Hellmut Ehrath

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Figure group , 2002, Sindelfingen

Hellmut Ehrath (born August 16, 1938 in Oberndorf am Neckar , † September 13, 2008 in Herrenberg ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .

biography

From 1955, after completing an apprenticeship, Hellmut Ehrath made his first professional experience as a graphic artist. From 1958 to 1962 he studied free graphics and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Rolf Daudert and Manfred Henninger . After that he traveled mainly to several countries in the Middle East and Sudan . From 1962 to 1978 he was a draftsman and illustrator of medical cartoons and advertising films . From 1978 he worked as a freelance graphic artist and draftsman for various specialist book publishers and medical companies.

After training as a welder from 1977 to 1978, large objects were made from scrap metal and telephone books in his own workshop . Ehrath created watercolors , paintings and drawings with graphite , pen or brush . After successfully participating in competitions on art in buildings , numerous works of art were created in public spaces . The earlier works of art in architecture were still abstract, but from around 1990 the influence of the trips that Ehrath had made to many Far Eastern countries, to Nepal , India and Africa became apparent . In sculptures, objects, pictures, drawings and calligraphy , he developed his own language of form between representationalism and abstraction.

Sculptures in public space (selection)

  • 1983: Theorem of Pythagoras , Sindelfingen
  • 1985: Archimedes , Sindelfingen
  • 1987: Imbus "Rotatus" , Sindelfingen
  • 1989: Obelisk and stele , Herrenberg-giltstein
  • 1990: Walkmen , figures on the market square, Vaihingen an der Enz
  • 1990: Sodium Chloride , Böblingen
  • 1994: Dreifuss , Herrenberg
  • 1994: Seilschaften , Tamm
  • 1995: Anatomical table , Rottenburg am Neckar
  • 1997: dowser , Ammerbuch -Poltringen
  • 1998: Blue chair , Herrenberg
  • 2000: Pendulum impact , Herrenberg - (joint work with Peter Lenk )
  • 2004: All directions , Gärtringen
  • 2009: Erich Kiefer memorial in Gärtringen
  • 2012: Calligraphic sculpture , Herrenberg

Photos (selection)

  • Pythagorean Theorem , 1983

  • Obelisk (detail), 1989

  • Tripod , 1994

  • Dowser , 1997

  • Sodium chloride , 1998

  • Blue chair , 1998

  • Pendulum impact (detail), 2000

  • Callic sculpture , 2002

  • All directions , 2004

Awards

Exhibitions

  • Between 1960 and 2008 Hellmut Ehrath had numerous solo exhibitions in Germany. At the same time he took part in group exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy and Austria.
  • In 2010 a retrospective took place in the "Kulturzentrum Zehntscheuer Rottenburg".

literature

  • Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present , Hatje Stuttgart, 1982, ISBN 3-7757-0175-3
  • Press office of the district of Böblingen (ed.): Art in the district of Böblingen , 1993, pages 51, 52 and 176
  • Gerd Leibrock, Karin Mader: Art in a circle, BW . Volume 2, Edition 2, Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2010 ISBN 978-3-83913-883-0 , page 12
  • Doris Ehrath (Ed.): Drawings, Objects, Art in Architecture - A Retrospective , Herrenberg, 2010

Web links

Commons : Hellmut Ehrath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German National Library: Hellmut Ehrath - book illustrations
  2. ↑ Doris Ehrath (Ed.): Drawings, Objects, Art in Architecture - A Retrospective, Herrenberg, 2010, p. 218
  3. ↑ Doris Ehrath (Ed.): Drawings, Objects, Art in Architecture - A Retrospective, Herrenberg, 2010, p. 53 and p. 56
  4. ↑ Hellmut Ehrath retrospective (PDF; 698 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Ehrath, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberndorf am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2008
Place of death Herrenberg