Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof

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Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof (born May 31, 1945 in Spremberg , Niederlausitz ) is a German sculptor , medalist and graphic artist .

Life

Bronze medal "Dialog", 1995, diameter 8.5 cm
Terracotta “How to make a bed”, 1993, diameter: 75 cm; 100 cm if it is exhibited as part of an object on earth

Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof began studying design at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle (Saale) in 1965 and graduated in 1971 with a diploma. She then worked as a designer for three years. In 1975 she turned to plastic design and studied sculpture from 1975 to 1978 with Gerhard Lichtenfeld , who also continued the Hallesche Medaillenschule , which is still active today in the 4th and 5th generation of students.

Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof was married to the painter and graphic artist Hannes H. Wagner from 1968 until his death in 2010 . They have a daughter, the mezzo-soprano Anja Daniela Wagner . From 1990 to 2000 the artist couple lived in Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin, in 2000 they returned to Halle (Saale), and from 1999 to 2012 they also had a studio in the Künstlerhof Frohnau in North Berlin .

In 1994 she was co-founder of the “Center Bagatelle” art association in Berlin-Frohnau . From 2007 she was editor of the satirical and aphoristic writings of Hannes H. Wagner in Edition Menschhausen .

Act

Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof prefers cast bronze and built-up terracotta , but also works with other materials and combines them. Following the castle tradition, her works are initially figurative. Later she tries to reduce the figurative to associative signs, such as B. at the monument in Hennigsdorf. A large part of her work is dedicated to the design of art medals and small reliefs.

With five other medalists ( Bernd Göbel , Carsten Theumer, Christoph Weihe , Maya Graber , Marcus Golter) from Halle (Saale), she developed the silver coinage in honor of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Halle, the medal stars for Halle , silver, width 172 mm, height 160 mm. This work was selected in 2006 when the German Medalist Prize "Johann Veit Döll" was awarded for the first time by the German Society for Medal Art (DGMK) among the "ten best contemporary medals" of the year. The medal was also shown in the German contribution to the World Medal Exhibition (FIDEM) 2007 in Colorado Springs. Then a copy was bought by the coin collection of the British Museum and the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle / Saale.

In 2018 she was awarded a medal among the TOP TEN of the German medalist award "Johann Veit Döll" (article in the magazine NNB 1/19) -.

In 2017 she designed the annual medal "Johann Joachim Winckelmann" for the German Society for Medal Art.

In 2019 Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof received the Hilde Broër Prize for her life's work in the field of medal art from the German Society for Medal Art and the Kressbronn / Bodensee cultural community.

Several times it was used for a coin competition to design a 10 DM or € 10 coin invited. Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof is a member of the FIDEM (Fédération Internationale de la Médailles d'Art), of the German Society for Medal Art and belongs to the group of Berlin medalists.

Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof has been involved in the German collection for the FIDEM World Medal Exhibition, which takes place every 2-3 years, since 1992 in London, 1994 in Budapest, 1996 in Neuchatel, 1998 in The Hague, 2000 in Weimar, 2002 in Paris, 2004 in Seixal, 2007 in Colorado Springs, 2010 in Tampere, 2012 in Glasgow, 2014 in Sofia, 2016 in Gent / Namur, 2018 in Ottawa / Canada. There is a catalog for each.

Prices

  • 1992–1993: 1st prize in the monument competition of the city of Hennigsdorf, with execution
  • 1998: Prize in a competition to design a sculpture for the Oranienburg Hospital, with execution
  • 2019: Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art from the German Society for Medal Art and the Kressbronn / Bodensee cultural community

Working in public space

Hall

Metal object, 5 m high, steel pipes, served as advertising plastic.

Hennigsdorf

  • “Memorial June 17, 1953 - Autumn 1989” , 1992/93, material: Franconian limestone, steel; Dimensions: steel wall (1) height 300 cm, steles (2) height 250 cm.

