Karl-Heinz Krause

The Thinker (1961), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Archimedes from 1962, Unter den Eichen 87, Berlin-Lichterfelde

Karl-Heinz Krause (born June 25, 1924 in Angermünde ; † July 28, 2019 in Mainz ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After surviving the war and imprisonment, he began his studies in 1947 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Heinrich Ilgenfritz , where he learned graphic techniques. After moving to the third dimension in 1948 without taking an entrance exam to the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg, he became a student of Maximilian Debus and Oskar Bangemann . In the master class he dealt intensively with the work and suggestions of his teachers Renée Sintenis and Richard Scheibe and very soon found his own way of sculpting. After completing his studies in 1954, he settled in Berlin as a freelance sculptor and received the Georg Kolbe Prize of the city of Berlin five years later by Richard Scheibe.

Building on the principle of the aesthetic representation of the human body and retaining it in its movements, postures and moods, Krause always combined the representation of the body with the factual component of geometry as a basic form, or with the laws of physics (weight - counterweight or load - Support) as a shaping criterion. With this he achieved the characteristic balance and harmony in the charisma of his work.

In 1961 he designed four bronze gates for the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. In 1965 Krause moved to Mainz. In 1978 the Landesmuseum in Mainz acquired the life-size Parisian torso.

On the occasion of her visit in 1982, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands received a sculpture ("Aurelia", catalog raisonné 184) by Karl-Heinz Krause from Federal President Karl Carstens .

In 1987 the sculptor was guest of honor at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome. Several stays in the Villa Romana in Florence followed.

Karl-Heinz Krause had many solo exhibitions in different cities in Germany and abroad such as B. Basel, Bern, New York, New Delhi (relief in the German embassy), Paris (fountain sculpture in the German cultural institute), Antwerp, Stockholm and Helsinki.

He was born as the fourth child of Hermann and Ernestine Krause. He was married to Ursula Krause-Oehme since 1960.

Works

The Firebird on the banks of the Rhine in Mainz in 1970
Archimedes
Sitting Saxonia
Artists , Behring Hospital Berlin 1963
elegy
The Thinker , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 1966
Solveig , New National Gallery Berlin
Paris torso , Landesmuseum Mainz
ET IN ARCADIA EGO (relief)
Thinker , Bertha von Suttner School Berlin 1960 (catalog raisonné 41)
Fliegender Merkur , in the Disconto-Bank in Berlin 1967
The gates at the Gutenberg Museum in 1962
The Daphne as a prize from the Berlin Theater Association since 1976

Web links

Commons : Karl-Heinz Krause - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Jacobs: Obituary notice Mainz sculptor Karl-Heinz Krause has died. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , August 26, 2019. Retrieved on August 26, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Krause, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 25, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Angermünde
DATE OF DEATH	28th July 2019
Place of death	Mainz

[1] Michael Jacobs: Obituary notice Mainz sculptor Karl-Heinz Krause has died. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , August 26, 2019. Retrieved on August 26, 2019.