Helmut Lederer

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Helmut Lederer (born August 8, 1919 in Eger , Czechoslovakia , † February 11, 1999 in Erlangen ) was a German photographer and sculptor who lived in Erlangen from 1947 until his death after fleeing from the western Sudetenland, where he worked as a freelance artist and from 1965 to 1995 worked as the designer of the city magazine Das neue Erlangen .

Life

Helmut Lederer was born in 1919 as one of four children - he had two older brothers and a younger sister - of the administrative director of the city hospital in Eger. When he graduated from high school in 1937, due to his long-standing interest in photography, drawing and modeling, a university art education was mapped out. At the age of 16 he suffered a skull injury while ice skating, which is why he was spared a call-up for health reasons when the war broke out.

He broke off his training as a film photographer, which began in 1937 at the Technical University of Prague and in the Barrandov Studios , a year later because of the Sudeten crisis and instead studied sculpture in Vienna from 1939 to 1944 . During this period, he also studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and Rome . After completing his studies, he returned to Eger at the end of 1944, where he witnessed the American occupation (until the Potsdam Agreement) and the organized expulsion of the Sudeten Germans that followed . The Lederer family escaped deportation in 1945 by fleeing to Waldsassen in the Upper Palatinate . After a year of work there, Helmut Lederer followed his family to Erlangen in 1946, where he moved into his first temporary backyard studio in 1947 on the site of today's children's clinic. From 1957 he had a self-designed studio attached to his end-of-terrace house at Leimberger Straße 61 north of the Buckenhofer Forest in the far east of Erlangen.

As a self-taught art photographer , he published illustrated books about the sculptors Marino Marini and Henri Laurens as well as Mexico; To his adopted Franconian home, he dedicated the series of images, which can be assigned to the genre of subjective photography and which were published in the city magazine Das neue Erlangen (1965–1995), Fachwerke (thematized the decay of the framework in Franconia), Death in Franconia (motifs from Jewish cemeteries, among others) (1972–1981) , Cherry Gardens ( 1975) and Gray Gardens (1977). From the mid-1980s he gave up photography entirely and limited himself to working as a freelance sculptor, graphic artist and painter. Since the 1960s he had received numerous commissions from the up-and-coming industry in Erlangen and had earned a good reputation as an industrial designer and commercial graphic artist.

The majority of his sculptural works made of plaster of paris and bronze consist of abstract female nudes reduced to curves and spherical elements. Numerous sculptures by him still decorate the public space in Erlangen today.

In 2012, the Helmut-Lederer-Straße near the Westbad in the suburb of Erlangen was named after him.

Exhibitions

  • 1951: Winter, 1948 ( black and white photography ) in the exhibition subjective photography in Saarbrücken
  • 1994: Forms, female in the Erlangen Municipal Gallery
  • 2001: Fundus Lederer (curator: Jürgen Sandweg) at the Kunstmuseum Erlangen
  • 2004: Helmut Lederer. The photographic work 1937–1981 (curator: Simone Förster) first in the Munich Photo Museum and then in the Erlangen Art Museum
  • 2005: atelier lederer (curator: Gertraud Lehmann) at the Kunstmuseum Erlangen

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Mural (1956, Gebbertstraße 123, Erlangen; four meters wide mural made using a spatula technique with the bodies of 4 young people on a blue background)
  • The four cranes (1962, Liegnitzer Straße Erlangen; four bronze cranes in the school yard of the Poeschke school)
  • First steps (1963, Jamin- / Hans-Geiger-Straße Erlangen; bronze sculpture of a woman with her child)
  • Organ pipe composition (1976, Dompfaffstraße 111, Erlangen; 13 iron pipes)
  • Bowl fountain (1977, Kaiserstraße Nuremberg; 60 copper bowls and 7 bronze balls)
  • Mater (1988, Hauptstrasse 72, Erlangen; abstract female sculpture made of bronze, violently removed from the granite plinth by non-ferrous metal thieves in 2009)
  • Queen III (1992, Rathausplatz Erlangen; bronze, polished)

literature

  • Eduard Trier, Helmut Lederer: Marino Marini: Plastic. Niggli , 1961. (145 pages)
  • Marino Marini, Helmut Lederer, Eduard Trier : The Sculpture of Marino Marini. Thames and Hudson , 1961. (146 pages)
  • Helmut Lederer, Wolfram von Zastrow: Mexico. Helion Presse, Erlangen, 1968. (16 pages)
  • Helmut Lederer: sculptures, pictures; a selection; Erlangen, Städtische Galerie im Palais Stutterheim , July 15 to August 14, 1994. Helion Presse, Erlangen, 1994 (32 pages), ISBN 978-3-87388-026-9
  • Helmut Lederer: Forms, feminine. Sculptural drawings. Helion Presse, Erlangen, 1994 (205 pages), ISBN 978-3-87388-027-6
  • Ulrich Pohlmann (Ed.), Jürgen Sandweg (Ed.), Simone Förster (Ed.): Helmut Lederer. The photographic work 1937–1981. (Catalog book for the exhibition in the Fotomuseum in the Munich City Museum and in the Art Museum Erlangen), Kerber, Bielefeld, 2004 (192 pages), ISBN 978-3-936646-68-9
  • Gertraud Lehmann (Ed.): Atelier lederer. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Erlangen Art Museum and the Erlangen City Archives in the Loewenichschen Palais, January 16 to February 13, 2005), Erlangen City Archives, 2005 (49 pages), ISBN 3-930035-08-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Lederer: the draftsman. (PDF; 526 kB) In: erlangen.de. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The photographer and sculptor Helmut Lederer in his studio. (PDF; 224 kB) In: digiporta.net. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Helmut Lederer: Sculptor and photographer. (PDF; 4,117 kB) In: erlangen.de. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f H. Hedayati: Art in Erlangen: Art in public space. In: hedayati.eu. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Helmut-Lederer-Str., Erlangen. In: meinestadt.de. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lederer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1999
Place of death gain