Heribert Calleen

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Heribert Jakob Calleen (also known as Herbert Calleen , born March 6, 1924 in Cologne ; † November 24, 2017 ibid.) Was a German sculptor and medalist . His oeuvre includes medals and plaques, sculptures and sculptures , fountains , memorials , memorials, tombs and works of art for sacred spaces.

life and work

Toni Stockheim introduced him to sculpture in 1946. In 1947 an apprenticeship as a stonemason followed in the Cologne cathedral building works . At the same time he began studying sculpture at the Cologne Werkschulen , first with Wolfgang Wallner and from 1948 with Ludwig Gies . In 1952 he was a master student of Gies, who is best known as a medal cutter. In 1954 Heribert Calleen opened his own studio in Cologne and at the same time took over the office of tomb adviser at the cemetery administration of the city of Cologne, which he held until 1987.

He cut medals and plaques using the technique of recessed relief , in which the image and the image support lie on one level. He thus committed himself to the school of Ludwig Gies, who let this technique mature to a high degree.

Heribert Calleen endowed his figurative representations with calm, radiating dignity and human warmth. His characters always act from an inner calm. He renounced any expressive expression and also any drasticness.

He reduced natural forms to the minimum necessary for communication. Heribert Calleen attached great importance to balance wherever typeface and representation come together. His writing is characterized by a sure sense of order and a confident handling of the characters - numerous grave steles testify to his fine art of writing mastery. This includes u. a. the tombstone for the glass painter Georg Meistermann and family, which Heribert Calleen created together with his father-in-law Georg Meistermann.

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

Heribert Calleen can also be seen on “Endstation Ubierring”, the 46.5 m long portrait cycle created in 1992 by the painter Hans Rolf Maria Koller . Heribert Calleen was portrayed together with Max Adenauer , L. Fritz Gruber , Wolfgang Niedecken , Heribert C. Ottersbach , Trude Herr and Stefan Wewerka , among others ; Behind him lies the figure of the town hall tower, currently in progress, of the Cologne city founder Agrippina the Elder. J. Koller's cycle was shown from December 12, 2015 to April 24, 2016 in the Cologne City Museum.

On the 25th anniversary of Georg Meistermann's death on June 12, 2015, Herbert Calleen donated the “Alternative Georg Meistermann Prize”, which he presented to the Cologne artist and art historian Norbert Küpper in the form of the original artist's copy of his Georg Meistermann plaque. He paid tribute to Küpper "for his educational work on the folk artist Hanns Scherl and his 'biographical NS denials' in the city of Wittlich".

Heribert Calleen died in November 2017 at the age of 93 and was buried on December 9, 2017 at the Melaten Central Cemetery in Cologne (Lit. C No. 491). He has two children: the journalist and social media expert Florine Calleen and the art historian, historian, photographer (DGPh) and Georg Meistermann estate administrator Justinus Maria Calleen .

Works (selection)

Portal of Klein St. Martin (2006)
  • 1951 Cologne: Prize winner medal, music college, execution in silver and bronze
  • 1952 Berlin (The Federal President): Zelter plaque for choral music and folk song of the Federal Republic of Germany, bronze - front: portrait of Carl Friedrich Zelter , back: inscription "For merits to choir, song and folk song"
  • 1953 Medal for the 75th anniversary of the Cologne Werkschulen , bronze - front: half-length portrait of an artist drawing a laurel branch, back: Cologne city arms, inscriptio as canvas on easel
  • 1954 Cologne: Klein St. Martin , tabernacle , bronze, gilded / portal, bronze, rock crystals
  • 1955 Cologne: St. Maria in the Capitol , Hermann-Josef reliquary, steel, silver-plated
  • 1956 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, grave of Dr. Annmarie Kluxen-Pohlmeier, Muschelkalk
  • 1957 Cologne-Deutz: Rheinpark , fountain bowls, color scheme
  • 1958 Neunkirchen-Seelscheid: Antoniuskolleg , boarding chapel : portal, oak; Boarding school building: wind vane
  • 1959 Cologne-Neustadt Nord: Wörthstrasse 20, Five Musicians, ceramics
  • 1959 Essen: Pax-Christi-Church, The Unknown Saints , bronze
  • 1961 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, mourning hall, cross, rosewood, rock crystal
  • 1961 Nievenheim: Nursing home, exterior wall design, seven works of mercy , ceramics
  • 1962 Düsseldorf: Südfriedhof , Erwin Thonet tomb, shell limestone
  • 1962 Cologne-Buchforst: St. Petrus Canisius, crowning of the tower, copper / baptismal font, Belgian granite, plus floor incrustation, marble, 1964
  • 1962 Neunkirchen-Seelscheid: Antoniuskolleg , sister chapel , large crucifix, oak, tinted in color / table altar, oak / tabernacle, steel, bronze, gold-plated
  • 1963 Köln-Ostheim: To the Holy Angels, incrustation of the forecourt covering
  • 1963 Cologne: Little St. Martin, chapel, portal, topic: "Seven Works of Mercy" with "Ecce Homo", bronze, rock crystal
  • 1964 Cologne: Börsenplatz, Börsenbrunnen, (popularly "Schaschlikbrunnen"), bronze, stone, ceramics
  • 1968 Cologne: Rudolfplatz , Würfelbrunnen, Belgian granite
  • 1968 Cologne-Vogelsang: Westfriedhof , field of victims of the Nazi tyranny, youths in the furnace , bronze
  • 1969 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, tomb for Eva and Rudi Merz, draft (made by Franzen)
  • 1969 Euskirchen: market fountain, basalt lava
  • 1974 Cologne-Braunsfeld : St. Joseph , tabernacle stele and ambo, Anröchter dolomite / atrium, cross stele, Anröchter dolmit, 1975 / hanging cross, bronze / ivory, 1978 / Osterleuchter, bronze
  • 1974/75 Ernst Schröder Medal of the Rhineland Gardening, Landscaping and Sports Field Construction Associations. V. and Westfalen-Lippe e. V.
  • 1975 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, tomb of the Cologne Jesuit branch, Anröchter dolomite
  • 1975 Cologne-Lindenthal : light-water fountain, bronze, private collection
  • 1975 Hanover: wall fountain, bronze, private property
  • 1976 Werne: Spindelbrunnen, bronze, private property
  • 1977 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, tomb of the sisters of the Congregation Divini Cordis Jesu
  • 1977 Cologne: Cologne Churches Plaques, ed. by Joachim Bohn, St. Maria in the Capitol , bronze
  • 1977 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, Beckmann tomb, depiction: Sower
  • 1978 Cologne: Börsenkellerbrunnen, basalt lava / spindle, bronze, 1981
  • 1979 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, memorial stone "Adolf Clarenbach-Peter Fliesteden", Belgian granite
  • 1984 Bensberg: Well of the guild health insurance fund, copper
  • 1989 Cologne: town hall tower , north side, ground floor, No. 3, Agrippina d. J., Tuff
  • 1989 Cologne: Melaten cemetery, grave of the glass painter Georg Meistermann and family
  • 1990s Refrath (near Cologne): Tabernacle for St. Johann Baptist in the Siebenmorgen district
  • 1992 Cologne: City Hall Tower, east side, 2nd floor, No. 76: Gustav von Mevissen, Tuff, Savonnières 2008 / east side, 2nd floor, No. 75, Moses Hess, Tuff, Savonier 2008
  • 1992 Cologne: Town hall tower, nine consoles with the depictions of the nine muses: Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Kalliope, Terpsichore, Klio, Thalia, Erato and Urania, Tuff
  • 1995 Cologne: town hall tower, four portrait consoles (Hiltrud Kier, Ulrich Krings, Norbert Burger, Bernd Ernsting), trachyte
  • 1999 Ambo in for St. Johann Baptist in Referath-Siebenmorgen
  • 2005/06 Kreuz ( Crux triumphalis ) in for St. Johann Baptist in Referath-Siebenmorgen
  • 2007 Cologne: Plaque with a portrait of Georg Meistermann , bronze
  • 2009 Cologne: high cathedral church , central nave, pillar no. C 4, commemorative plaque “World Youth Day” 2009, bronze
  • 2010 Cologne: Medal "Prize of the Advisory Board of the Cologne Research Center for Media Law ", bronze
The medal of the Society for Data Protection and Data Security has been awarded annually since 2013.

Exhibitions (participation)

  • 1962 Art sacré contemporain dans l'Archidiocèse de Cologne, 1945–1962, Paris
  • 1964 Ars Sacra. Church art in the Archbishopric of Cologne 1945–1964, Cologne
  • 1975 Ars Sacra '75. Church art of the present, Cologne

Fonts

  • Graveyard. In: Werk und Zeit. 2/1961, pp. 3-4.
  • Christian tomb by word, symbol and sign. In: The Christian tomb. Cologne 1970, pp. 29-46.
  • Cemetery - place of peace. In: The Minster. 9-10, 1962, pp. 342-350.

