Helmut Langhammer

Helmut Langhammer (* 1940 in Nieder Ullersdorf ) is a German sculptor , object and installation artist .

Life

"Walkable Cube" (1978)
(Campus of the University of Regensburg )

One of the two “Via Carolina” sculptures at the Waidhaus border crossing (German side).

After completing an apprenticeship as a craftsman from 1954 to 1957, Langhammer studied sculpture at the master school for wood sculptors in Stuttgart with Ernst Rülke and at the Cologne factory school with Joseph Jaekel . Since 1964 he has been working in his studio in Pressath . His wife Ruthild , with whom he also exhibits, also comes from the Sudetenland and is a painter . He went three times to study in the West African part of the Sahara .

Langhammer made many public and church sculptures, large-scale sculptures and ensembles. Many of them can be seen as art in buildings or in public spaces . For example, in 1978 he produced the granite walk-in cube for the campus of the University of Regensburg . The four meter high bridge sculpture on the Naab Bridge near Etterzhausen on the state road to Kallmünz was made by him in 1978. In 2004 he designed and manufactured the limestone celebration altar , the ambo, the tabernacle and the sedile, as well as a restrained iron grating for the Sailer Chapel of Regensburg Cathedral . For the Waidhaus border crossing on the BAB 6 / D 5 as part of Europastraße 50 , which bears this name as part of Goldenen Straße , he made the “Via Carolina” sculptures on both sides of the border. For example, he also took on the artistic design of the Nardini worship chapel of the Mallersdorf monastery . As part of the renovation and renovation work of the parish church of St. Peter in Wenzenbach under the Brückner & Brückner Architects office , he was responsible for the sculptural work. One of the three steles in Weiden's Max-Reger-Park comes from him. At the 1st Art Summit with objects, sound worlds and light installations in the “GeoPark Kaolinrevier Hirschau-Schnaittenbach” ( Monte Kaolino ), Langhammer was involved in 2000 with his installation “Traces let wings grow or the flight of Icarus”, in which he used black plastic foils 120 meter long staircase on the mountain flank. Even during the Pope's visit to Benedict XVI. in Regensburg in 2006 he took over the artistic design of the tent construction on the altar island on the Islinger Feld . In 2011 he designed the new grave complex for Windberg Abbey .

Many of his sculptures are in public collections. His works have been shown regularly in exhibitions. For example, in 1972 he was the German representative at the international artist symposium “Living Arts” in Johannesburg , South Africa. Since 1999, his works have been on view regularly at the Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition (GOK) of the BBK Niederbayern / Oberpfalz , where he is a member. His sculpture “Station” (1997) made of granite, steel and hemp was presented by the Regensburg Diocese Museum in March 2013 as “Work of the Month”. Langhammer is also a member of the Oberpfälzer Kunstverein (OKV).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1989: Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria , Hammerschloss Theuern
• 1995: Dostlerhaus, Pressath
• 2000: Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus , Schwandorf
• 2007: "Shadows and Storm Clouds", Wieskapelle , Speinshart (presented by the Speinshart section of the Eschenbach Heimatverein )
• 2012: "The spirit blows where it wants", E.ON network center, Weiden in the Upper Palatinate

Awards

• 1978: Kulturförderpreis Ostbayern, OBAG
• 1995: Culture Prize East Bavaria , OBAG
• 2014: Nordgaupreis of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund in the category " Visual Arts "

literature

• Heike A. Hammer: Life and work of the Upper Palatinate sculptor Helmut Langhammer. 1992
• Oberpfälzer Kunstverein Weiden e. V. (Hrsg.): Art from here: Artists from the Upper Palatinate. Buch & Kunst Verlag Oberpfalz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935719-80-3 .
• Langhammer, Helmut . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 212-213, 260-261, 286-287 .

Others

A portrait sketch of Langhammer by the draftsman Willy Lütcke from 1975 is in the possession of the Museum Haus Hansestadt Danzig in Lübeck .

Web links

Commons : Helmut Langhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Helmut Langhammer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exhibition by Ruthild Langhammer . In: 2011 at a glance. Speinshart Monastery , p. 9.
2. ↑ Location Naabbrücke in the direction of Penk (left) ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Etterzhausen.  
3. ^ The Regensburg Cathedral - a Gothic building: The Sailer Chapel , diocese of Regensburg.
4. ↑ Two works of art on the motorway bridge ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Waidhaus market.
5. ^ Nardini worship chapel , Mallersdorf Abbey.
6. ↑ Church expansion of St. Peter in Wenzenbach , BauNetz Wissen.
7. ^ Art to the power of three , OberpfalzNetz.de, 23 August 2006.
8. ↑ KunstGipfel , GeoPark Kaolinrevier, 2010.
9. ↑ Uli Piehler: Regensburg is pitching the papal tent ( memento of the original from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , OberpfalzNetz.de, August 19, 2006.
10. ↑ Annual Chronicle 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ', Windberg Abbey, 2011.  
11. ^ Helmut Langhammer , BBK Niederbayern / Upper Palatinate.
12. ^ Artwork of the month - March 2013 , Diocese museums Regensburg.
13. ↑ Honestly and with the smell of fresh paint  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , OberpfalzNetz.de, May 22, 2012.
14. ↑ Shadows and storm clouds , OberpfalzNetz.de, June 28, 2007.
15. ↑ Nadja Sporrer: Sculptures invite you to feel and look at , Oberpfalznetz.de, March 14, 2012.
16. ^ Heike A. Hammer: Life and work of the Upper Palatinate sculptor Helmut Langhammer , 1992.
17. ↑ Art from here ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Buch & Kunst Verlag Oberpfalz.  
18. ↑ The sculptor Helmut Langhammer