Heinrich Drake (sculptor)

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Heinrich Drake 1969
Heinrich Drake (right) at the 1954 national award ceremony.
Memorial plaque on the house, Hochlandstrasse 13, in Berlin-Rahnsdorf
Goethe with Ulrike von Levetzow on the Marienbad Goethe hiking trail not far from the forest spring
Grave of Heinrich Drake in the Pankow III cemetery

Heinrich Drake (born February 15, 1903 in Ratsiek / Lippe-Detmold , † July 26, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After a broken carpenter's apprenticeship, Drake completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker from 1918 to 1921 and worked in the profession until 1923. From 1924 to 1927 he learned the wood carving trade in Detmold, then from 1927 to 1929 he studied with Karl Albiker at the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden , after which he worked as a freelance artist until 1940 and studied with Georg Kolbe at the same time. In 1940 he received a Rome scholarship from the Prussian Academy of Arts , which was followed by a stay in Florence . From 1942 to 1945 he was conscripted for military service in Berlin.

After the war he worked as a drawing teacher at the Lilienthal High School in Berlin-Lichterfelde and was a founding member of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 1946 , where he worked as professor and head of the plastics department until his retirement in 1969. In 1954 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR and in the same year he was appointed a member of the German Academy of the Arts .

From 1958 to 1961 he was secretary of the visual arts section of the German Academy of the Arts . In the 1950s and 1960s, Drake made educational trips to China , Vietnam and Georgia . Since 1975 he has been a member of the sculpture section in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

A plaque commemorates him at his former place of residence, Berlin-Rahnsdorf , Hochlandstraße 13.

He found his final resting place in the Pankow III cemetery .

Awards

Works

Drake's early work included portraits in large and coarse expressive forms (Fritz Cremer, woman portrait) and from 1934 he created filigree nudes and animal sculptures. After 1945 he dealt with large sculptures (Karl Marx bust) in order to create versatile designs from the 1950s onwards. The Landesverband Lippe shows some of his works together with works by the sculptor Karl Ehlers in a permanent exhibition in Brake Castle .

  • Zebra , silver, Detmold Landesmuseum, 1929/30
  • Fritz Cremer , bronze bust, 1930
  • Woman portrait , bronze, 1931
  • Youth , bronze, in the National Gallery Berlin, 1936
  • Panther , bronze, Altenburg, State Lindenau Museum, 1936
  • Jaguar , bronze, Bernau, Waldsiedlung sculpture collection, 1938
  • Pony and highland bull in Warnemünde (the figures created in 1938 were erected in 1961)
  • Young woman , bronze, Berlin
  • Karl Marx bust , granite, Berlin, 1954
  • Prof. Wuken-ming , bronze, 1956
  • Panther cat granite , 1953, Berlin
  • Jaguar , bronze sculpture, 1960, Altenburg Castle Park
  • Zille monument in Berlin ( Köllnischer Park , at the Märkisches Museum ), 1964–65
  • Goethe with Ulrike von Levetzow on the Marienbader Goethewanderweg, 1967, VEB Lauchhammer
  • State President Heinrich Drake , bronze bust in Detmold, 1971
  • Reflection , bronze sculpture, 1976–77
  • Albert Einstein , bronze bust, 1981
  • Standing boy , bronze statue, 1982–83
  • Hans-Jürgen Treder , bronze statuette, 1987
  • Foal group , bronze statue in Tierpark Berlin , 1956
  • Highland bull , bronze statue in Tierpark Berlin , 1956

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Drake  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member database of the Akademie der Künste , accessed on January 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Art space downtown - sculpture collection of the Bernau forest settlement", accessed on December 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Drake, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratsiek
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1994
Place of death Berlin