Heath Dobberkau

Sculpture The Seated Woman by Heide Dobberkau in the Kurpark Burtscheid (1962)

Bechener donkey by Heide Dobberkau (1983)

Heide Dobberkau (born January 23, 1929 in Celle ) is a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Heike Dobberkau trained from 1947 to 1951 at the Werkkunstschule Hannover with Hermann Scheuertstuhl and 1951-1953 at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg with Edwin Scharff . Then she started her own business as a sculptor in Cologne. She has lived and worked in Refrath ( Bergisch Gladbach ) since 1964 .

Dobberkau's works are mainly small sculptures , woodcuts and medals that are exhibited in Cologne, the Focke Museum Bremen and the Kunsthalle Hamburg . Some of her medals are part of the Georg Wimmelmann collection in the Münzkabinett Berlin ; more can be seen in the State Coin Collection in Munich , in the State Coin Cabinet of Saxony-Anhalt , in the Germanic National Museum , in the Gotha Castle Museum and in the coin cabinets in London , Paris and Stockholm . The works of the “subtle, quiet artist” show animals (after depicting female nudes in the 1960s and 1970s) as the central and recurring motif. Gisa Steguweit judges Dobberkau's “language of medals” as “intensive and understandable”, “with few formal elements and without any decoration”. She continues: “The recognition value of the depicted individual is assured despite economical means, the animal is identifiable and is presented to us in a certain experienced situation. Only the content dimension, the essentials that Heide Dobberkau has captured in one of her animals and would like to convey, affects the viewer. "

From 1969 to 1992 Dobberkau took part in the FIDEM biennials for medal art. In 2006 she received the Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art for her life's work .

Literature (not evaluated)

• Eva Wipplinger: Medalists in Germany. Creativity in the past and present. State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, Women's Museum Bonn. Halle 1992, ISBN 3-86105-066-8 , p. 43 f.
• Martin Heidemann: A visit to the sculptor and medalist Heide Dobberkau. In: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The Art Medal in Germany 1995–1998, with additions since 1990 (= The Art Medal in Germany Volume 10). German Society for Medal Art in conjunction with the National Museums in Berlin, Münzkabinett, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2329-2 , pp. 17-26.
• Arnold Nieuwendam: The Reliefs of Heide Dobberkau. In: The Medal. ISSN  0263-7707 . No. 36, 2000, pp. 68-74. In German: The small reliefs by Heide Dobberkau. In: Monetary History News . 2000, No. 198, pp. 199-202.
• Heath Dobberkau. In: Wolfgang Steguweit , Heinz W. Müller , Gisa Steguweit: Medal art in Cologne in the 20th century. From Ludwig Gies to Karl Burgeff (= The Art Medal in Germany. Volume 24). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2568-6 , pp. 293-298.

Web links

• Heath Dobberkau. Brief CV. In: German Society for Medal Art (website), also list of Dobberkau's medals .
• Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art. Exhibition of the award winners 2005–2008 (= The Art Medal in Germany Volume 26). Kling-Druck, Kressbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-9804329-2-4 , online at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , p. 101 (short biography with picture).
• Arthur Lamka: In memory of the Bergisch Gladbach victims of Nazi terror: A memorial for suffering and imprisonment. Artist Heide Dobberkau creates a work for the city. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . 1985, online in: BGV -Rhein-Berg.de , December 28, 2009 (with pictures).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit : Art medals of the present in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Catalog. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF), pp. 8 f., No. 53–64, available in the interactive catalog of the Münzkabinett. 
2. ^ Gisa Steguweit: Kindred spirits. Animal representations in the work of Heide Dobberkau. In: Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art. Exhibition of the award winners 2005–2008 (= The Art Medal in Germany Volume 26). ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kling-Druck, Kressbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-9804329-2-4 , online at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , pp. 37–49 (quotation p. 38). 
3. ↑ Steguweit: Kindred spirits. P. 47.
4. ^ Wolfgang Wissing: Laudation for Heide Dobberkau. At the award ceremony on September 1, 2006 in Solingen. In: Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock (arr.): The world “en miniature”. German medal art today, 2000–2006 (= The Art Medal in Germany 23). Exhibition booklet. Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86105-019-6 , pp. 61–63; Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art. Exhibition of the award winners 2005–2008 (= The Art Medal in Germany Volume 26). ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kling-Druck, Kressbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-9804329-2-4 , online at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin .