Karl Bobek
Karl Bobek , also Karl Bobeck (born June 14, 1925 in Berlin ; † January 20, 1992 in Maroth ), was a German sculptor .
Life
Bobek was born in Berlin and studied there from 1949 to 1955 at the Academy of Fine Arts , where he became a master student of Renée Sintenis . In 1961 Bobek received the “Young Generation” art award from the city of Berlin. In 1963 he was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he taught art until his retirement. In 1965 he was awarded the Cornelius Prize by the city of Düsseldorf.
His sculptural works include female nudes, for example the “Study of a Large Reclining Woman” from 1957 to 1958. In addition, Bobek also created sculptural portraits. The sculpture three-legged (cast iron) from 1989/90 stands in a forest clearing in the valley by Erwin Wortelkamp.
In 1960 he was awarded a scholarship at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo . The Hercules Musarum statuette was created between 1959 and 1964 . 1972–1974, at the suggestion of Prof. Dr. Martin Sperlich (1919–2003) with the creation of larger-than-life attic figures for Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which was badly damaged by bombs in 1943 and 1945 and rebuilt after the war . In addition to Bobek, the Berlin sculptors Günter Anlauf , Hans Joachim Ihle , Harald Haacke and Joachim Dunkel were busy with this task. The attic figures made of cast aluminum by Hermann Noack in Berlin-Friedenau were to adapt baroque figures in a modern form based on the example of historical castle views of the 18th century in the interests of the client, the palace administration, whose director Sperlich was in the successor to Margarete Kühn . Bobek included his older figure of Hercules Musarum in his attic figure cycle. The figure shows the ancient demigod Hercules (Heracles) with a lion's skin , shouldered club and a lyre decorated with a bull's head. Bobek had the model for this figure cast in the Barth foundry in Berlin as a 51 cm high bronze cast. The statuette of Hercules Musarum from the estate of Sperlich's wife Cornelie Sperlich came into the Berlin art trade in 2011 and was acquired for a Berlin private collection in October 2011.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ Stiftung Wortelkamp: Entry on the work "Karl Bobek: Dreibeiner (1989/90)"
- ↑ Villa Massimo | Scholarships. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
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↑ cf. Art auction house Leo Spik, catalog of auction 639, 20-24. September 2011, lot 537;
Markus Knappe: The sculptor Karl Bobek (1925–1992). Leben und Werk, Phil. Diss. Karlsruhe 2000; available as PDF (8.1MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bobek, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bobeck, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1992 |
| Place of death | Maroth |