Jürgen Schieferdecker

Jürgen Schieferdecker (born November 23, 1937 in Meerane ; † December 3, 2018 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and object artist, as well as an architect and university professor .

Life

Designed by him: Memorial for professors of the TU Dresden on the Old Annenfriedhof (1983)

The integrating sphere (1984)

Schieferdecker studied architecture from 1955 to 1962 with Karl-Heinz Adler and Georg Nerlich, among others, at the Technical University of Dresden and then worked there as a research assistant for the architect Bernhard Klemm . In 1975 he became an assistant in the architecture section of the TU Dresden and in 1993 took over the extraordinary professorship for art teaching at the Institute for Fundamentals of Design and Representation at the faculty of the TU Dresden. He headed the artistic advisory board of the university and became chairman of the Dresden Artists' Association in 1994 and Senator for Culture of the Free State of Saxony in 2001. Schieferdecker was also artistically connected to the TU Dresden. He designed the logo of the TU Dresden, the integrating sphere on the university campus and a memorial stele for the university. The design of the TU memorial on the Old Annenfriedhof also goes back to him .

Schieferdecker created political graphics, assemblages and collages as early as the 1960s , which were exhibited in Havana and Tokyo, among other places. His works showed “the deformation of Marxist thought and the simultaneous denigration of alternative approaches” and were dedicated to the surveillance state of the GDR, whereby his works “left nothing to be desired in terms of clarity.” In addition to politically critical works, he also sat down with the artistic modernism of 20th century apart. He has received many international awards, which not least gave him protection from party and cultural officials in the GDR.

In 1983 the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett bought the entire printmaking it had created. Extensive collections of works by Schieferdecker are owned by the Dresden State Art Collections, the Dresden City Gallery, the Meerane Museum, the New Saxon Gallery in Chemnitz and the Brandenburg Art Collections in Cottbus .

Jürgen Schieferdecker lived in Dresden since 1955 and was married to Marita Schieferdecker-Adolph, the former commissioner for foreigners of the city of Dresden . His nephew was Uwe Schieferdecker , who works as an author and urban planner in Dresden and Berlin. He died in December 2018 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Work (selection)

Architecture and commercial art

Logo of the TU Dresden based on a design by Jürgen Schieferdecker (1990)

• 1967–1968: Schmalkalden crematorium (with Bernhard Klemm)
• 1968–1975: Vogtshof boarding school in Görlitz (with Bernhard Klemm)
• 1983: TU Dresden memorial on the Old Annenfriedhof
• 1990: Design of the TU Dresden logo

(Object) art

• 1965: "The desire to travel"
• 1965: "The Hour of the Minotaur"
• 1965: "Fleeting vision of peace in the evening"
• 1966: "The Thousand Year Reich or The Chickens and the Egg"
• 1966/1967: "The life of the philosophers or emigration of a saint"
• 1967: "Suliko or The Dictator in the Evening"
• 1967 ?: “The Mona Lisa's Smile or Can Hope Fail?” Art Collections Cottbus
• 1978: "Beuys makes light" (photo lithography)
• 1983: Assemblage "Dresdner Menetekel", Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister
• 1984: The integrating sphere (metal sculpture), large version of the miniature "Elefant Celebes"
• 1987: "The homecoming of the elephant Celebes (for Max Ernst)", assemblage, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden based on Max Ernst's painting " Celebes "
• 1989: TU stele (metal sculpture and mobile)
• 1996/1997: Möllner Brett (room installation)
• 1999: resting pillow (room installation)

Awards

• 1979: Prize of the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo for the photo-lithography "Beuys makes light"
• 1981: Award of the II. European Biennale Baden-Baden
• 1986: Medal “Artists against War” at the first Lublin / Majdanek Triennial
• 2018: Art Prize of the State Capital Dresden

literature

• Slater, Jürgen. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 825/826

• Slater, Jürgen . In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 832–833 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Lothar Lang : Painting and graphics in the GDR. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1983; P. 206 and a.

Web links

• Overview of exhibitions and photos of graphics by Jürgen Schieferdecker
• Literature by and about Jürgen Schieferdecker in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dpa: ++ artist Jürgen Schieferdecker died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 4, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 .  .
2. ↑ TU Dresden mourns the loss of Prof. Jürgen Schieferdecker . Press release, December 4, 2018.
3. ↑ Mathias Bäumel: Logo? Probably not so logical ... . In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal , 14th year, No. 2, 2003, p. 3 ( online as PDF ; 0.8 MB).
4. ↑ Jürgen Schieferdecker: Continued interference. Pictures of contemporary history . Foyer exhibition of the Leipzig Contemporary History Forum 2008.
5. ↑ M. Bäumel, R. Tetzlaff: Signs into the time . In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal , 13th year, No. 20, 2002, p. 9 ( online as PDF ; 0.7 MB).
6. ↑ On the death of Jürgen schieferdecker . In: Dresden Official Gazette , No. 50, 2018, p. 8.
7. ↑ Death Prof. Jürgen Slater on sz-trauer.de, accessed on 20 December 2018th
8. ↑ The homecoming of the elephant Celebes (for Max Ernst) ( Memento of the original from December 8, 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. , Dresden State Art Collections, accessed on April 24, 2012