Johannes Peschel
Johannes Peschel (* 1931 in Kamenz ) is a Saxon sculptor. Peschel learned the profession of stonemason. From 1953 to 1958 he studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . Peschel has been working as a freelance artist in Dresden since 1959 . He is married to the Dresden artist Eva Peschel .
Works
Peschel's work ranges from small sculptures to large-format objects. A focus of his work are architecture-related works of art and monument conservation work. He was involved with Vinzenz Wanitschke in the restoration of the altar of the Dresden Frauenkirche .
Dresden
In 1955, Peschel and Vinzenz Wanitschke created keystones on the Young Guard building in the Great Garden . He designed the Ernst Thälmann Memorial for Ernst Thälmann's 100th birthday on today's Strehlener Platz. In 1964 a bronze sculpture by the artist was placed in front of the main entrance of today's Marie-Curie-Gymnasium on Zirkusstraße. A teacher and a student are shown in polytechnic lessons . In front of the primary school at Terrassenufer 18 is a bronze sculpture created in 1965, depicting Kattrin , the drumming mute, from Bertolt Brecht's work Mother Courage and Her Children . Peschel was also involved in designing the tourist garden behind the hotels on Prager Strasse . However, his bronze sculpture Reading Girl from 1969 is currently removed. The cement block on the Press House, designed in 1975, comes from Peschel .
A memorial stele by Peschel from 1975 commemorates the Mathildenstrasse detention center in Dresden . It stands at the former location of the court - erected until 2009 on the corner of Pillnitzer Strasse and Rechtsstrasse, it was moved on August 4, 2009 due to pipeline work at the confluence of Rietschelstrasse and the corner of Pillnitzer Strasse. The memorial consists of a triangular sandstone stele with concrete tape panels.
On the Neustädter Elbe bank on the garden wall of the Hotel Bellevue is a sandstone sculpture, created in 1985/1986 as a Baroque adaptation "Woman with Satyr".
Other places
In Cottbus in 1976 Peschel designed the relief Everything for the good of the people on the area of the textile combine . and in 1987 the sculpture of a Sorbian legendary figure, the Aquarius .
In May 1998, four sculptures based on Lessing's fables, which Peschel created together with his wife Eva, were unveiled in the park at the Lessing Museum in Kamenz .
The dancing bear
The raven and the fox
The lion and the hare
The oak and the pig
Awards
1987 Art Prize of the GDR
literature
- Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.
- Antje Kirsch, Sylvia Lemke: Production cooperative Kunst am Bau Dresden 1958–1990, catalog for the 2011 exhibition
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marion Kutter: Lessing at the turn of the millennium: retrospectives and prospects . Lessing-Museum, Kamenz 2001, p. 125.
- ^ Exhibition Art in Prohlis , Quartiersmanagement Prohlis, accessed on February 15, 2015.
- ↑ Denni Klein: memorial for Nazi prisoners moved . In: Sächsische Zeitung, August 5, 2009, p. 17.
- ↑ Peggy Kompalla: Where the GDR lives on in Cottbus - Bad condition of some monuments. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , February 5, 2016 ( Status 2016 ( memento of the original from February 9, 2016 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 . ).
- ^ GDR Art Prize 1987 was awarded , In: Neues Deutschland , May 21, 1987, p. 6.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peschel, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenz |