Jan Stieding took over the studio house, which is essentially in its original condition. a. can be visited on the "Open Studios Day in Thuringia". The estate is also managed by Jan Stieding and his wife, the art historian Katja Schlenker.

Web links

Commons : Harald Stieding  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian General. Obituary notice. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Thuringian regional newspaper . Retrieved April 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ Sculpture Symposium . Retrieved April 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ RLP.de: worthy monument with great symbolism. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ Thuringian General . Retrieved April 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Stieding, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ufhoven
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2016
Place of death Bad Langensalza