Ivo Beucker
Ivo Beucker (born June 27, 1909 in Barmen ; † December 17, 1965 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Ivo Beucker was born on June 27, 1909 in Barmen (today Wuppertal ). He spent his first youth in Hagen / Westphalia until his family moved to Düsseldorf in 1920 .
The parents Ingo and Ella Beucker promote the talent of the talented son and give him and his brother Ingo Beucker (architect, 1906–1990) drawing lessons. In addition to his interest in art, the young Beucker developed a passion for flying. He can be trained as a glider pilot in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area.
He attended the Hindenburg School and got his Abitur there in 1928. His first sculptures also date from this time.
Beucker first learned from a stonemason and from Easter 1928 studied for two semesters at the Cologne factory school . Here he learns to carve stones and cast bronze. In addition, he also attends anatomy lectures given by the doctors at Cologne University. Even if he is not officially enrolled there as a student, the teachers accept him as a “black listener”.
In 1929 Beucker received a scholarship for motorized aviation. He breaks off his studies at the factory school and goes to Berlin. In the same year he met the sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877–1947) there, an encounter that left his mark. An intimate friendship developed between the respected sculptor and the talented artist.
In January 1930 Beucker returned to Düsseldorf to work for a stonemason.
In March 1932, following a call from his friend Kolbe, Beucker went back to Berlin, where he rented his first small studio across from the Schiller Theater. From 1936 he studied at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts in the master class for sculpture with Richard Scheibe .
In 1937 Beucker met his future wife, the actress Eva Rühle (1913–2008). The two married in 1938 in Berlin-Charlottenburg and in church in the Heilandskirche in Potsdam-Sacrow .
Beucker was a soldier from 1941 and spent two years in Soviet captivity until 1947. “During the time of my imprisonment I was employed as a piano teacher, house painter, boy, carpenter, painter, carpenter, bricklayer, plasterer, model carver, farmer, piano tuner, roofer and handyman. In the camp I built several stages, designed, painted and produced backdrops, made poems, played roles, wrote and staged plays and gave a few lectures. "(Ivo Beucker)
At the end of December 1947, he returned to Düsseldorf to live with his parents, his wife and children Jens (born 1939) and Doris (born 1945). Beucker had not been able to experience the birth of his daughter and saw her for the first time at the age of two.
Beucker set up his studio in the garden of his parents' house in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel .
From 1950 he became a partner in his father's heating and ventilation company, which he took over entirely in 1955.
Beucker becomes a member of the board of the “ Künstlerverein Malkasten ” in Düsseldorf and is very committed to the cultural life of his hometown.
Ivo Beucker dies unexpectedly on December 17, 1965 at the age of 56 in his home in Düsseldorf. He is buried on December 22nd in the cemetery in Düsseldorf- Heerdt .
In 1979 the city of Düsseldorf honored the artist with its own street, Ivo-Beucker-Straße in the Grafenberg district .
Awards
On May 26, 1938, the city of Düsseldorf awarded him the Cornelius Prize of the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf for the figure “young man” at the fountain at the Hindenburg School, Beucker's former high school . Ivo Beucker and his wife Eva found out about this honor by telegram on their honeymoon in Italy.
In 1952 Beucker was awarded the Georg Kolbe Prize in Berlin.
Works
The creative all-rounder Ivo Beucker was a trained sculptor, but his entire oeuvre also includes drawings, lithographs, wood prints, watercolors, poems, fairy tales, plays, and even some short films.
The following list shows a selection of Ivo Beucker's sculptures:
- Large knee end , 1937, bronze. Municipal Museum Hagen
- Fountain at the Hindenburg School , 1938, bronze. today Humboldt-Gymnasium, Düsseldorf
- Heine badge , 1952, bronze. Napoleonsberg in the Hofgarten, Düsseldorf
- Heine Memorial , 1952, Stein. Napoleonsberg in the Hofgarten, Düsseldorf (with sculpture by Aristide Maillol )
- Holderlin Memorial , 1953, bronze. Hölderlin Museum (outside in front of the Hölderlin Tower ), Tübingen
- Portrait Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , 1954, bronze. Foyer of the Düsseldorf Opera House
- Relief Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , 1954, bronze. Alte Leipziger Versicherung, Düsseldorf
- Heads of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , 1954, Stein. Reconstruction of the busts in the Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf in September 2009
- Honor roll , 1954, bronze. Entrance area of the Humboldt-Gymnasium, Düsseldorf
- Portrait Theodor Fliedner , 1958, bronze. Gardens across from the Kaiserpfalz, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
- Portrait of Dr. Peter Esser , 1962, bronze. Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
- Fountain , 1962, bronze. Max Planck Institute, Düsseldorf
- Reading boy , 1963, bronze. Humboldt-Gymnasium, Düsseldorf
- Portrait of Agnes Miegel , 1964, bronze. Agnes Miegel School, Düsseldorf
- Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , 1965, bronze. Jacobi-Zimmer, artists' association Malkasten , Düsseldorf
- Portrait Stefan Kobold , 1962, bronze. Privately owned
literature
- Georg Kolbe: On the way of art. Writings, sketches, sculptures. Introduction by Ivo Beucker. Lemmer publishing house, Berlin 1949.
- Ivo Beucker: Fairy tale edition for the 100th birthday of the sculptor (Ed. By Doris Beucker-Tönnes). Verlag Edition pk, Düsseldorf June 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028152-5
Web links
source
- Ivo Beucker: personal notes, privately owned
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beucker, Ivo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1965 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |