Helmut Brinckmann

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Helmut Brinckmann (born March 10, 1912 in Rixdorf, today in Berlin-Neukölln , † September 23, 1994 in Darmstadt ) was a German sculptor .

Life

From 1928 to 1931 Brinckmann did an apprenticeship as a steel engraver , at the same time he attended the Berlin School of Applied Arts. In 1929 he had his first solo exhibition with sculptures in Berlin-Adlershof. From 1931 to 1937 he studied at the Academy in Berlin with Ludwig Gies , Alfred Vocke and Otto Hitzberger . His exhibitions with graphics, sculpture and reliefs were increasingly hindered by the authorities during the Nazi era. In 1939 he moved to Danzig in order to avoid an exhibition ban by the Reich Chamber of Culture. Brinckmann was seriously wounded while serving on the Eastern Front in 1943 and lost an eye when he was shot in the head. After being a prisoner of war, Brinckmann earned his living from 1945 as a wood sculptor in Oberammergau . In 1950 he moved to Darmstadt on the mediation of the Association of Patrons of the Artists' Colony.

As artistic advisor to the Hessian Interior Minister Dr. Heinrich Troeger and later the Hessian State Building Administration, Brinckmann campaigned heavily for local artists and art in construction between 1951 and 1974 . Brinckmann saw the key to the success of art in architecture in the field of tension between architects, politics, administrative officials and artists "actively and positively involving the administrations using them". In 1959 he married the painter Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling (1924–2014). In 1972, the city of Darmstadt awarded Brinckmann the Johann Heinrich Merck Honor in gratitude and in recognition of his services as managing director of the Hessian special building fund for the artistic design of state building projects.

Brinckmann was a member of the Frankfurt Secession and the German Association of Artists , and since 1963 a member of the new Darmstadt Secession .

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Big Seated Man (1955). Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium , Darmstadt
Coronation (1981). Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt

Brinckmann initially worked figuratively in wood and bronze. There was heated controversy in 1955 about his work Großer Sitzender at the new Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium building in Darmstadt. Since "a majority of the population" rejects this figure - mocked as "The Hockebleiber" - and Two Figures in Relationship II by Bernhard Heiliger , which appeared to be too abstract, the city council decided to remove them. First a call for a "warning to reason", which 45 personalities of the cultural and economic life of Darmstadt addressed to the population and which turned against defilement and denigration and spoke out for the freedom and the protection of art, as well as telegrams from the German Association of Artists and the The general student committee of the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin to the Darmstadt mayor prevented this. Among those who signed the appeal were personalities such as Ludwig Metzger , Minister for Education of the State of Hesse from 1951 to 1953, Ludwig Prince of Hesse and Otto Bartning , President of the Association of German Architects.

In 1959 the first plastic works were created. After a geometric and an informal phase in the 1960s, monumental biomorphic abstractions made of bronze and especially polyester resin were created from the 1970s. With an alternation of projections, openings and passages, they illustrate Brinckmann's view that "[in the sculpture] form and space are one and the same".

"Art is basically a banishment of the ephemeral into the vessels of form and spatial experience."

- Helmut Brinckmann

Brinckmann preferred an outdoor location for his sculptures. In the Bürgerpark Nord and on the green space at Darmstadt Central Station there are a number of works (some of which have since been severely damaged) that Brinckmann donated to the City of Darmstadt in 1980 with the condition that they be placed on green spaces - in dialogue with vegetation and sky.

Exhibitions (selection)

The exhibitions marked with an "E" were solo exhibitions; a catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with an "K".

  • 1955: Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Frankfurt am Main E
  • 1956: Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris (bronze medal)
  • 1957: steel sculptures . Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund E.
  • 1974: Helmut Brinckmann: sculptures 1960–1974 . Kunsthalle Darmstadt, October 12th to November 17th 1974, in cooperation with the Kunstverein Darmstadt eV E, K
  • 1977: Helmut Brinckmann: Outdoor sculptures . May 22 to July 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Am Löwentor 2. Organizer: Neue Darmstädter Sezession E, K

Sculptures in public space

literature

  • Helmut Brinckmann: The nature of the plastic . Art report 3/4 '77, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, 1977, p. 35
  • Helmut Brinckmann - Sculptures . Ed .: City of Darmstadt, 1981
  • Art in public space in Darmstadt 1641–1994 . Edited by Emmy Hoch and Erich Eck, Darmstadt 1994, 112, 184, 388.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Heinigk and Meike Heinigk: On the trail of building culture . P - Stadt Kultur Magazin Darmstadt, issue 50, December 2012 / January 2013
  2. ↑ Helmut Brinckmann - Sculptures . Ed .: City of Darmstadt, 1981, p. 74
  3. ↑ Helmut Brinckmann - Sculptures . Ed .: City of Darmstadt, 1981, p. 63
  4. ↑ a b Roland Held: Form for the Ephemeral ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Darmstädter Echo Online, March 9, 2012
  5. ↑ Anne Fingerling in: KulturMagazin, PRINTEC OFFSET Verlag M. Faste, Kassel, No. 244 October 2018 p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Brinckmann, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf, today in Berlin-Neukölln
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1994
Place of death Darmstadt