Horst Engelhardt

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Horst Engelhardt (born February 10, 1951 in Leuben ; † August 22, 2014 in Eichwerder ) was a German sculptor.

Life

After attending the Polytechnic High School , Engelhardt received training as a stonemason in Meißen and Dresden. In addition to his job, he did evening studies at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1969 to 1970 . From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture there with Walter Arnold , Helmut Heinze and Gerd Jaeger . He then worked as a freelance sculptor in the former Jäckelsbruch manor in Eichwerder near Wriezen. From 1979 to 1982 Engelhardt was a master student with Werner Stötzer at the Academy of the Arts in the GDR . Until his death he worked again as a sculptor in Eichwerder. Engelhardt's son Jörg is also a sculptor.

Engelhardt's grave is in the Eichwerder cemetery.

reception

“The work of the sculptor Horst Engelhardt is multi-layered and has many shapes… wood, stone, clay, plaster, wax, even steel… seem to have found their own shape, the boundaries between figuration and abstraction have been removed, have become unimportant…. Especially the handling of wood is virtuoso. "

"He works equally perfectly with wood and stone."

Works (selection)

Seven Raven Fountain on the market square in Frankfurt Oder
  • Female nude with raised arm, walnut wood, 1978
  • Bust of Cornelia Schleime , bronze, around 1980/85
  • Bust of G. Kluck, bronze, 1980/81
  • Bust of Willi Strache, bronze, around 1980/85
  • Pugilist, Sandstone, 2001
  • Hercules, sandstone
  • Appassionata, bronze, 2009

Art in public space (selection)

  • Bad Freienwalde: Marktbrunnen ("Tröpfelbrunnen"). Bronze and Porphyry, 1986
  • Seelow: Marktbrunnen ("Schäferbrunnen"). Bronze, sandstone and steel, 1988
  • Wriezen: Marktbrunnen ("fountain of life"). Bronze, granite, 1997
  • Frankfurt / Oder: Marktbrunnen ("Seven Ravens"). Bronze, granite and sandstone, 2002

Graphic (selection)

  • Five lithographs and a letter from a friend Hannes Schnebli. Artist's book (11th graphic book of the gallery of the Berlin graphic press), 2003

Exhibitions (selection)

Engelhardt has had around 35 solo exhibitions and over 70 exhibition participations since 1977. a. in

  • 1986 Frankfurt / Oder, cabinet of the Galerie Junge Kunst (sculpture, graphics and drawings)
  • 1988 Dresden, art exhibition Kühl (sculpture and graphics)
  • 2010 Altranft, Brandenburg Open Air Museum (sculptures; with Jörg Engelhardt)
  • 2012 Berlin, gallery of the Berlin graphic press ("Himmel und Land" ; with Gerhard Wienckowski)

Publications (selection)

  • Horst Engelhardt (ed.): Horst Engelhardt - sculptures and drawings . Findling-Verlag, Werneuchen 2001, ISBN 978-3-933603-14-2 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Horst Engelhardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Sächsische Zeitung, September 6, 2014
  2. ^ Britta Kaiser-Schuster: Sculpture and graphics , on horst-engelhardt.de
  3. ^ Art from the East , Münstersche Zeitung, December 5, 2002
  4. ↑ Female nude with raised arm , on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on July 8, 2020
  5. ↑ a b portrait , on horst-engelhardt.de, accessed on July 8, 2020
  6. ^ Portrait of G. Kluck , on the picture index of art & architecture
  7. ↑ a b Horst Engelhardt , on kunst-im-oderbruch.de, accessed on July 8, 2020
  8. ↑ Hard work on heavy material , on moz.de, accessed on July 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Leuben
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2014
Place of death Eichwerder