literature

  • Heribert Calleen: “Little, but quality”. Started in the Dombauhütte - designed model cemetery for the Federal Horticultural Show. In: Kölnische Rundschau. October 26, 1956
  • Heribert Calleen: Cemetery - Place of Peace , The Minster. 9-10, 1962, pp. 130-131.
  • Vilma Sturm : In a gentle fall from level to level. In: Cologne. 2/1973, p. 6.
  • Helmut Fußbroich: Memorial plaques in Cologne. Traces of the city's history. Cologne 1985, p. 32.
  • Gerhard Kolberg: Sculpture in Cologne. 20th century images in the cityscape. Cologne 1988, pp. 59-60.
  • Birgit Schilling: Fountain in Cologne. Cologne 1988, pp. 80-81, 87.
  • Justinus Maria Calleen: The sculptor Heribert Calleen. In: Harald Peikert (Ed.): Braunsfeld - a puzzle in 23 parts. Cologne, 1989, pp. 108-111.
  • Justinus Maria Calleen: St. Joseph in a new light. The new Easter candlestick by Herbert Calleen. In: BraunsWelt. 1990, pp. 16-17.
  • Werner Eck : Agrippina, the city founder of Cologne. A woman in early imperial politics. Series of publications by the Archaeological Society of Cologne. Volume 22 (illustration of the town hall figure of Agrippina the Younger on the back cover) Greven, Cologne 1993.
  • Florine Calleen, Justinus Maria Calleen: Data protection officer Peter Schaar honored. The Cologne sculptor Heribert Calleen created the GDD plaque. (PDF)
  • Hiltrud Kier, Bernd Ernsting, Ulrich Krings (eds.), Cologne: The town hall tower. Its history and its program of figures (= city ​​traces - monuments in Cologne. 21). Cologne 1996, p. 657.
  • Helmut Fußbroich: Callen, Heribert Jakob . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 696.
  • Helmut Fußbroich: Architecture Guide Cologne. Profane architecture after 1900. Photography Dierk Holthausen. Cologne 1997, no.64.
  • Helmut Fußbroich: Sculpture Guide Cologne. Sculptures in public spaces after 1900. Photography Dierk Holthausen. Cologne 2000, No. 38.
  • Max-Leo Schwering: Cologne: Braunsfeld - Melaten. Cologne 2004, pp. 158, 159.
  • Hans-Kurt Boehlke: On the Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture, History of the Working Group on Cemetery and Monument eV Second part 1977–1992, upress.uni-kassel.de p. 58 f.
  • Helmut Fußbroich: Architecture Guide Cologne. Sacred buildings after 1900. Photography Dierk Holthausen. Cologne 2005, No. 07, 23, 39, 53.
  • Kölner Domblatt . Yearbook of the Zentral-Dombau-Verein, Cologne 2009, p. 39 with ill. 31.
  • Dieter Siebert-Gasper: The return of the "Guardian Angel" - the Cologne sculptor Heribert Calleen and the Antoniuskolleg in Neunkirchen. In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 2016, pp. 144–152.
  • Wolfgang Stöcker: Eternal peace of mind! - Current cemetery (un) culture. In: Ohlsdorf - magazine for mourning culture. 105, II, May 2009.

Web links

Commons : Heribert Calleen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We mourn , accessed December 2, 2017
  2. ^ Justinus Maria Calleen: Human life is enveloped in color. Georg Meistermann for the hundredth birthday , exhibition catalog, ed. v. Justinus Maria Calleen and Rolf Jessewitsch, Solingen Art Museum - Center for Persecuted Arts, Bayreuth Art Museum and German Glass Painting Museum Linnich, Berlin and Solingen 2011, p. 139 (on the tombstone for Georg Meistermann and his family)
  3. ↑ Ubierring terminus. Cologne City Museum, accessed on April 22, 2016 . Blog post / picture for the exhibition of the Koller cycle 2015/16 in the Cologne City Museum with picture of Heribert Calleen (2nd person from right). Smow.de blog, accessed on April 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ see: Prizes: Georg-Meistermann-Plakette, in: Kunstforum 9/2015 ; as well as: The member of the ELS society, Norbert Küpper, has been awarded the Georg Meistermann badge, in: Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft, Wuppertal 2015
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kluxen's wife, who died early ; 2013 placed under monument protection by Cologne city curator Thomas Werner . Reason: because of "outstanding quality ... sovereign command of the typeface ... high testimony value for the development of the grave sculpture in the second half of the 20th century ... as important for human history and for the history of the city of Cologne as part of the Melaten cemetery". Source: official letter from the city curator to Heribert Calleen
  6. ↑ Hahnentor-Brunnen (Cube Fountain). Rheinisches Bildarchiv , accessed on December 8, 2014 . On August 19, 2014, the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection named it "Monument of the Month August 2014". RVDL “Monument of the Month” August 2014 , Würfel-Brunnen on Rudolfplatz, August 19, 2014; Cube fountain should be preserved. Kölner Wochenspiegel, September 4, 2014, accessed on December 8, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Farewell present finally handed over to Pastor Hommerich. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  8. ^ Price of the Advisory Board. Cologne University of Applied Sciences - Cologne Research Center for Media Law, accessed on December 8, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Peter Schaar receives the GDD data protection award 2013. Society for data protection and data security e. V., November 15, 2013, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  10. ↑ PM 1/2014: Monument plaque provides information about the ground monument. In: Koeln University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved July 24, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Data protection award for Jan Philipp Albrecht 2014. Society for data protection and data security e. V., November 20, 2014, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  12. ↑ GDD data protection prize for Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. In: gdd.de. November 19, 2015, accessed October 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Calleen, Heribert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calleen, Heribert Jakob (full name); Calleen, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2017
Place of death Cologne