Heinrich Brummack

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Heinrich Brummack (born January 19, 1936 in Treuhofen ; † February 21, 2018 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German sculptor and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Brummack was born in Treuhofen in the Weststernberg district. He completed his training as a chaser in Iserlohn . At the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin he studied sculpture with Hans Uhlmann and Paul Dierkes from 1956 to 1964 and in 1959 and 1960 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris with Ossip Zadkine .

In 1966 he received the Villa Massimo Prize in Rome and in 1969 the Villa Romana Prize in Florence. He took part in documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987 with the sculpture A sculpture marries . Since 1982 Brummack has been teaching sculptural design in the design department of the Münster University of Applied Sciences . He lived and worked in Westerkappeln until 2011 and in Schwäbisch Hall since 2011 .

Brummack exhibited his work in a variety of solo exhibitions.

Factory overview (selection)

Works in public space

Brummack's works in public space include:

  • the sculpture Krummstab , which is located on the Wittgenstein-Sauerland Forest Sculpture Trail .
  • For the artist necropolis in the Harleshausen district of Kassel, he created a granite grave monument that also serves as a bird bath. The artists represented there, all of whom were documenta participants, undertook during their lifetime to be buried in the necropolis.
  • In Kassel the market fountain is on Wehlheider-Platz. In the sculpture park Im Tal in the Westerwald is the double sculpture Place of Harmony from 1986/1987.
  • Brummack took part in the first pan-German sculpture project in Gotha with the plastic Hasenpforte , which was built in 1992 in the courtyard of Friedenstein Castle and is now in a green area in downtown Gotha.
  • In Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Brummack's sculpture (Angelnder) Stadt-Hase (1999) made of sandstone and painted metal was placed on a double-T industrial iron girder on the hare . There are more of his works in public space in the city. In his home town of Westerkappeln near Osnabrück there is a fountain with a rabbit and flowers in the center of the village .
  • In Berlin are among other works
  • The Birthday table is in Osaka (Japan) and the Golden Stone of Nykosia in Nicosia in Cyprus.


Examples of pictures from Brummack's works

Works in collections

Brummack's work is represented in private and public collections as well as in museums. These include works in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, in the Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum , in the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg, in the Neue Galerie in Kassel, in the private Würth Museum in Künzelsau or in the Katsumi Kawamura Museum in Tokyo (Japan).

literature

  • Carmen Sylvia Weber (Ed.): Heinrich Brummack - Sculptures . Künselsau 2001, ISBN 3-934350-34-8 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Brummack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Heinrich Brummack is dead , accessed on March 7, 2018
  2. ^ Museums of the City of Gotha (Ed.): Sculpture Project Gotha . Gotha 1992, ISBN 3-923576-36-6 , pp. 120-123 .
personal data
SURNAME Brummack, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Treuhofen
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2018
Place of death Schwäbisch Hall