Josef Tabachnyk
Josef Tabachnyk (born July 15, 1947 in Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is an artist living in Nuremberg who specializes in bronze figures of people and animals as well as abstract sculptures . His best-known works include Knut the Dreamer , the Willy Brandt Monument , a statue of Adolf Dassler and memorials to the war victims in Saint Petersburg , Zhytomyr, Novohrad-Wolynskyj and Slovetschne .
Career
Tabachnyk was born in Ukraine. From 1970 to 1976 he studied at the University of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in what was then Leningrad . In 1997 he moved with his family to Germany and has lived in Nuremberg ever since.
Works in public space
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Before moving to Germany, Tabachnyk had already created a number of monuments in Ukraine . In 1996 the monument to the victims of the tragedy in the forest of Bogunija , in which prisoners of war and civilians were shot in the Second World War , was erected in his native town of Zhytomyr . It combines a 6.5 meter high monument of granite with a figure from bronze . In 1995, in Novohrad-Wolynskyj , the memorial for the victims of fascism was erected on the mass grave of Jews shot in World War II . Tabachnyk used granite as a material, just like for the memorial for the villages in Slovetschne that burned down in the Kopyschtsche tragedy in 1980. He made the sculpture from 1989 in the recreation park in Zhytomyr from the fairy tale The Magic Horse from cement .
In May 2006, a life-size sculpture of Adolf Dassler , the founder of the Adidas company , created by Tabachnyk was erected on the site of the Adi Dassler Stadium in Herzogenaurach .
In 2008 Tabachnyk won the competition to design the Willy Brandt monument in Nuremberg . The bronze sculpture on Willy-Brandt-Platz, which shows the Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate sitting on a bench, was unveiled on November 9, 2009 in the presence of Nuremberg's Mayor Ulrich Maly , Josef Tabachnyk and Brandt's companions such as Hans-Jochen Vogel .
The artist's bronze sculpture Polar Bear Group has been on view in the aquapark of the Nuremberg zoo since May 11, 2007 . It shows a life-size polar bear mother with her cub in a playful pose.
Another bear sculpture, which was set up in the entrance area of the zoo in Nuremberg in November 2010, is entitled Brown Bear with a Snail and depicts a small brown bear lying on its back playing with a snail .
The bronze sculpture Tree of Life has been in the living monastery at the Tiergarten in Nuremberg since November 2012 . The different generations that play a role in a life cycle and their meaning are indicated in the elements of the tree.
After an artist competition held at the end of 2011, the monument Knut the dreamer for the polar bear Knut was erected in the Berlin Zoological Garden based on Tabachnyk's design . It consists of a polar bear cast in bronze lying on two ice floes formed from white granite . On October 24, 2012, zoo director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz and Josef Tabachnyk unveiled the 1.40 meter long and 1.15 meter wide figure next to the polar bear enclosure.
The kicker Statue Tabachnyks that a football player when running a overhead kick is, was the May 22, 2014 the newly designed building Kicker sports magazine revealed in the Badstraße in Nuremberg.
Since December 2016, another example of the life-size bronze statue of Adidas founder Adi Dassler has been in the world's largest Adidas store in New York City, which was newly opened at the time, and since January 2019 another original of the statue has been at the entrance of the Adidas store on Avenue des Champs -Élysées in Paris .
Other works
Josef Tabachnyk created the series of sculptures Small Monuments for tall people , including Albert Einstein , Jakob Wassermann , Hermann Kesten and Sigmund Freud . He is also working on a series that includes animal sculptures.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry at the University of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St.Petersburg
- ^ The Russian State Literary and Art Archive
- ^ National Union of Artists of Ukraine ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Tree of Life is in constant bloom, Nürnberger Nachrichten, November 6, 2012, page 25
- ↑ Knut the polar bear receives a memorial
- ↑ Jens Twiehaus: The dreaming Knut - monument of the polar bear unveiled. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. October 24, 2012, accessed October 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Germany: A Bear Will Dream in bronze. In: New York Times. January 24, 2012, accessed March 20, 2014 .
- ↑ The bear side of the coin. In: Berliner Kurier. February 7, 2012, accessed March 20, 2014 .
- ^ Where the Clothes Do Most of the Work . New York Times, January 16, 2017.
- ↑ Adidas sculpture at 22 Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Foursquare.com, March 28, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tabachnyk, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |