Hubert Schiefelbein

Hubert Schiefelbein (* 7. August 1930 in Falkenburg ) is a German diploma sculptor and the only Professor of Visual and architecture-related art in the former GDR .

biography

Hubert Schiefelbein grew up in Falkenburg in Western Pomerania, today Złocieniecin Poland, in a simple family. From 1937 to 1944 he attended the local elementary and middle school. After a failed escape in 1945, he worked on a German farm and then in a Polish bakery until the resettlement in July 1947. From 1948 to 1950 he learned the trade of a carpenter in Greifswald. From 1950 to 1953 he graduated from the technical school for applied arts in Wismar specializing in wood carving. From 1953 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Professor Heinrich Drake at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee, graduating with a diploma. In 1958 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists . Until his appointment as a lecturer for building sculpture in 1965 at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar, he worked as a freelance sculptor in Berlin. He succeeded Professor Siegfried Tschierschky (born December 27, 1898 in Gropoli / Italy, † November 6, 1965 in Weimar), who paved the way for plastic walls in architectural facades. Schiefelbein continued his work in teaching and research. In 1969 he was appointed professor of fine arts at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction, Faculty of Architecture, which he held until he left at the end of 1992. In addition, from 1976 to 1979 he was head of the scientific field of design and drafting and from 1979 to 1991 head of the artistic field.

The focus of his work is on people with their joys, sorrows, fears and hopes, the relationships between people and the dependency on social constraints.

Hubert Schiefelbein is married, has two children and has lived in Neubukow since 1994 .

Concrete blocks

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Hubert Schiefelbein has developed a whole series of concrete elements that are based not only on decorative, but also functional considerations. With regard to the décor, the elements allowed as many possible combinations as possible by rotating, enabled an attractive play with light and shadow and did not represent any concrete objects, since otherwise these would lose their symbolic value due to the seriality. The optimal range of variations could be achieved through asymmetrically cut elements with different sized openings. From a functional point of view, the elements are designed in such a way that the wall openings led the view diagonally into the depths of the room in order to allow enough light to pass through and at the same time to protect them adequately from looks from outside and that they had sufficient stability. With their decorative character and the principle of rowing, the sculptural walls mediate between monumental art and series construction and have made a significant contribution to the appearance of architecture in the GDR. A special feature of Hubert Schiefelbein's designs is the curved opening - the sloping, convex or concave shape of the guide through the cube. Each wall designed by Schiefelbein automatically has two different views due to the asymmetrical design of the building blocks.

For Schiefelbein it was important to emphasize the strength of the materials, especially the wall, since the architecture itself was increasingly composed of two-dimensional elements. In the prefabricated buildings, the depth of the structure was little or not emphasized.

The cooperation with the landscape architect Erhard Kister from the Erfurt Housing Combine gave Hubert Schiefelbein the opportunity to design the elements in the concrete context of the large housing estates in Erfurt and to realize them there. Its walls were later used in other cities and settlements.

Works (selection)

1959 to 1962 small sculptures in bronze

• One of the painters' brigade, 23 cm, Museum Magdeburg
• Miss, 40 cm, Museum Magdeburg (2nd prize in small sculpture competition 1960)
• Singer, 40 cm, Bauhaus University Weimar
• Old one on the bench, 16 cm, Museum Erfurt

1961 to 1971 play sculptures in concrete

• Climbing elephant, 130 cm, Berlin
• Groups of camels, 240 cm, Leipzig and other cities
• Space stations, 180 cm, Erfurt

1962 to 1968 Architecture-related art in concrete

Kino International - north facade

City Hall Karl-Marx-Stadt

• Kino “International” (together with Waldemar Grzimek and Karl Heinz Schamal), 3 compositions and 7 reliefs, Berlin
• Breakthrough plastic wall, House of Industry Administration, Chemnitz (prize in the architecture competition 1968)
• Breakthrough plastic walls at the Karl-Marx-Stadt town hall

1964 to 1993 medals and plaques in bronze, terracotta, etc.

