Horst Rellecke

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Horst Rellecke (* 1951 in Duisburg ) is a German architect and artist who had a major impact on the art scene in Westphalia . His best-known work is the new landmark of the city of Hamm , the glass elephant , which he created in 1984 from the old coal washing plant of the closed Maximilian colliery . Horst Rellecke lives and works on the Möhnesee .

Life

Landmark of the city of Hamm: the glass elephant

In 1970 Rellecke graduated from high school in Hamm and two years later began studying architecture at the University of Stuttgart . This was also the beginning of his painting. He developed a special oil-chalk mixing technique. The first sculptures made of metal and glass followed in 1973. He completed his diploma thesis with Hans Kammerer. In 1978 he received an assistant position at the Institute for Drawing and Modeling at the University of Stuttgart. After working in Egypt in 1979 , he used a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to study with Charles Moore at the University of California, Los Angeles . After working in North America , he received his doctorate in 1982 with the dissertation Relations between Pop and Architecture as a doctoral engineer (Dr.-Ing.). In 1988 a study visit to Italy of several months followed.

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(in selection)

  • 1981–1984: Glass elephant for the first state horticultural show in North Rhine-Westphalia in Hamm
  • 1986: several large kinetic sculptures
  • 1987: Design concept for the interior of the glass elephant
  • 1991: Fountain sculptures "Controversy" for the Federal Horticultural Show in Dortmund 1991
  • 1994: Laser show "From Altamira to Mars"
  • 1997: Completion of the last object for the glass elephant
    • Laser show "Decathlon" in Maximilianpark
    • first stained glass window
  • 1998: Conversion of the former coal mixing plant of the Osterfeld colliery to the GartenDOM Oberhausen (41 m high, 5600 m² floor space) for the Oberhausen State Horticultural Show
  • 1999: Plastic "Rain in Sunshine - Steel Cloud" in the Möhnesee (Regional Cultural Funding NRW)
  • 1999: "HAMMillennium" laser show in downtown Hamm
  • 2000: Project "Night light staging of wind turbines on the Haarstrang" at the Möhnesee (regional cultural promotion NRW)
  • 2001: Retrospective in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm (50 years of Rellecke)
  • 2002: Light installation "Night light staging" on the wind power plant at BAB 2 in Bergkamen
  • 2003: Light installation "Rainbow Bridge" Hamm
  • 2004: Anniversary exhibition "20 years of glass elephant" in Maximilianpark Hamm
  • 2006: Solar light object "The view into the future" in Bergkamen

Prizes and awards

  • 1975: Scholarship from the Aldegrever Society, first etchings
  • 1989: 1st prize in the Zeven tax office competition with the sculpture "Der Zehnt"
  • 1992: 1st prize in the competition for the Gelsenkirchen Federal Horticultural Show , with Wedig Pridik
  • 1993: 1st prize in the competition for the State Horticultural Show in Oberhausen 1999, with Lazlo Czinki
  • 2005: Winner in the "Hamm Visionär" competition with the sculpture "Lippespringer"

literature

  • Horst Rellecke / Günther Wirth: Concepts. Stuttgart 1978.
  • Horst Rellecke: The way to the Astro-Park. Stuttgart 1978.
  • Horst Rellecke: Archigraph. Stuttgart 1979.
  • Paderborn City Library (Ed.): Horst Rellecke, painting, graphics, objects and concepts. Paderborn 1988.
  • Horst Rellecke: Catalog raisonné printmaking. Bönen 2001. ISBN 3-935019-30-0
  • Horst Rellecke: Catalog raisonné plastic. Bönen 2001. ISBN 3-935019-49-1
  • Frieder Gadesmann : Seven Angels for Württemberg. Stuttgart 2009.
  • Frieder Gadesmann : Angels for Sindelfingen. Sindelfingen 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Rellecke, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg