Heinrich Kirchner

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Heinrich Kirchner (born May 12, 1902 in Erlangen , † March 3, 1984 in Pavolding, Seeon-Seebruck parish , in Chiemgau ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Heinrich Kirchner was born as the second son in a carpentry workshop in Erlangen. He was supposed to take over this carpentry with his older brother and refused, ultimately successful. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Hermann Hahn , whose master class he became in 1928 with Fritz Wrampe, who was 10 years his senior . They shared a studio.

In the meantime he attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and especially the Académie Julian in Paris . The technique of bronze casting in the lost wax process, an age-old technique that had largely been forgotten, at least in its direct manual processes, he acquired autodidactically .

In 1931 he went on a study trip to Italy with Wrampe and the painter Max Schöfer (1895–1966) . After Wrampes death he took care of the administration of his artistic estate.

In 1932 Kirchner became head of the bronze casting workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1952 he got a professorship at the Munich Academy.

Heinrich Kirchner's grave

In 1959 Heinrich Kirchner was a participant in the documenta II in Kassel . After his retirement in 1970, he and his long-time assistant Katharina Klampfleuthner-Kirchner, whom he married after the death of his first wife Margarethe in 1975, moved to Pavolding, where he had built an old farm, the so-called "Fischerhof" of the Seeon monastery . He died on March 3, 1984 and was buried on Frauenchiemsee .

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He became known for his highly simplified human and animal sculptures made of bronze. During the time of National Socialism , he initially had success. He was commissioned to cast the 3.5 m eagle for the new Frankfurt airport, a great honor and task for a young artist. Nevertheless, he never joined the National Socialist movement and never became a party member.

He became known as a Christian artist, especially through his works from the post-war period. In honor of Kirchner, the city of Erlangen set up a sculpture park in the Burgberggarten under Lord Mayor D. Hahlweg . He helped design it and inaugurated it on his 80th birthday in 1982. The municipality of Seeon-Seebruck, under Mayor Glück, bought several large sculptures and set up its own museum in Seebruck.

Heinrich Kirchner was a member of the German Association of Artists and from 1956 a member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin . The "Heinrich Kirchner School" in Erlangen and the local "Heinrich Kirchner Strasse" in the Büchenbach district are named after him.

see also: Städtische Galerie Erlangen

Publicly owned works (selection)

“Prometheus” in the Burgberggarten in Erlangen

Museums

Public room

- The New Adam , Prien am Chiemsee
Part of a sculpture group in Pavolding in June 2009
The 7th Day of Creation , 1963, bronze; Saling garden, Rosenheim
  • Greifenberg / Ammersee (church)
  • Erding (rectory)
  • Munich (Anton-Fingerle-Zentrum, Archbishop's Ordinariate, St. Johann von Capistran , Cosimapark )
  • Rosenheim, Salingarten
  • St. Ottilien (monastery complex)
  • Traunstein (retirement home)
  • Trostberg (hospital)
  • Ensdorf , Saarland , Marian pilgrimage site on the Hasenberg, upper chapel, sculpture "Mother-Queen shows Jesus the Christ" (1955) and lower chapel, sculpture "Pietà" (1956)
  • Erlangen (sculpture garden on Burgberg )
  • Büchenbach (schools, church)
  • kassel
  • Rattenbach (Lower Bavaria)
  • regensburg
  • Rohrbach (Lower Bavaria)
  • Prien am Chiemsee (pedestrian zone)
  • Seeon / Essbaum (roundabout)
  • Seebruck (Chiemsee Cycle Path)

Awards

literature

  • Kirchner, Heinrich . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 90, 92-93, 124, 196 .
  • Kirchner, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 50-51 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of newly identified sculptures  ( 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. - For the exhibition “The Berlin Sculpture Find. 'Degenerate Art' in the Bomb Rubble ”. Press release of March 18, 2012. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, accessed on October 21, 2013. p. 4f. (PDF, 74 kB.)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.smb.museum  
  2. ↑ Claudia Emmert : "Signs of Life." Heinrich Kirchner - Sculptures. Exhibition guide. Städtische Galerie Erlangen , 2009. p. 3. Online ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 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. (PDF, 489 kB.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staedtische-galerie-erlangen.de
  3. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria. Munich 2000. p. 19.
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Kirchner, Heinrich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 9, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ↑ a b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Kirchner, Heinrich, p. 226 f .
  6. ↑ http://institut-aktuelle-kunst.de/kunstlexikon/ensdorf-saar-marienwallfahrtsstaette-hasenberg-25733 , accessed on October 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1984
Place of death Pavolding, Gde. Seeon-Seebruck , Chiemgau