Helmut Wolff (artist)

Helmut Wolff (born April 9, 1932 in Mainz-Laubenheim ) is a German visual artist .

Life

1951–1957 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin , where he was a master student of Hans Uhlmann . In 1958 he took part in the international competition for a memorial in Auschwitz ; in the jury and a. Henry Moore . From 426 designs from 36 countries, he was the only German selected for the best seven designs. In 1959 he received a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts in the Villa Massimo ( Rome ). In the same year he received a scholarship from the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry .

In 1966 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Berlin , architecture department - sculptural design. From 1979 to 1981 Wolff taught art education at the Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Between 1983 and 1984 he was a lecturer at the Oberlin Seminar, a college for educators in Berlin-Grunewald .

Helmut Wolff lives as a freelance painter and sculptor in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1991 he set up a second studio in Brittany .

Participation in exhibitions and commissioned work

• 1957 Berlin, Interbau
• 1958 Paris, Unesco. Seven selected designs in the international competition for a memorial in Auschwitz
• 1959 Regensburg, Ars Viva
• 1960 Würzburg, Ars Viva
• 1961 Antwerp, 6th Middelheim Biennale, German Association of Artists
• 1962 German Art Council, sculpture in Germany from 1950, Berlin, Galerie S, outdoor sculpture
• 1963 Frankfurt / M., Appel Gallery, sculpture 2
• 1962/64 collaboration on the architectural sculptures of the youth hostel of the Berlin Senate
• 1965 Entrance design for the municipal library in Berlin-Reinickendorf
• 1978 Pillar design of the Reichssportfeld-Brücke at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, as well as the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, retrospective study stay as a master student in the Villa Massimo in Rome
• 1979 Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken: Review of Villa Massimo; Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin : Review of Villa Massimo; State Art Collection Kassel: Review of Villa Massimo
• 1979/80 railing and pedestal design of the Olympic Bridge Berlin
• 1980 Free Berlin Art Exhibition Berlin
• 1983/95 Free Berlin Art Exhibition (changing exhibition of various sculptures and paintings)
• 2000 Order for designs of 2 figural steel sculptures (6 meters X 4 meters) for the Hohenzollerndamm Bridge in Berlin

literature

• Bauwelt, A memorial for Auschwitz , June 23, 1958
• Eduard Trier, Figure and Space, the Sculpture of the 20th Century , Berlin 1960;
• Eduard Trier, notes on the new memorial , special print from "Man and the Arts";
• Helmut Wolff, Uno scultore guidica , L 'architettura, gennaio 1960
• Constantine Fitzgibbon: A Memorial to Mass Murder . In: The Observer, May 4, 1958
• Hans Rauschning: Everyone is alone here . In: " The evening " of May 9, 1958
• Felix-E. Laue, Spiritual experience through abstraction , in: Bau-Wirtschaftsblatt 1958
• Felix-E. Laue, artists from thirty countries sent their designs to Warsaw , in: Der Tagesspiegel Berlin January 27, 1959
• Werner Lange, Too serious for hollow pathos , in: Der Kurier January 17, 1961
• HR Herrmann, replacement building for the Olympic Bridge in Berlin-Charlottenburg , in: Tiefbau, September 1981