Karl Ehlers

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Monumental sculpture “Stele” at the concert hall of the Detmold University of Music , 1967
“The frame tree”, permanent collection LWL Museum for Art and Culture , Münster
Sculpture "Into one another" (1972/1977), Allwetterzoo Münster

Karl Ehlers (born March 16, 1904 in Hollenbek ; † April 16, 1973 in Detmold ) was a German sculptor and draftsman .

Live and act

When he was about 10 years old, his family moved from Holstein to Bottrop , where he attended elementary school and high school. During his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1923 to 1929, he was Hubert Netzer's master student for two years .

From 1928 to 1929 there was a time in a guest studio at the Istanbul Art Academy and later from 1930 to 1936 as a teacher at the commercial vocational school in Duisburg - Hamborn . During this time he gave free art courses and built a stonemason class .

In 1937 he received the state grant " Four Painters - Four Sculptors " from the Kassel Art Academy . In the same year, two of his works from the Duisburg municipal art collection were confiscated as " Degenerate Art ".

From 1940 to 1948 he was a soldier and in Soviet captivity. After his return he lived and worked in Detmold. In 1965 he moved into a house with a studio in Detmold- Hiddesen .

From 1957 to 1970 he directed the sculpture class at the Werkkunstschule Münster .

He married Erna Fleer in 1934. Daughter Rikarda was born in 1936, daughter Beate in 1937 and daughter Anke in 1943. Ehlers died in Detmold in 1973.

Awards and recognitions

Karl-Ehlers-Straße in Detmold is named after him.

His artistic estate is kept by the Lippe regional association . The Landesverband Lippe shows some of his works together with works by the sculptor Heinrich Drake in a permanent exhibition in Brake Castle .

Works (selection)

  • Girl with a Grape (1933). Bronze, was confiscated as degenerate art in Duisburg in 1937 and rediscovered in the bomb rubble during archaeological excavations in 2010 .
  • The Owl (1950). Oak wood, privately owned
  • The Frog King (ca.1951). Bronze fountain sculpture in front of the Ostland School in Espelkamp , (stolen in 2011)
  • Big standing man (1957). V2A steel, Salzetalklinik Bad Salzuflen
  • Reclining (1966). Bronze, 156 × 220 cm. Location: Kurpark Bad Oeynhausen , near Rosengarten, newly installed in November 2008, first installation in 1966. Ownership: Staatsbad Bad Oeynhausen. Enlarged version of a 18 cm high bronze from 1957.
  • Throne (1961). Bronze, Detmold market square, formerly the sculpture park of the Lehmbruck Museum
  • Capitals (1962). In the Carolingian westwork of the Corvey monastery church
  • Stele (1967). Sculpture made of precast concrete parts with a total height of 13.50 m at the concert hall of the Detmold University of Music
  • Intertwined (1972/1977). Iron, 8 m high, erected in 1977 in front of the Allwetterzoo Münster . Enlarged version, executed by Ludwig Dinnendahl , Neubeckum, of a 100 cm high sculpture made of synthetic resin pressed wood from 1972.

  • Throne (1961), Detmold market square

  • Kortum-Brunnen , Pastor-Barnstein-Platz, Mülheim an der Ruhr

  • Sculpture in Marl

student

literature

  • Erna Ehlers (editor), Margit Koch (editing), Paul Pieper (introduction): Karl Ehlers: Das plastische Werk . Münster: Coppenrath Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-88547-236-8
  • Karl Ehlers, Paul Pieper : Karl Ehlers drawings 1923–1973 . Münster: Coppenrath, 1979, ISBN 3-920192-76-1
  • Christiane Erdt: Studies on the sculptural work of Karl Ehlers . Münster (Westphalia), dissertation, 1977
  • Karl Ehlers, Peter Berghaus: medals, drawings, sculptures; 27.5. - June 18, 1972 . Minden Museum for History, Regional Studies and Folklore, Minden, 1972
  • Karl Ehlers 1904–1973 . Münster State Museum 29.9. - 10.11.1974, Bremen Kunsthalle 15.12.1974 - 12.1.1975, Duisburg Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum 31.1. - 9.3.1975, Bielefeld Kunsthalle. Edited by the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster. Münster, 1974
  • Karl Ehlers: sculptures, graphics; 18.1. - February 22, 1964 . Municipal art gallery Bochum. Exhibition catalog, 1964
  • Mayarí Granados: Karl Ehlers - “The Liberation of Form”. An artistic development between sculpture, graphics and art in building (=  catalogs of the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold . Volume 20 ). Detmold 2015, ISBN 978-3-942537-03-2 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Düsseldorfer Stadtchronik 1952
  2. ↑ Heinrich Drake and Karl Ehler's estates are moving!
  3. ↑ The Berlin Sculpture Find. 'degenerate art' in the bomb rubble . Press release from the National Museums in Berlin, 2012
  4. ↑ Neue Westfälische from February 28, 2012: Karl Ehlers bronze discovered in the bomb rubble
  5. ↑ Neue Westfälische from February 23, 2011: Symbol of the Ostland School stolen. Fountain sculpture by the famous sculptor Karl Ehlers dismantled from unknown persons
  6. ↑ picture (flickr)
  7. ^ Paul Pieper: Sculpture exhibition in Münster 1977 (catalog) . Ed .: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe with the support of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Münster 1977, p. 211 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollenbek
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1973
Place of death Detmold