Hubertus of Pilgrim

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Hubertus von Pilgrim (born August 24, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German sculptor who lives and works in Pullach near Munich.

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After an apprenticeship as a cooper, Hubertus von Pilgrim studied art and literature history and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . At the same time he took artistic lessons from Erich Heckel . Finally he studied sculpture with Bernhard Heiliger at the University of the Arts in Berlin. His design for the artistic redesign of the Würzburg “Student Stone”, known as the “Langemarckstein” during the Third Reich and a monument that has existed since 1927, was awarded a prize in 1957. In 1959 the monument erected in the Würzburg Ringpark was fundamentally redesigned and relocated. In 1961 Hubertus von Pilgrim worked for Stanley William Hayter in Atelier 17 in Paris. From 1963 to 1977 he was a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig , then he was offered a position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1995 he retired and has been working as a freelancer ever since. As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Hubertus von Pilgrim took part in several large annual DKB exhibitions between 1963 and 1978.

Hubertus von Pilgrim created a total of 22 (identical) monuments that commemorate the death march of the prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 and that stand along the route of the death march in Munich and in the greater Munich area. Another copy is in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem. Pilgrim also created a monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the Lesmüller-Haus in Perusastrasse in downtown Munich.

During his long artistic career, von Pilgrim was not only sculpting but also designing coins and medals and engraving. Hubertus von Pilgrim is a member of the German Society for Medal Art and belongs to the group of artists in Munich .

Awards

In 1995 he was accepted into the order Pour le mérite for science and the arts, in 1997 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star, in 2005 the Bavarian Cross of Merit and in 2008 the German Medalist Prize Johann Veit Döll . In 2011 he became Vice Chancellor of the Order Pour le mérite. In 2013 he received the Hilde Broër Prize for his life's work for medal art in Kressbronn from the German Society for Medal Art.

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Individual evidence

  1. John Schellakowsky: Student remembrance culture in transition. The Würzburg student stone from the national memorial to the memorial of peace. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburg's City and University History , 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 311–319; here: p. 317 f.
  2. Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1285, note 344.
  3. Darmstadt Secession : Hubertus von Pilgrim , accessed on August 3, 2016.
  4. kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 10, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. List of memorials commemorating the death marches from Dachau with locations ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gz-tm-dachau.de
  6. artist. Prof. Hubertus von Pilgrim. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on June 23, 2014 .
  7. ^ Journal of Political Monuments : From annoyance to photo motif (accessed on November 19, 2012)

Web links

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