Karl-Heinz Schmäke

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Karl-Heinz Schmäke (born March 27, 1944 in Düsseldorf ) is a German art caster and former university professor .

Life

City survey monument by Bert Gerresheim in Düsseldorf , handcrafted by Karl-Heinz Schmäke.
Nordstern colliery , Gelsenkirchen, headframe of shaft 2 with Herkules by Markus Lüpertz , aluminum casting by Karl-Heinz Schmäke
Caldera by Tony Cragg in Salzburg , cast by Karl-Heinz Schmäke.

Karl-Heinz Schmäke is the third generation to run the Herbert Schmäke art foundry based in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk . The company was founded in 1926 by his grandfather Gustav Schmäke and later continued by his father Herbert Schmäke. Fourth generation family members - Stephan and Kirsten Schmäke - are now involved in running the company.

The foundry made the work of numerous sculptors by hand, under the direction of Karl-Heinz Schmäke, artists such as Juan Muñoz , Tony Cragg (including Caldera ), Karl-Henning Seemann ( dispute ) Bert Gerresheim ( town elevation monument , 1988; Heine bust ; "Mother" -Ey - sculpture ), Per Kirkeby , Markus Lüpertz ( Hercules of Gelsenkirchen , Uranus ), Günther Uecker ( Golden Nail in front of the Kö-Bogen), Eva Hild and AR Penck .

Schmäke taught from 1999 to 2012 as a lecturer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Awards

Publications

  • with Heiner Koch and Heinrich Janssen: Mensch Gottes. Homage to Bert Gerresheim. Kuehlen Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-87448-360-5 .

Others

  • Schmäke is a founding member of the Friends of the Great Carnival Society 1890 Düsseldorf.
  • Schmäke testified in 2017 in connection with transactions between the former art consultant Helge Achenbach and the Albrecht family .

literature

Web links

Commons : Kunstgießerei Schmäke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communications from our society. In: Jan Wellem. Journal for culture and tradition of the Alde Düsseldorfer Bürgergesellschaft from 1920. 89th volume, issue 1, p. 22.
  2. ↑ a b Cooperation with the artists. In: kunstgiesserei-schmaeke.de.
  3. ↑ Helga Meister: Roadblock for Tony Cragg's throat sculpture. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . May 27, 2013.
  4. ^ Eve Sattler: Sculptures argue again. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . October 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ city survey monument | Sculptor: Bert Gerresheim (DE, born 1935), execution: Karl-Heinz Schmäke KG (cast), founder: Düsseldorfer Jonges eV (founded 1932), sponsorship: Düsseldorfer Jonges eV (founded 1932) (TG 04 Schneider Wibbel). In: Europeana . 5th December 2016.
  6. ^ A b Professor title for foundryman Karl-Heinz Schmäke In: Rheinische Post . August 25, 2010.
  7. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Mutter-Ey-Skulptur. ) In: andreas-quartier.de.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / andreas-quartier.de
  8. ↑ a b The painter prince and the founder. In: Rheinische Post. February 28, 2015.
  9. ^ Prize of the Düsseldorf Jonges for visual artists. ( Memento from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: duesseldorferjonges.de.
  10. ↑ Friends of the Great. In: Große1890.de.
  11. ^ Art foundryman has to testify in Achenbach's trial. In: Rheinische Post. April 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schmäke, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art caster and former university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf