Jürgen Raue

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Jürgen Raue (born November 17, 1939 in Dresden , † July 7, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Jürgen Raue's father was a painter; he fell victim to the Second World War as a Wehrmacht soldier . The memory of this event and the destruction of the city of Dresden and its consequences had an impact on the young Raue's awareness. In 1953 he began an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor , which he successfully completed in 1957. Then he took part in the reconstruction of the Dresden Zwinger . From 1957 he studied with Heinrich Drake and Waldemar Grzimek at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . From 1964 he worked for Theo Balden for several years . From then on he worked as a freelancer. Raue was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). Raue was married to Anne-Katrin. They had three sons together.

Monument "Liberation"

Monument The Liberation , from the city center to the old cemetery

In 1968, the design of his sculpture Liberation submitted by Raue for the city of Greiz was accepted by the jury entrusted with choosing between three artist proposals. It depicts an Allied soldier who, with a powerful gesture, enables a slave laborer to exit his bondage to freedom. Raue worked on this order for three years, first on an intermediate size, of which there are several casts, and finally on the four meter high final version. 1971 this bronze sculpture was liberation situated at the entrance to the town park of Greiz and inaugurated. Intermediate sizes and casts of it found their place in various museums, including in the USSR . A smaller version was given to the memorial in Oświęcim by the GDR government . In 2006, the Greiz city council decided to remove the memorial and place it in a cemetery that is no longer in use.

In 1989, due to a new memorial conception, along with other works by Eastern European artists, the small version of the liberation was removed from the Auschwitz memorial and transferred to the Beeskow art archive . On the initiative of the “ Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity ” and with the support of young people from the “Liberation Working Group”, the work was exhibited on the grounds of the alternative youth center “Freiland” in Potsdam . The inauguration ceremony took place on Liberation Day 2013.

Sculptures (selection)

  • 1969/1970 liberation , tinted plaster
  • 1974: Man and the machine , relief
  • 1989: Thomas Müntzer , monument as a bronze sculpture and stone cube with a relief depicting the victims of the Peasant War

Exhibitions

  • 1969: District art exhibition in Gera
  • 1973, 1980 and 1982: “Plastic and Flowers” ​​in Berlin
  • 1975 "Linked in friendship" in Berlin
  • 1981: Art exhibition 25 years NVA in Dresden
  • 1985: “On common paths” in Berlin
  • 1987: Art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden
  • 1989: District art exhibition in Berlin

Honors

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Raue  - Collection of Images

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon Artists in the GDR - a project of the Society for the Protection of Citizenship and Human Dignity e. V. New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 745.
  2. ↑ Winfried Arenhövel: Greiz: the pearl of the Vogtland. Sutton, Erfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3-89702-700-8 , p. 18; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Review of the old park entrance in 2006. greizer-park.de , accessed on December 29, 2017
  4. ^ Society for the protection of civil rights and human dignity (ed.): Liberation. A monument report. Berlin 2014.
  5. ↑ Marco Zschieck: New sculpture on the open-air site: Commemoration of the day of liberation. In: Potsdam Latest News , May 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ Maria Michel: That remains. In: Ossietzky , 19/2015
personal data
SURNAME Raue, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2004
Place of death Berlin