Herbert Baumann (sculptor)

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Sun disk (1961), was created during the first German sculpture symposium (today Eindhoven)
Untitled (1964), Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland

Herbert Baumann (born January 4, 1927 in Blumberg ; † May 22, 1990 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor and university professor.

life and work

Baumann began his training 1948–1950 with the sculptor Walter Schelenz at the arts and crafts school in Bonndorf in the Black Forest . 1950–1952 he trained as a stonemason, and 1952–1955 he studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 1955 he spent a year as an intern in Paris . 1956–1959 he studied with Karl Hartung at the Berlin School of Fine Arts . In 1963 he visited Japan. In the summer semester of 1965 he was appointed professor of sculpture (successor to Otto Baum ) at the Stuttgart Academy, where he remained active until his death. In 1966 Baumann received the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Förderpreis of the city of Duisburg .

Participation in sculptor symposia (selection)

In 1960 Baumann was invited by Karl Prantl to the 2nd Symposium of European Sculptors in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland and in 1961 he took part in the first Federal German sculptor symposium , the sculptor symposium Kaisersteinbruch , in Gaubüttelbrunn in a shell limestone quarry in Lower Franconia .

Together with Karl Prantl , Erich Reischke , Gerson Fehrenbach , Yasuo Mizui and others, he took part in the so-called Wall Symposium , the symposium of European sculptors 1961–1963 in the Berlin Tiergarten , which was organized as a demonstration against the construction of the Berlin Wall. The symposium later received the German Critics' Prize .

In 1964 he took part with Karl Prantl, Morice Lipsi and Hiromi Akiyama at the sculpture symposium Vyšné Ružbachy in Vyšné Ružbachy in Slovakia . In the summer of 1974, together with some of his students and students of the sculpture class Rudolf Hoflehner, he took part in a symposium held by the sculpture department of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart at the invitation of the city of Leonberg on the Leonberger Heide. "The purpose of the event was to give the young sculptors the opportunity to realize their ideas in the natural environment on a larger scale, whereby the process of creating the work in materials such as stone, wood, concrete, plastic and earth could be directly experienced by the public." At the end of the symposium, the first event of its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany from an art college, a documentation was published which presented the work of all participants. In addition to Herbert Baumann and Otto Baral (technical teacher for sculpture), the students Ivo Bay Müller, Utz Brocksieper , Karl Ciesluk, Rainer Hantschke, Gerhard von Harpe, Michael W. Huber, Roger Krötz, Reinhard Scherer and Caspar Warnecke were involved. The remaining works of art were damaged or even destroyed over the course of time, as early as the German autumn of 1977, most recently in 2002 the concrete sculpture by Roger Krötz that can be walked on. The monumental plastic sculpture "Components" by Utz Brocksieper still stood in a prestigious position on the academy site at Weißenhof until well into the first decade of the 21st century after it was labeled with political slogans in 1977. Since 2007 it is in permanent exhibition in the sculpture park "Kulturforum Pampin" in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Marc Fredric Gundel: Academy student body and teaching after 1945. On the significance and problems using the example of Otto Baum and Herbert Baumann as art college teachers , dissertation University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1995.
  • Siegfried Salzmann: Herbert Baumann . Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 1968
  • Herbert Baumann . Exhibition catalog. Gallery of the City of Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar 1990
  • Stuttgart encounters: the Wolfgang Kermer donation ; Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, May 18 - June 24, 2005 / [Ed .: Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH; Nicole Nix-Hauck. Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer]
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen. [Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer; Nicole Nix-Hauck] Neunkirchen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 15-16 m. Fig.

Web links

Commons : Herbert Baumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [13]
  2. ↑ Exhibitions by students . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 6: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1974 to March 31, 1975. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, May 1975, p. 54.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Symposion Leonberger Heide summer semester '74. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . With a foreword by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1974.
  4. ↑ Illustrated on full page. in: Akademie-Mitteilungen 6: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1974 to March 31, 1975. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, May 1975, p. 51 (the illustration shows the sculpture at its location on the Leonberger Heide).
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumberg
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1990
Place of death Stuttgart