Heinz Beberniß

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Heinz Beberniß (born July 29, 1920 in Diemitz , today part of Halle (Saale) ; † May 14, 2012 ibid) was a German sculptor , painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

His father Heinrich Beberniß (1894–1985) worked as a teacher in the wall painting workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar and later at the castle . Heinz Beberniß studied from 1937 to 1939 at the "Burg" with Gustav Weidanz and Herbert Post . From 1947 he was a freelance artist in Halle (Saale). His work was funded from the 1960s onwards by orders from the Leunawerke . He is one of the founding members of the Halle Artists Association(VhK). 1958–1974 he was chairman of the sculptors section in the Halle / Saale district organization of the VBK of the GDR. Beberniß had exhibitions in the GDR, FRG, France, India, Poland, Romania and the USSR. Heinz Beberniß was in artistic partnership with Walter Opitz , Otto Nagel , Arno Mohr and Fritz Cremer . In the last years of his life he gave up his studio and devoted himself mainly to painting. His oil paintings, watercolors and pen drawings are largely unknown. This facet in Heinz Beberniss's work could be admired in Berlin. The artist was commissioned with the interior design of public buildings, hospitals, retirement homes and restaurants. The interior design of the former large Ahornblatt restaurant on Berlin's Fischerinsel (demolished), in today's Kursana senior citizens' homes, East Berlin, and in the GDR Foreign Ministry in Berlin-Mitte (demolished) was particularly outstanding .

The reader in Halle (Saale)

Beberniß created over 370 sculptures (as of 2001), including statuettes, large sculptures, steles and fountains. In Halle and Leuna alone there are over 20 of his works of art in public spaces. Shape and material vary greatly, ranging from large, semi-abstract structures (example: tulip fountain in Halle-Neustadt ) to stocky athletes (example: shot putter in Halle-Neustadt ) to delicate female figures (example: the reader on the Ziegelwiese in Halle).

Fists on the Riebeckplatz in Halle (Saale)

The fists were torn off in July 2003 on Riebeckplatz in Halle (Saale) after months of dispute over the manner. The first application for this is from 1997. The main point of criticism at the time was that they would appear threatening. The plastic Uzbek girl was stolen in 1995 , which was located at Am Gastronom in Halle-Neustadt and in 1992 teachers and students in Teutschenthal . The group of figures Völkerfreundschaft in Halle-Neustadt fell victim to vandalism, and one of their heads was cut off in 1997. The reader has already been dismantled several times in Halle (Saale) (most recently emergency rescue after attempted theft in July 2007), but it was put back up in 2009. The artwork Student Couple was created in 1987 as a commission from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , but then forgotten and only handed over in 2007. Also in 2009 it did not find a site. There is a similar process in Thale , where the Beberniß sculpture The Reader was supposed to be placed in front of the library, but then ended up in a school yard. Its implementation was discussed but not implemented. There is also a curious story about the Ernst Thälmann memorial in Dessau: For fear of damage, the bust was saved and only erected on the birthday of the KPD politician. The three relief panels Beberniß 'in the Leuna district of Kröllwitz and the soldier of the National People's Army in the plastic park in Leuna were also removed (stored) .

Awards

In 1960 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

Works (selection)

