Jürgen Weber (sculptor)

Jürgen Weber (born January 14, 1928 in Münster ; † June 16, 2007 at the Pou d'es Lleó in Ibiza ) was a German sculptor . His works are committed to the style of realism .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a bronze caster , he began studying medicine, art history and sculpture at the Stuttgart Art Academy (together with Ernst Steinacker ). In 1960 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo Rome. From 1961 until his retirement in 1996 he was a professor at the TU Braunschweig on the chair for elementary forms in the architecture department. In addition to his teaching activities, he created a. a. a number of well-known sculptures, mainly made of bronze and stone .

In addition to his works of art, his divorce in particular caused a nationwide stir in the 1980s, as the value of his unsold sculptures and graphics that were created during his first marriage, according to the will of the West Berliner Bank, for the debts of the deceased and long ago ex-wife divorced from him should arise.

Works (selection)

Portal St. Jacobi Church , Hamburg
Northwest Gate , Collegiate Church , Stuttgart (1957)
Mission gate , collegiate church , Stuttgart (1958)
Portal of the St. Michael Castle Church (Pforzheim) (1959)

Descent from the Cross (altar group), pulpit, baptismal bowl and Easter candlestick of the Church of Reconciliation (Wolfenbüttel) (1963–1964)

War and Peace and America, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , Washington, DC (1966–1971)

The first step, Wolfsburg City Hospital in Wolfsburg (1967)

Bronze sculpture The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus (approx. 1970) in Göttingen, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

Dionysus , sculpture Braunschweig (1973)

Ringerbrunnen, Braunschweig (1974–1975)

The Great Refusal, Braunschweig (1975)

Town hall portal, Göttingen

Bronze baptismal font cover in the Church of the Redeemer in Eichstätt (1977)

Hans-Sachs-Brunnen, called the Ehekarussell , in Nuremberg (1977–1981)

Ship of Fools , Hameln and Nuremberg

Crucifix , Bugenhagenkirche Braunschweig

Tree of Life Crucifix in Magdeburg Cathedral (1988–1989)

Georgs-Brunnen, Burglengenfeld (1995)

Tower of Work , Salzgitter -Lebenstedt (1989–1995)

Crucifix of the Friedenskirche in Arnum (1991)

Fountain with history column , Koblenz (2000)

2000 years of Christianity , Braunschweig (2006)

Crucifix in the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Hamburg-St. George

Factory gallery

Ship of Fools in Nuremberg, bronze sculpture
Ringer fountain in Braunschweig
The great refusal in Braunschweig
St. George , portal sculpture, Market Church Hanover
City fountain in Burglengenfeld
2000 years of Christianity in Braunschweig

literature

Jürgen Weber: The Ship of Fools. Art without a compass. (Autobiography). Universitas Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-8004-1311-6 .
Jürgen Weber: Shape, movement, color: Art and clear thinking. Henschelverlag Kunst u. Society, Berlin 1976.
Jürgen Weber: incapacitation of artists. History and functioning of the bourgeois art institutions. PRV Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-760-91166-8 .
Catalog of the University of Bayreuth: The sculptor Jürgen Weber. Art in the old castle, 1978/79, 90 pp.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Weber - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Jasper: The human comedy in full force - On the death of the controversial Braunschweiger sculptor Jürgen Weber - The creator of the Christianity column , Braunschweiger Zeitung, June 2007 ( reference ).
↑ Der Spiegel: Satyr and Nymph - Judges will soon decide when a husband has to take responsibility for the debts of his deceased ex-wife , March 24, 1986 ( reference ).
↑ The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster
DATE OF DEATH	June 16, 2007
Place of death	Pou d'es Lleo, Ibiza

[1] Martin Jasper: The human comedy in full force - On the death of the controversial Braunschweiger sculptor Jürgen Weber - The creator of the Christianity column , Braunschweiger Zeitung, June 2007 ( reference ).

[2] Der Spiegel: Satyr and Nymph - Judges will soon decide when a husband has to take responsibility for the debts of his deceased ex-wife , March 24, 1986 ( reference ).

[3] The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus