Hilde Broër

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Hilde Broër (born January 2, 1904 in Witten an der Ruhr , † November 24, 1987 in Kressbronn am Bodensee ) was a German sculptor and medalist . She took all her Medaillenkunst in bronze forth.

life and work

Door handles on the Catholic parish church 'Maria Hilfe der Christisten' in Kressbronn: 'Mensch', symbol for the evangelist Matthew , and 'lion', symbol for the evangelist Markus
Grave in the old cemetery in Kressbronn

After attending school in Witten, Broër began studying sculpture with Wolfgang Wallner at the Cologne factory schools in 1924 . Her classmate and friend was Gretel Schulte-Hostedde . From 1925 she attended the ceramics class there at Dorkas Reinacher-Härlin , where, among other things, free turning on the potter's wheel was taught. In 1927 she graduated from Cologne and in the same year moved to Berlin with Gretel Schulte-Hostedde.

After a one-week entrance exam, she began studying at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts (VSS) with Ludwig Gies . Gies was a professor of plastic in the applied arts department . From 1934 she became a master class student , which enabled her to use a studio at the art school. A variety of sculptural works were created in clay, bronze, ivory, cement casting: vessels, mosaics, reliefs and medals, essentially shaped by the flat, recessed relief style inspired by Gies and with Christian expressive ductus. From 1935 she had her own studio in Berlin-Grunewald and also studied at the architecture department of the VSS. She graduated in Berlin in 1937.

Her first major order in 1938 was clay plates with pictorial reliefs as a house sign for a new building area in Leegebruch near Oranienburg, which she designed together with Christa von Lewinski and Gretel Schulte-Hostedde and which were made in the HB workshops for ceramics by Hedwig Bollhagen . In 1943, due to the war, she joined the mosaic workshop of the sculptor Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen in Berlin and shortly afterwards fled to Kressbronn, where, among other things, she took over the artistic design of the newly built Nonnenbach School .

In the years 1950-1952 she worked at the bell hanging on the bells of Paderborn Cathedral and the ringing of the World Peace Church in the Japanese Hiroshima . In the post-war decades numerous sculptural works were created for churches, for example choir grilles and doors made in relief.

Hilde Broër died on November 24, 1987 in her house in Retterschen . Her grave is in the old cemetery in Kressbronn.

Works (selection)

  • 1950: Bells on the cathedral bells in Paderborn
  • 1950: Bells on four bells of the World Peace Church in Hiroshima, Japan
  • 1952: two mask reliefs for the "Engel-Lichtspiele" in Kressbronn
  • 1960: Bronze Madonna figure on the crown fountain in Tettnang
  • 1961: Baptismal font in the Catholic parish church Maria Hilfe der Christians in Kressbronn
  • 1962: Door handles on the main portal of the Catholic parish church Maria Hilfe der Christisten in Kressbronn: man , symbol for the evangelist Matthew ; Lion , symbol for the evangelist Mark ; Alpha and Omega , symbols for the beginning and the end; Bull , symbol for the evangelist Luke ; Eagle , symbol of the evangelist John
  • 1964: Altar stone in the district hospital chapel in Tettnang
  • 1964: Nativity relief in the St. Verena Church in Kehlen
  • 1966: Relief on the tabernacle door in the Catholic parish church Maria Hilfe der Christisten in Kressbronn
  • 1966: Doors of the St. Martin Church in Langenargen
  • 1969: Tabernacle in the house chapel of the Franciscan Sisters in Kressbronn

Awards

Numerous prizes

Exhibitions, museums

  • Participation in the FIDEM biennials 1955–1985
  • "Small bronzes" in the counter hall of the Kreissparkasse Kressbronn, November 1975
  • Permanent exhibition Museum Lände in Kressbronn
    • Special exhibition for the 100th birthday: “The great power of the small form”, June 20 to September 12, 2004
  • State Museums in Berlin , Münzkabinett
  • Langenargen Museum

Hilde Broër Prize

The Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art, awarded by the municipality of Kressbronn and the German Society for Medal Art , is awarded annually from 2005 to 2009 and every two years since 2009 to a master of the medal.

Prize winners

literature

  • Hilde Broër. Images and symbols. (with contributions by JA Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden and others) Kressbronn 1991.
  • Wolfgang Steguweit: Hilde Broër. Sculptor and medalist. Life and work. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2004.
  • Wolfgang Steguweit: Life and work as reflected in the art of medals. In: Kressbronner Jahrbuch 2004. pp. 6–10.
  • Albert Zapf: Thoughts and Memories. In: Kressbronner Jahrbuch 2004. pp. 11–17.

Web links

Commons : Hilde Broër  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit: HILDE BROËR. (PDF) Sculptor and Medalist Life and Work. (No longer available online.) In: smb.museum. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , p. 7 f , formerly in the original ; accessed on October 28, 2015 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ww2.smb.museum  
  2. ↑ Kressbronner Jahrbuch Volume 22, Chronicle 2008/2009, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Kressbronner Jahrbuch Volume 24, 2011, p. 95.
  4. ↑ Harald Ruppert: Two prize winners and a half , excerpt from Südkurier from June 11, 2013, p. 24 ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) and p. 25 ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF) on the smb.museum website
  5. ↑ medaillenkunst.de: Prizes and Honors / Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art 2015 (accessed on September 19, 2015)
  6. ↑ Hilde Broër Prize winners at www.laende.kressbronn.info (accessed on October 20, 2019)

6. https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A2620cb93-ac5a-41c7-895a-21d61701d347

personal data
SURNAME Broër, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1987
Place of death Kressbronn on Lake Constance