  • Working miner on Querfurter Strasse in Lutherstadt Eisleben, 1950
  • Carpenter on Frankfurter Allee in Berlin, 1954–1955
  • Animal sculpture group Geiseltalbrunnen in Merseburg-Süd, 1956
  • Crane group in Eisenhüttenstadt, 1958
  • Boy with foal in Hohen Weg in Halle-Kröllwitz, 1959
  • Ernst Thälmann bust in Gropiusallee in Dessau, 1960s
  • Chemical workers in the park with sculptures in Leuna, 1960
  • Soldier of the National People's Army in the park with sculptures in Leuna, 1960
  • Reading girl today in the park in front of the main gate of the Leunawerke in Leuna and on the Ziegelwiese in Halle as well as on the iga site in Erfurt, 1961
  • Student (reader) in the school yard of the grammar school in Thale, 1961
  • Locksmith Christine today in the park in front of the main gate of the Leunawerke in Leuna, 1963
  • Girls from Samarkand with bread in Chemnitz, 1964
  • Professor with student on Ludwig-Wucherer-Strasse in Halle (Saale), 1964
  • Reclining female nude in front of the medical center in Sangerhausen, 1965
  • Girl with a flower in the park in front of the main gate of the Leunawerke in Leuna, 1966
  • Friendship of Nations Ernst-Barlach-Ring in Halle-Neustadt 1967 & 1972
  • Monument of the revolutionary workers' movement ("fists"; with Gerd Lichtenfeld and Sigbert Fliegel) on Riebeckplatz in Halle (Saale), 1970
  • Bust of Gottfried August Bürger in front of his birthplace in Molmerswende, 1971–1972
  • Carl Schorlemmer monument at the Merseburg University of Technology 1971–1972
  • Portrait of the Bunsen Technical University of Merseburg 1971
  • Shot put on Nietlebener Strasse in Halle-Neustadt in 1972 & 1982
  • Leisure stele on the south promenade in the southern part of Halle (Saale) and in Hettstedt 1972–1973
  • Doctors' fountain in front of the medical center in Leuna 1974–1978
  • Ikarus in the Südpark in the southern part of Halle (Saale), 1977–1978
  • Tulip fountain in Halle-Neustadt, 1978
  • Stele town history Sondershausen , 1989
  • Monument Destruction-Liberation-Reconstruction of the city of Dessau in Dessauer Heidestrasse, 1988
  • Complainant at the Gertraudenfriedhof in Halle (Saale)

  • Shot putter in Halle-Neustadt (1982)

  • Chemical workers in Leuna

  • Leisure stele in Halle (Saale)

  • The tulip fountain in Halle-Neustadt

Further works can be found in Halle (at least five more), Leuna (at least three more), Merseburg, Leuna-Kröllwitz, Suderode (2), Oberhof, Dessau (2), Gernrode (2, including the plastic Junge Familie ) , Nordhausen (2), Schwerin-Lankow, Bad Dürrenberg, Thale, Zeitz, Quedlinburg, Beesenstedt, Teutschenthal, Greifswald, Leipzig and Berlin (2).

In addition, numerous works in the non-public area or in museums.

Web links

Commons : Heinz Beberniß  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Allmuth Schuttwolf: Hallesche Plastik im 20. Jahrhundert (Diss.), Halle (Saale) 1981.
  • Christel Gerhardt / Andreas Kahl: Art in Public Space. Halle-Neustadt district, Halle (Saale) 2001.
  • Josef Münzberg / Gerhard Richter / Peter Findeisen : Architecture Guide GDR. Halle district, Berlin 1977.
  • Sour. General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples, vol. 8 (Bayonne-Benech), Munich / Leipzig 1994.
  • Leaflet Heinz Beberniß. Sculptor , without a year.
  • The sculptor who remained loyal to the city on the Saale celebrated his 75th birthday . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 31, 1995
  • Where baroque breasts tempt you to caress . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, October 23, 1999 (report on the occasion of an exhibition in Merseburg )
  • Between shredder and rescue . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 22, 2003 (detailed information on the fists in Halle (Saale))

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Big Brother supports the Ikarus GDR . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , January 4, 2001
  2. ↑ I like my exhibition . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 8, 2005
  3. ↑ There is no permission to tear off fists . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, November 20, 2002
  4. ↑ Dusty finale in a fist fight . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 25, 2003
  5. ↑ "Fists" should disappear . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 19, 1997
  6. ↑ Plastic disappeared without a trace . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 14, 1995
  7. ↑ Bronze sculpture disappeared several times . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 15, 1995
  8. ↑ Hans and Erika were headless . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 10, 1997
  9. ↑ Parking lot for stone art . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 7, 2003
  10. ^ Sawed off sculptures in the park in Halle . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 16, 2007
  11. ↑ "Father and Son" back on the Ziegelwiese . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, November 28, 2009
  12. ↑ Children of longing have returned home . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 1, 2007
  13. ^ A dispute in Thale about a bronze man . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 3, 2005
  14. ↑ The "bookworm" should stay in the cage . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, May 5, 2005
  15. ↑ a b Thälmann's head firmly screwed . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 18, 1997
  16. ↑ a b Internet site on the history of the city of Dessau ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dessau-geschichte.de
  17. ↑ The memorial stone is placed in its former location . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, October 17, 1995
  18. ↑ Dusty finale in a fist fight . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 25, 2003 (report on the demolition of the monument on July 24, 2003)
personal data
SURNAME Beberniß, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Diemitz , today part of Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2012
Place of death Halle (Saale)