Hubert Elsässer

The four elements on the floor slabs of the Groebenzeller fountain

Hubert Elsässer (born June 14, 1934 in Würzburg , † September 23, 2009 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

From 1955 to 1961 Elsässer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he was a master student of Josef Henselmann . From 1959 to 1961 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 1962 and 1963 he continued his studies at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris .

In 1964 and 1965 he worked as a scholarship holder at Villa Massimo . From 1968 he lived and worked in Gröbenzell near Munich. In 1984 he received the Schwabing Art Prize .

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The most important works by Hubert Elsässer can be found in the area of ​​architecture-related, public sculptures, fountains and church chancel designs. With commissioned work in many churches all over Germany, Hubert Elsässer is one of the most important sculptors of his time in this field.

The most important works here in Limburg Cathedral include the altar island, a wrought-iron grille, the cathedra ; in the St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin the grave slab for Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg ; in Fritzlar Cathedral the Way of the Cross and in Würzburg Cathedral the apse design , the Marian column, the memorial portrait of Cardinal Döpfner and the fountain in the cloister. In the public area, the Würtzburg column in the congress center and in Munich the fountain in Schützenstraße and the Faun meeting point at the Studentenwerk on Leopoldstraße should be mentioned.

The figuration of the works is developed from plant forms (especially trees) and also from landscapes. The sculptures seem to have grown out of nature spontaneously. The recurring slice is characteristic, like a fruit on a stem-like base.

In his home community of Gröbenzell, the four-element fountain in front of the Catholic St. Johann Baptist Church and the approximately 1.60 meter high Knospe stele in the foyer of the community center are reminiscent of the artist.

In his last years Hubert Elsässer devoted himself more and more to the representation of the human figure, be it as portraits (e.g. four Nobel Prize winners for the Max Planck Society ) or as free, abstract full-body figures made of limewood.

• Works by Hubert Elsässer in public space
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  Stone stele
  1968
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  Central nave with altar island
  Limburg Cathedral 1976
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  Interior of
  St. Kilian Cathedral,
  Würzburg, 1988
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  Bronze Faun
  1990
  Munich, Leopoldstr. 11

literature

• Church - Way of the Cross in our days. St. Petri Cathedral in Fritzlar, 1990, ISBN 3-925665-10-2
• Gebhard Streicher: Overlays, upheavals, cavity depths. Das Münster, 1981, issue 4, ISSN  0027-299X

Web links

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