Heinz Mamat

Heinz Mamat

Heinz Mamat (born March 30, 1930 in Tilsit ; † January 1, 2017 in Cottbus ) was a German sculptor and visual artist .

Career

Heinz Mamat in his studio in Cottbus around 1970

Mamat grew up as the youngest of six children in Tilsit. During the chaos of the war, he and his family moved to Bad Doberan , where he first trained as a baker in 1948/49. Subsequently, he made up his Abitur at the workers and farmers faculty in Greifswald , and then in 1952 at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden in the field of plastic with Walter Arnold (sculptor and chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR ) to begin artistic training. He graduated with a diploma in 1957 and has been working as a freelancer ever since. From 1962 he made his home in Cottbus, the main place of his artistic work. A summer studio was added later in Loitz .

Artistic creation

Plastic piggyback boys from Heinz Mamat in Cottbus

Heinz Mamat worked figuratively in a variety of ways. In addition to bronze, he mostly used wood, granite and concrete for his works. His works of art can mainly be found in the former Cottbus district , but also in Frankfurt (Oder) , Eisenhüttenstadt and Dresden. In his last years he mainly dealt with wood sculpting and carving and thus returned to his roots. He lived in seclusion until his death in the Cottbus district of Schmellwitz and was buried next to his wife Irene in the Cottbus Nordfriedhof ; he created the grave sculpture for himself and his wife.

Works (selection)

• The reading girl ( Dresden , Nürnberger Platz)
• The riders (Cottbus)
• City idyll (Cottbus, Park of the Carl Thiem Clinic )
• Grove of honor for the victims of fascism and militarism (1979, Cottbus, Puschkinpromenade )
• Relief (Cottbus, Spremberger Tower )
• The Seated Girl (1966, Hoyerswerda , Zeißig Children's Tree Park)
• Apple picker ( Frankfurt (Oder) , Lennépark behind Wollenweberstrasse 5)
• Falling ( Spremberg , Hero Memorial)
• Sorbian girls (1968, Lübben (Spreewald) , front garden of the Haus Burglehn inn )
• Lebensbaum, 1970, Adolph Diesterweg School in Trattendorf
• Ernst Thälmann Monument (Black Pump) (1979)

Prices

• Carl Blechen Prize, 2nd class (1979)

Web links

Commons : Heinz Mamat  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography on cb-stadtmagazin.de
• City of Cottbus pays tribute to the "father" of the stone zoo pony , press release on Cottbus.de from January 5, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Kasper: The girl takes a seat in Zeissig . A sculpture by Heinz Mamat now adorns the children's tree park. Ed .: Lausitzer Rundschau . Hoyerswerda August 27, 2013 ( lr-online.de [accessed April 27, 2017]).
2. ↑ Apple picker. Deutsche Fotothek, accessed on March 24, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Sorbian girls. Deutsche Fotothek, accessed on March 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Annett Igel- Allzeit in Lausitzer Rundschau Heinz Mamat's "Tree of Life" from January 3, 2019