Between three limestone steles with the inscription »17. June 1953 ”and a horizontally and vertically torn steel wall with the inscription“ Autumn 1989 ”lies a 36-meter long path that is supposed to symbolize the years between 1953 and 1989. On October 3, 1993, the third anniversary of German reunification, the memorial was inaugurated on the former village green in Hennigsdorf in honor of the 5000 workers who demonstrated on June 17, 1953, moving via Berlin-Spandau to East Berlin.

Oranienburg

  • Breaking plant. Bronze for the Oranienburg Hospital, 1998, 2.30 m high, parts polished, cast by the Borchardt art foundry

Works in collections

Sculptural works can be found in the monastery of Our Dear Women (plastic collection) in Magdeburg, the Luther Hall in Wittenberg and the Oranienburg District Museum in Oranienburg Castle .

It is represented in the museum's medal collections in:

Berlin ( Münzkabinett der Staatliche Museen), Dresden ( Münzkabinett ), Gotha ( Schloss Friedenstein ), Halle Foundation Moritzburg , Apothekenmuseum Heidelberg, Munich ( State Coin Collection ), Nuremberg ( Germanisches Nationalmuseum ), Kremnica (Muzeum "Minci a Medali") in Slovakia , Rijksmuseum Leiden ( Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet ) in the Netherlands, London ( British Museum , Department of Coins and Medals), Nyíregyháza in Hungary and in Vienna ( University Archives )., Museum August Kestner , Hanover

In addition to public collections, it is also represented in various private collections, such as B. in the Haupt collection “30 Silberlinge”, Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection)

Abbreviations: G = group exhibition, K = catalog, E = individual exhibition

  • 1985 Young sculptors from the GDR , Our Dear Women Monastery, Magdeburg (K)
  • 1987 Reality and sculptor's drawing , Galerie Rähnitzgasse , Dresden (G, K)
  • 1988 VIII Biennale internationale dantesca di Ravenna , Ravenna, Italy (International Biennale for bronzes and small sculptures) (G, K)
  • 1991 Functie en Vrijheid - art ceramics from the former GDR , Kortemark and Hasselt / Belgium
  • 1992 Medal artists in Germany , State Gallery Moritzburg Halle (Saale) and Women's Museum Bonn (G, K)
  • 1993 traveling exhibition of the Lutherhalle Wittenberg , u. a. in Worms, Speyer, Göttingen (K)
  • 1994 Art Association Aschersleben (E)
  • 1995 “The bronze triangle” , Kremnica, Slovakia; Nyíregyháza, Hungary (G, K)
  • 1995–2002 Holder Mammon .. , Kunsthof Halberstadt, domicile Berlin, Gallery Bernau, Gallery Himmelreich Magdeburg, Hallescher Kunstverein, Ernst Rietschel Foundation Pulsnitz, Schwarzenberg Castle (P)
  • 1998 Bagatelle - 5 artists in the Pankow Gallery , Art Association "Center Bagatelle" Berlin (K)
  • 1999 BrandenburgArt - Positions of the 90s , Brandenburg State Representation at the Federal Government, Bonn, March 7th to April 23rd, 1999 (G, K)
  • 1999 bauart - Art in Public Space - State of Brandenburg , Museum Junge Kunst , Frankfurt (Oder) , July 11, 1999 to August 22, 1999 (G, K)
  • 2000/01 German medal art in the 20th century , Gotha, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (G, K)
  • 2001 Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof, Hannes H. Wagner: Tangents. Sculpture and painting. , from May 13th to July 8th 2001. Gallery Kunstflügel, Rangsdorf near Berlin (E)
  • 2001/02 "Preußisch" -Blau , Potsdam, Rheinsberg (G, K)
  • 2004 Galerie Himmelreich , Magdeburg (with Renate Brömme) (E)
  • 2005 Sculptures in the rock park , art association "Talstrasse", Halle (Saale) (G, K)
  • 2007 Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof: Sculpture work - Hannes H. Wagner: Painting and graphics. Personal exhibitions on the occasion of Hannes H. Wagner's 85th birthday. Gallery Dr. Stelzer and Zaglmaier, Halle (Saale) (E)
  • 2010/2011 The phenomenon of space: on the trail of Halle's sculptural tradition. Art Association "Talstrasse", Halle / Saale; Art forum Halle / Saale. (G, K)
  • 2012 Hannes H. Wagner: Painting and graphics and Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof: sculpture Personal exhibitions, Galerie Stelzer and Zaglmaier, Halle (Saale) (E), (P)
  • 2014 Hannes H. Wagner: graphics and Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof: plastic cabinet exhibition, Willi-Sitte-Galerie, Merseburg (E)
  • In 2014 I gave gold for iron , Münzkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, (G, K)
  • 2015 Anja Daniela Wagner -photography, Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof-Plastik , Galerie Zaglmaier, Halle (E)
  • 2016 Sculptures Medals Sculptures , Halle City Archive from Hallesches Kunstverein (E) (K)
  • 2016/17 Muse Macht Moneten , Münzkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, (G, K) and 2018 Speyer, Volksbank
  • 2018 Portraits of Clever Women , Humboldtuniverstät Berlin, Curator, (G, K)
  • 2018 Images of people , portraits from antiquity to the present, Münzkabinett, Bode-Museum Berlin, (G)

