Heinz Spilker

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Memorial plaque, Bismarckallee 23, Berlin-Grunewald

Heinz Spilker (born November 25, 1927 in Elverdissen near Herford ) is a German sculptor of classical modernism . One focus of his work is the realistic design of portraits and sculptures for public spaces. In the tradition of the animalier of France , he created a cycle of animal sculptures in Berlin . Among other things, he was a master student of the sculptor Renée Sintenis at the Berlin University of Fine Arts .

Live and act

Heinz Spilker was born as the eldest of three brothers in a farming family. After school he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter , which he completed in 1944 with the journeyman's examination. After the end of the war in 1945 he worked in the profession he had learned. The turning point in his life came in 1950 on his first major cultural trip to Rome and Florence with the decision to become a sculptor.

In 1951 he began studying at the master school for handicrafts in Bielefeld in the sculpting class of Arnold Rickert. There he received, according to his own statements, "an excellent technical and artistic training". In 1953, after four semesters, Spilker moved to the "Hochschule für Bildende Künste" in Berlin-Charlottenburg. There he became a master student of Renée Sintenis in the first semester, where he began to deal with the representation of animals in art.

As a gifted scholarship holder, he continued studying with Paul Dierkes until 1958. Finally, he supplemented his knowledge with practical training in a stonemasonry . The painter and sculptor Wilhelm Tank was one of his teachers .

Works

Portrait busts

In his portrait busts, Spilker mainly captured personalities from politics, culture, economy and society in Berlin after the war .

This includes the following selection of busts that can be found in public institutions such as museums, in public places and in private collections.

Memorial plaques and plaques

With the design of reliefs and plaques in public spaces, Spilker has contributed to the “culture of remembrance” in Berlin. The following works come from him, among others:

Public room

  • “Memorial for the victims of the wars” in Everdissen, Schweicheln-Bermbeck and in the church in Staaken-Gartenstadt
  • The "Hanse-Brunnen", fountain in Herford
  • “Barbarossaplatz fountain” and “Westkorso”, Berlin-Schöneberg
  • Horse sculpture, Neumünster

Further works can be found in the collections: Deutsche Oper Berlin , Senate of Berlin, Berlin Museum, Reichstag building , Schöneberg Town Hall, Reinickendorf Town Hall, Leipzig University , Museum of European Art (NRW) and others

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1952: first solo exhibition, Herford
  • 1965: Senate Gallery Berlin
  • 1966: House on Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1970: Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin
  • 1977: Gerhard Marcks and the German animal sculpture , Bremen
  • 1977: Daniel Pöppelmann House , Herford
  • 1985: Animalia animal sculptures of the XX. Century, Münster
  • 1985: Berlin heads - 100 years of portrait sculpting, Georg Kolbe Museum , Charlottenburg
  • 1988: Sculptor of our time , Art Museum Schloss Nörvenich (NRW) b / Cologne.
  • 2014: Drawings - body portraits , Museum European Art , Nörvenich NRW

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinz Spilker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art Archive EKS, http://www.europaeische-kultur-stiftung.org
  2. ^ Illustrated book The sculptor Heinz Spilker , 1997, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Spilker, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor of classical modernism
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Elverdissen