• Year of the Woman, bronze, bronze, 68 mm, 1975, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Science Union, bronze, 58 mm, Erfurt
• Literature Art Prize Weimar, bronze, 58 mm, 1984, Weimar
• 125 years of tradition at the Weimar University, bronze 74 × 46 mm, 1985, Bauhaus University Weimar
• Wartburg near Eisenach, bronze, 60 mm, 1988, Wartburg Eisenach
• University sculptor, bronze, 102 mm, 1988, Bauhaus University Weimar
• Reflecting on architecture, bronze, 69 mm, 1989
• pro emerito, bronze, 102 mm, 1990, Bauhaus University Weimar
• Summary, bronze, 75 mm, 1990
• Bauhaus Foundation, terracotta, 76 mm, 1990, Bauhaus University Weimar
• Monetary Union, bronze, 75 mm, 1990, Münzsammlungen Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Münster (XXIII FIDEM Congress London 1992)

1969 to 1990 plastic / sculptures in bronze, marble and artificial stone

• Sculpture “Friendship of Nations”, bronze, 175 cm, Werbellinsee and Erfurt
• Fountain sculpture "Bathers", marble, 126 cm, 1984, on the cafeteria courtyard of the Bauhaus University Weimar (nationally valuable cultural asset 2014)
• "History of Architecture" column, plaster of paris, 340 cm, 1990/1995, Bauhaus University Weimar

1970 to 1980 Breakthrough plastic concrete blocks and reliefs in the open space

• Half-shell, 50 × 50 × 25 cm, WBK Erfurt
• X element, 50 × 50 × 25 cm, WBK Erfurt
• Cross turn, 50 × 50 × 25 cm, WBK Erfurt
• Seat shell, 180 × 60 × 40 cm, WBK Erfurt
• "Riffeln" relief wall
• Relief wall "Falter", 150 × 100 × 25 cm, WBK Erfurt
• Relief "Tectonics 80" in the foyer of the main building of the Bauhaus University Weimar

1991 to 2007 sculptures in wood and stone

• Split, Rüster, 72 cm, 1992, Archive of Modernism at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Unity, pear tree, 62 cm, 1992, Archives of Modernism at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Unity, Rüster, 90 cm, 1993, Archives of Modernism at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Violence, marble, 60 cm, 1993, Archives of Modernism at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Ambivalence, marble, 52 cm, 1993
• Retirement, marble, 38 cm, 1993
• Mother, marble, 50 cm, 1993
• Fertility, marble, 45 cm, 1993
• Nursing case, granite, 22 cm, 1997
• Seated woman, limestone, 28 cm, 1998
• Load carrier, armor, 98 cm, 1999, Archives of Modernism at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Kampf, Kiefer, 95 cm, 1999
• II Gerangel, Rüster, 82 cm, 1999
• Assistance, pine, 101 cm, 2000
• Brothers Cain and Abel, Poplar, 82 cm, 2001
• Eva, walnut, 89 cm, 2002
• Lost Venus, oak, 85 cm, 2002, Archives of Modernism at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• III Fechter, Kiefer, 148 cm, 2003, Archives of Modernism of the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Adam, walnut, 80 cm, 2004, Bauhaus University Weimar
• Future, walnut, 89 cm, 2004
• Joy, Oak, 146 cm, 2005, Archive of Modern Art at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Chastity, oak, 144 cm, 2005
• Wind, oak, 94 cm, 2007, Archives of Modernism of the Bauhaus University Weimar

1963 to 1990 articles in professional journals

Art education, fine arts, scientific journal of the University of Architecture and Building (HAB) Weimar

1996 to 2011 self-published editions

• Word and picture - 12 booklets A5
• Image and word - 12 booklets (clovers), 21 × 10.5 cm

literature

• Hubert Schiefelbein: Writings of the University of Architecture and Building Weimar . Weimar 1990, ISBN 3-86068-023-4 .
• Florian Kirfel, Moritz Fritz: Canteen at the Park - On the use and consumption of recent architecture . M-BOOKS, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-944425-01-6 .
• Luise Helas, Wilma Rambow, Felix Rössl: Artful surfaces of socialism: murals and concrete blocks . Bauhaus Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-95773-171-5 .
• Dietrich Worbs: The "International" cinema in Berlin. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7861-2711-6 .
• Henning Huschka: Ceramic medals by Hubert Schiefelbein. In: Erfurter Münzfreunde eV (Hrsg.): Erfurter Münzblätter. Yearbook 2012/2013. Volume XX / XXI, Erfurt 2015.