Jan Meyer-Rogge

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Great Gate (1984), Marl

Jan Meyer-Rogge (* 1935 in Hamburg ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Meyer-Rogge studied painting from 1955 to 1958 with Karl Kluth at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . From 1959 to 1963 he went on study trips to cities such as Amsterdam , Berlin , Florence and Madrid . Meyer-Rogge worked as a sculptor from 1964.

In 1981 Meyer-Rogge was awarded the Edwin Scharff Prize of the Hamburg Senate , which has been awarded since 1955 to artists whose works shape the cultural life of the city of Hamburg; However, he returned it in 1982 for reasons of cultural policy. A scholarship took him to Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano in 1984 . The Edwin Scharff Prize was awarded to him again in 1987.

Meyer-Rogge has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1972 and a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 2013 , where he also lives and works.

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“(...) these works (...) represent a kind of free analogy to architecture. How this is based on the relationship between carrying and loads, Meyer-Rogge brings his works to the point where falling and holding come into play Balance: no feats and no experiments, but the realization of a harmony of freedom and bond. Because just as each part develops its energy only in the structure of the whole, the whole only exists as a structure in which each part is necessary and equal. "

- Hanna Hohl

“The vocabulary is deliberately reduced to the simplest forms: steel rods, steel rollers, forged steel rings, small and large steel angles, geometric shapes that are divided, placed on top of each other, pushed into each other, tilted, touching each other at points and supporting each other, so new constructions and architectural ones Creating structures. The original starting conditions are not hidden or suppressed by the new circumstances. These sculptures reveal their conditions and the process of their creation without restriction; it is only from this unconditionality that they gain their strength and tension. "

- Lothar Romain

Meyer-Rogge mainly works in steel and wood. His works belong to minimalist art and land art .

Working in public space (selection)

  • 1975: Dreiklang - Stahl , Hamburg University of Music
  • 1977: Pyramid - Wood, Neuenkirchen
  • 1978: A letter: from the sawmill back into the countryside - wood, Neuenkirchen
  • 1978: Raised trunk - wood, Weser dike in Bremen - now part of the Springhornhof art landscape in Neuenkirchen
  • 1979: Freiburg Plastic - Wood, Freiburg Art Association in Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1983: The fallen trunk - Holz, Hamburg (lost)
  • 1984: Large gate - wood, collection in public space, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten in Marl
  • 1986: Double gate - wood, Billebogen Sculpture Park in Hamburg
  • 1986: Double gate - wood, Buchholz in the north heath
  • 1987/96: In the horizon - steel
  • 1991: Ebb and flow - steel, Weser promenade Osterdeich in Bremen
  • 1992: Doppelkreuz - Holz, Gartow
  • 1995: Doppelwinkel - Stahl, Bückeburg
  • 1996: Gate of the Winds - Stahl, Niebüll
  • 1996: Tide XXVI - steel
  • 1997: Double angle - steel, Feithstr in Hagen
  • 2002: Rondo - Stahl, Wiligrad Castle Sculpture Park near Schwerin
  • 2004: Everything holds because everything falls - Steel, Outdoor Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN. United States
  • 2010: At the point of equilibrium - bronze, Stadtpark Niebüll
  • 2017: The moment of equilibrium - steel, Ortlieb Spannsysteme Zell under Aichelberg

Images (selection)

  • Dreiklang , (1975), University of Music and Theater, Hamburg

  • Raised trunk , (1978), Neuenkirchen

  • The fallen trunk , (1983), Hamburg State and University Library

  • Great Gate , (1984), Wilhelmshaven, later Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl

  • Double gate , (1986), Buchholz idN

  • Between ebb and flow , (1991), Bremen Werder, later on Osterdeich

  • Tor im Winde , (1996), Niebüll Rathausplatz

  • Doppelwinkel , (1997), Fernuniversität Hagen

  • Rondo , (2002), Wiligrad Castle Sculpture Park

  • Everything holds because everything falls , (2004), Chattanooga, TN, USA

  • In the point of equilibrium , (2010), Stadtpark Niebüll

  • Moment of balance , (2017), Zell unter Aichelberg

literature

  • Jan Meyer-Rogge - Architecture of Balance. Ed. Ulrike Schick, Museum of Subject-Free Art, 2011, Otterndorf, Snoeck Verlag, Cologne, 2011 ISBN 978-3-940953-86-5 (catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from April 3 to June 12, 2011, with contributions from Uwe M. Schneede and Lothar Romain )
  • Jan Meyer-Rogge - Balance of Power. Plastic works 1977 - 1994. Ed. Michael Fehr, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 1994 ISBN 3-928342-37-1 (exhibition catalog, with contributions by Gerhard Auer, Max Imdahl, Hanna Hohl)
  • Jan Meyer-Rogge - sculptural works 1984 - 1988. Ed. Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Edition Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 1988 ISBN 3-87909-202-8 (exhibition catalog)
  • Still water. Plastic works by Jan Meyer-Rogge. Museum Bochum Art Collection, Bochum, 1980 ISBN 3-8093-0056-X (catalog on the occasion of the exhibition from August 16 to September 21, 1980)

Web links

Commons : Jan Meyer-Rogge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Jan Meyer-Rogge
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "M" / Jan Meyer-Rogge (accessed on November 17, 2015)
  3. ↑ In: Viewpoints. Jan Meyer-Rogge. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1984, p. 5f. Catalog for the exhibition in the Hamburger Kunsthalle from November 3 to December 2, 1984
  4. ^ In: Jan Meyer-Rogge. Sculptures. Speech at the opening of the exhibition of the same name in the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, on April 4, 2003. In: Jan Meyer-Rogge, catalog raisonné 1968 - 2002. New Folkwang-Verlag in the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Rogge, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg