Joachim Liebscher

Joachim Liebscher (born December 22, 1926 in Großschönau , Saxony , † April 22, 1994 in Waltersdorf ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Joachim Liebscher was born in Großschönau, a farming and weaving village in Upper Lusatia , as the only child of machine fitter Heinrich Max Liebscher and his wife Sophie Frieda, née. Shepherd born. From 1934 to 1942 he attended the local elementary school . Since early childhood he used his talent to grasp things and to reproduce them in pictures and sculptures. From 1942 to 1944 he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in the Guido Herrmann machine factory in Großschönau. He learned the craft of steel processing and shaping and discovered metal as a design tool for his later artistic work.

On June 12, 1944, he was called up to serve in the Wehrmacht for Flieger Ersatzbataillon VII in Kaufbeuren , and on September 11, 1944, he was admitted to the reserve hospital in Kempten (Allgäu) , seriously wounded . In 1946 Joachim Liebscher began a two-year training course as a technical draftsman at the Zittau craft and trade school. From 1946 to 1947 he was instructed in drawing, technical drawing, stylistics and modeling by Adolf Schorisch , the director of the school. The first watercolors were created . Liebscher only worked for a short time as a technical draftsman. In 1947 and 1948 the first exhibitions and sales of his artistic work followed. In 1950 he did a three-month internship in the stonemason company Hugo Mühle with the owner Bernhard Dünnbier in Großschönau.

From 1952 to 1954 Liebscher headed the folk art cabinet in Görlitz. He gave lectures, led studio talks and discussions, went to companies, institutions and schools to arouse interest and understanding for art. In 1955 he was delegated to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts to study . He studied with Walter Arnold until 1960 . Study trips took him to Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and the Soviet Union.

1961 began his freelance work in Waltersdorf. Works such as the German-Polish friendship relief were created between 1960 and 1965 through works contracts with large companies in Hirschfelde . During this time he also created the first version of the Beethoven portrait for the Zittau City Theater. A works contract with VEB Robur-Werk Zittau followed from 1965 to 1967. During this time he created sculptures for the districts of Zittau and Görlitz. From this creative period, the group sculpture Girl with Calf for a school in the miners' settlement in Schönau-Berzdorf and the memorial in Oybin, the depiction of a boy who symbolizes the ambitious life, are remarkable. In 1965, the portrait sculpture of an officer of the National People's Army was created in close cooperation with the "Ernst Thälmann" officers' college .

On August 7, 1963, he married Ursula Tesche. She was the first critic of his creative activity. Liebscher's most important creative period began in 1968 with the execution of the animal sculpture begging bear for the pedestrian zone in the city center of the chemical city of Schwedt. For the Waldbad Schwedt , the play sculpture walrus was created in 1970 , a 6 meter high water slide, for the surface design of which field stones from the Uckermark were used. Liebscher created further versions of this large sculpture in 1973 as a gift for the Polish partner company of the contracting paper and cardboard factory in Küstrin and in 1978 for the Waldstrandbad Großschönau in his home town. For the outdoor area in front of the Schwedt paper and cardboard factory, he designed the 6-meter-high sculpture Paper in motion made from refined steel. It was with this project that Liebscher's collaboration with the garden architect Erwin Stein from Berlin began. During this time Liebscher also met the architect Christoph Dielitzsch. Together they worked out concepts for the design of the forest pool, the forest sports facility with Liebscher's Olympic fountain and the new residential area and the nearby Schwedt area.

In the 1977 “Best Building” architectural competition, the residential estate, for which Liebscher created enamel design elements, was awarded a prize as an example of aesthetics. In 1974 a fountain was built on the subject of "Energy, Power and Movement" for the outside area of ​​the new administration building of the Zittau Engineering College. In its ground-level trough with a diameter of five meters there are nine 1.5 to 2 meter high water-bearing pipes with attached copper balls Water can be moved. The ensemble is framed by a metal ring with enamelled geometric elements. In 1987 Joachim Liebscher designed the sundial for the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin and the Ernst-Thälmann-Park in Berlin on Prenzlauer Allee, Liebscher's most important work.

Sundial by Joachim Liebscher on the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Joachim Liebscher's flower ball in front of the Prenzlauer Berg tax office

Already in 1972 he devoted himself to interior design. He created numerous everyday objects and plaques from clay, such as the art prize he created for the Upper Lusatian districts of Zittau - Löbau. 1991–1993 Joachim Liebscher entered new artistic territory and directed the videos produced together with Hans-Wolf Ullrich and Lausche Video , Wittstock - Thoughts of a City , Traces in the Märkisches Land , Zittauer Land , Robur - a dynamic symbol of our time , tooth decay is not Child's play and builder - a chance for you!

Joachim Liebscher said of himself: "I want to create something that people need and understand."

Works (selection)

• 1963: bronze sculpture of the girl with the calf
• 1964: Bust of Beethoven portrait for the Stadttheater Zittau
• 1965: Relief German-Polish friendship , artificial stone, Hirschfelde lignite works and Turow mine / Poland Execution: Bernhard Dünnbier, Großschönau
• 1965: "Memorial" in Oybin - a bronze sculpture of a boy standing in front of a rock formation, symbolizing the ambitious life
• 1965: Portrait sculpture officer of the National People's Army (bronze)
• around 1965: Young family , life-size, artificial stone, Seifhennersdorf - new building area
• 1967: Golden ear , gold-plated steel, symbolizing the thousand-year-old village of Jauernick in the Görlitz district
• 1968: Bronze sculpture of young learners in front of the VEB Robur vocational school
• 1968: The fisherman from Kamminke , artificial stone, 3 meter high large sculpture on Usedom
• 1968: Animal sculpture begging bear for the pedestrian zone in the city center of the chemical city Schwedt
• 1970: Play sculpture walrus , Waldbad Schwedt (1973 for Kostrzyn, 1978 for the Waldstrandbad Großschönau)
• 1973/1974: Symbolism of paper in motion , refined steel, VEB paper and cardboard factory Schwedt
• 1975: "Olympiabrunnen", enamel, Schwedt forest sports facility
• 1977: Design elements in enamel for a residential estate in Schwedt
• 1976: Flower ball (enamel / steel), 3 meter high stele with a symbolic representation of life-preserving hands that encircle a flower ball
• 1977: Terrace grilles Berliner Luft (steel / ceramic) as an entrance symbol for the Magistrate of Greater Berlin
• 1977: Flag group and fountain energy, force and movement , enamel and steel, Zittau engineering college
• 1982: overall artistic conception and entrance design in the VEB youth fashion Rostock
• 1983: Design concept and water object in the entrance area, VEB Research Center Microelectronics Dresden, Execution: Naumann Dresden
• 1984: Well of the animals , stoneware, cultural and sports center Wittstock / Dosse
• 1980/1984: Leisure area of ​​the VEB Obertrikotagenwerk in Wittstock a walk-in fountain on the subject of "The joys of water"
• 1987: "Denk-Stein", Syenit, Evangelische Brüder-Unität Herrnhut, execution: Klaus Friebolin, Zittau
• 1987: "Sundial" at the Großplanetarium Berlin, granite and porphyry, execution: Dieter Hebold, Neugersdorf and Gottfried Hocke, Strahwalde
• 1988: Memorial "German Doctors in Spain 1933 - 1939", terrazzo, syenite, cast bronze, NVA - hospital, "Dr. Günther Bodek ”, Ueckermünde, execution: Klaus Friebolin Zittau
• 1989: Symbolic plastic design based on a Hegelian word, granite and polyester, for Leipzig Grünau

Conceptions

• 1972: Design concept, “Jägerstube” of the consumer restaurant “Stadt Zittau”, Spitzkunnersdorf
• 1984: Design concept for the restaurant “Ueckermärkischer Krug”, plant pillars, stoneware
• 1985: Wall design, bas-relief, filled, restaurant in the consumer - department store Berlin Centrum Invest
• 1987: Design concept for the People's Solidarity Club in Seifhennersdorf
• 1989: Design concept for the holiday home “Oybiner Hof”, plastic “Oybiner Mönch”, stoneware
• 1992: Design concept for the retirement home in Seifhennersdorf (Unfortunately, he did not experience the completion and inauguration of the retirement home with its integrated work, it took place in 1995.)

swell

• Information and pictures from the archive in the Folklore and Mill Museum in Waltersdorf
• Video archive Lausche Video Waltersdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prospectus Kraftwerk Hirschfelde, fig. On p. 13 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2007 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.  
2. ^ Website of the city of Schwedt
3. ↑ in-prenzlauer-berg.de ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.