Karl-Günter Möpert
Karl-Günter Möpert (born December 5, 1933 in Dresden ; † September 4, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Möpert completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor in Dresden from 1948 to 1951. He moved to Berlin and worked there in the state museums . After that he worked as a freelance artist and trained in sculpture with Fritz Cremer , Waldemar Grzimek and Wieland Förster . From 1964 to 1969 he attended the master school for stone sculptors in Berlin.
Since 1980 he has organized the sculpture symposium in Reinhardtsdorf in Saxon Switzerland on a regular basis . For many years, sculptors from home and abroad met in the quarries there to exchange experiences and work together. In 1986 he received the Berlin Prize for promoting contemporary socialist work.
From 1962 to 1990 Möpert was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and a founding member in 1990 and then until 1993 spokesman for the Free Art Association in Berlin. From 1993 he was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin and from 1995 a member of the New Saxon Art Association . Möpert lived in Berlin-Mahlsdorf . His grave is in the Kaulsdorf cemetery .
Works (selection)
- 1965: Girls , bronze, Lichtenberg City Park , Kielblockstrasse
- 1974: Stele of Friendship of Nations, sandstone, Magdeburg , Schleinufer
- 1974: Female nude , sandstone, Magdeburg, Schleinufer
- 1981: Mother and child (with Theo Balden ), Frankfurt (Oder) , Thomas-Müntzer-Hof
- 1982: Washerwoman , sandstone, Berlin-Köpenick , Müggelheimer Strasse, Frauentog green area
- 1983: Music (with Christa Collector ), Sandstein, Berlin-Weißensee , Bizetstraße 27
- 1983: Spring fountain with sandstone sculpture , Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , unnamed town square between Robert-Uhrig-Straße / Massower Straße
- 1983: The four temperaments (fountain), sandstone, Berlin-Mahlsdorf , Hönower Straße , at the S-Bahn station
- 1985/87: Pan , bronze, Frankfurt (Oder) , Karl-Marx-Straße
- 1987: View out of the window , sandstone, Berlin-Karlshorst , Hönower Straße
- 1989: Dreaming , Sandstone, Berlin-Marzahn, Parsteiner Ring, Ahrensfelder Berge green area
- 1990: Pan , Sandstein, Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , Alfred-Kowalke-Straße
- 1991: House entrance sign (with Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas ), sandstone, Berlin-Hellersdorf , Zossener Strasse
- 1995: Kneeling , artificial stone / shell limestone, Berlin-Karlshorst, Ehrenfelsstrasse / Ingelheimer Strasse (revision of the sculpture by Karl Trumpf )
Girl (1965)
Washerwoman (1982)
Spring Well (1983)
Looking out the Window (1987)
Pan (1990)
House entrance sign (1991)
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Web links
- Farewell to the creator of the monument “For the builders of Marzahn” - Mahlsdorf sculptor Karl-Günter Möpert died at the age of 81 . Obituary at www.berlin.de, September 23, 2014
- Thomas Loy: Dispute over the Marzahn monument - the long shadow of the GDR , report on the dispute over the bronze sculpture "For the builders of Marzahn", according to which the actual creator is Karl Hillert and Möpert was only involved in it, in: Der Tagesspiegel , July 30, 2018 , online at tagesspiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goethe Prize awarded. In: Berliner Zeitung , 4./5. October 1986, p. 10
- ↑ Monika Arnold: A sandstone egg that inspires the imagination ( memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Berliner Morgenpost , 2014.
- ^ Sylva Brösicke-Istok: Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Hellersdorf district . Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, Berlin 1993, p. 11
- ^ Artworks in a new location . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 21, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möpert, Karl-Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |