Helmut Güldner

Helmut Eugen Güldner (born January 13, 1923 in Remscheid , † April 15, 1977 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Helmut Güldner was a student and son-in-law of Bruno Eyermann . In 1941 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in 1942 into military service. After the end of the Second World War he lived in Bad Berka and from 1955 in Leipzig , where he worked as an artist together with his father-in-law. In 1959 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and took up residence there in Hanau .

Helmut Güldner especially produced portrait medals of pronounced plasticity.

Works (selection)

Medals

• undated: Ludwig Richter , painter, bronze casting without year, 83 mm (private collection)
• 1953: Assumption of the Virgin Mary, seal-shaped plaque, model cast of a bell decoration ( Grassi Museum for Applied Arts )
• 1954: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 225th birthday
• 1954: Medal for the Heinrich Schütz Festival in Dresden
• 1955: Georg Agricola
• 1955: Hans Christian Andersen
• 1955: Adalbert Stifter
• 1955: Thomas Mann , bronze, ( State Coin Cabinet Saxony-Anhalt )
• 1956: Bertolt Brecht
• 1956: Heinrich Schütz
• 1956: Rembrandt van Rijn
• 1957: Joseph von Eichendorff
• 1957: Johann Gutenberg
• 1958: Friedrich Beyer, bronze
• 1958: Richard Wagner
• 1962: Wilhelm Jesse , bronze ( State Coin Collection Munich )

exhibition

• 1959: Halle (Saale) : State Gallery Moritzburg (with Bruno Eyermann)

literature

• Andrea Knopik: Güldner, Helmut Eugen . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 64, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23031-8 , p. 360.