literature

  • Reality and a sculptor's drawing. Center for Art Exhibitions of the GDR, Galerie Rähnitzgasse - Dresden, January 10–15. February 1987. Ministry for Culture of the GDR; Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, Central Section Management Plastic. Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden 1987. Illustration on p. 95.
  • VIII Biennale internazionale dantesca di Ravenna: mostra internazionale del bronzetto e della piccola scultura. Centro dantesco del frati minori conventuali di Ravenna, Ravenna 1988. Catalog.
  • The contemporary art medal in Germany. German Society for Medal Art
    • Volume 1, 1992: The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany 1988–1991.
    • Volume 2, 1994: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The contemporary art medal in Germany 1991–1993. Pp. 132-135.
    • Volume 4, 1996: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland 1993–1995, with additions since 1988. ISBN 3-7861-1926-0 , pp. 48–51, pp. 168–171.
    • Volume 10, 1999: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The Art Medal in Germany 1995–1998. ISBN 3-7861-2329-2 , pp. 211-213.
    • Volume 17, 2002: Martin Heidemann, Wolfgang Steguweit (eds.): Thanks to the castle. Medal art in Halle in the 20th century. ISBN 3-7861-2462-0 , pp. 165-176, 194.
  • Jutta Strehle: Martin Luther 1983 - Luther interpretations in the visual arts of the former GDR. Documentation for an exhibition at the Lutherhalle Wittenberg. Lutherhalle, Wittenberg 1992.
  • Eva Wipplinger (catalog): Medalists in Germany: Creativity in the past and present; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle November 15, 1992 - March 21, 1993; Frauen Museum , Bonn April 18 - May 30, 1993. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 1992, ISBN 3-86105-066-8 , pp. 14–15, 129–132.
  • European medal art from the Renaissance to the present day. Science Center Bonn, September 28, 1995 - January 14, 1996; Gotha Castle Museum, February 24, 1996 - January 14, 1996; Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, June 24, 1996 - August 31, 1996. Wolfgang Steguweit. Münzkabinett, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88609-379-4 ; Gebr. Mann, Berlin, ISBN 3-7861-1911-2 , illustrations p. 399, 418, 428.
  • The medal and commemorative coin of the 20th century in Germany. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2387-X (Gebr. Mann), ISBN 3-88609-443-X (Münzkabinett). ( The art medal in Germany. Vol. 14). (Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Wolfgang Steguweit. In cooperation with the Gitta Kastner Foundation and the German Society for Medal Art).
  • Bagatelles , 1998 with 4 other artists in the Galerie Pankow, text by Constanze Albrecht
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists 2005 Saur-Verlag Munich, Leipzig, ISBN 3-598-24734-6 .
  • Hans-Georg Sehrt (Ed.): Figure and figurative things: contemporary Halle small sculptures. Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle 2005. ( Hallescher Kunstverein. 82). (For the exhibition of the Hallesches Kunstverein eV Figure and figurative objects in the Christian-Wolff-Haus, Stadtmuseum Halle from June 12th to July 24th, 2005. Concept, editing: Hans-Georg Sehrt).
  • The rock garden is a sculpture park. Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle / Saale 2005, ISBN 3-932962-24-9 . (Sculptures in the rock garden, art association “Talstrasse” eV, Halle (Saale), duration of the exhibition: June 5 to September 11, 2005. Editor: Matthias Rataiczyk ; Christin Wenzel).
  • Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock (editor): The world »in miniature«: German medal art today, 2000–2006. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2 , pp. 301-303. ( The Art Medal in Germany. Vol. 23) (On the occasion of the exhibition Die Welt "en Miniature". German Medal Art Today from July 15 to October 7, 2007 in the Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt).
  • The phenomenon of space: on the trail of Halle's sculptural tradition. Kunstforum Halle, Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-932962-55-4 .
  • Eds. Bernd Kluge and Bernhard Weisser : I gave gold for iron , In: Das Kabinett , number 14, series of publications by the Münzkabinett der Staatliche Museen Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88609-748-7 .
  • Bernhard Weisser: The medal edition 'Friedrich 300' In: H. Kahnt (Ed.): Münzen und Sammeln , March 2012, pp. 14-17, PDF on the website of the Numismatic Society in Berlin
  • Bernhard Weisser, Alexa Küter: Muse Macht Moneten Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Battenberg Verlag, Regenstauf 2016, ISBN 978-3-86646-137-6 .
  • Ulf Dräger (editor and introductory text): Sculptures, medals, sculptures , catalog for the solo exhibition of the Hallesches Kunstverein 2016
  • Anna Saunders Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after 1989 , 2018
  • Catalog for the exhibition Portraits KLUGEr WOMEN in Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Medal , Custody of Humboldt University and the German Society for Medal Art , Berlin 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof. German Society for Medal Art, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on November 13, 2014 .
  2. ^ Ulf Dräger: First German Medalist Prize. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt (NNB). Archived from the original on December 28, 2010 ; accessed on October 13, 2015 (edition 03/2006).
  3. ↑ Celebration medal: Stars for Halle. (No longer available online.) In: smb.museum. Ulf Dräger, March 7, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 14, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.smb.museum  
  4. ^ German medalist "Johann Veit Döll" 2006 for the anniversary medal "Stars for Halle". In: stadtmarketing-halle.de. Stadtmarketing Halle (Saale) GmbH, accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Hilde Broer Prize winners at www.laende.kressbronn.info (accessed on October 14, 2019)
  6. ↑ Images at BBK Brandenburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bbk-brandenburg.de  
  7. ^ Annette Kaminsky (ed.): Places of Remembrance: Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR. 2nd Edition. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-443-3 , p. 178 , preview Google books
  8. ^ Medal: Theodor Fontane , 1978, bronze, cast, diameter 94 mm, inv. No. Med 14924. In: Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Annual Report 2009. pp. 293–294, Fig. 76  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 8, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / forschung.gnm.de  
  9. ↑ Medal: Inferno Sarajevo , 1992, bronze, diameter 170 mm, BM Registration number: 2000,0873.1
  10. ↑ Medal: Breakthrough , 2001, bronze, diameter 84 mm, BM Registration number: 2005,0107.1
  11. ^ Medal: Sterne von Halle , 2001, silver, BM Registration number: 2006,1127.1
  12. ^ Medal: Charité in Berlin , 1985. Lothar Hölbling: Medals of Science: the collection of the archive of the University of Vienna. WUV-Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85114-342-6 , p. 164. , preview Google books
  13. ↑ Folded invitation card (PDF; 640 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Wagner-Kerkhof, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, medalist and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg , Lower Lusatia