Karl J. Dierkes

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Grave of Karl J. Dierkes in Dalhausen

Karl Josef Dierkes (* 1924 in Dalhausen ; † 2008 ibid) was a German sculptor and philosopher.

Life

He was born the son of a basket maker and a singer from Berlin. In 1942 he was called up for military service and lost a leg in the Second World War due to a wound on the Eastern Front in Russia. After studying sculpture with Hans Martin Ruwoldt in Hamburg and a few years in the Darmstadt artists' colony , he returned to Dalhausen near Beverungen in 1960 and built a house with a studio on his father's property at Hellweg 10. In 1994 Wolfgang Brosche shot a portrait of Dierke for Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

In the last years of his life, Dierkes painted watercolors and wrote lyrical short poems that are reminiscent of Japanese haiku . He was married to Ingrid Dierkes.

Works (selection)

Free plastic I / G9
  • Freiplastik I / G9 (1969), polished aluminum sheet on concrete, Ruhrallee, corner of Südwall in Dortmund
  • "KlangStelenKlan" (sound object; sound path, Park Schönfeld , Kassel )
  • Large sculpture in front of the employment agency in Paderborn
  • “Guardian” in front of the Forum Jacob Pins and in front of the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben School in Höxter
  • the "large original" in front of the Detmold regional council
  • the bronze relief "Overcoming Death" in the cemetery of Corvey Castle
  • "Big head", a bronze sculpture in an amorphous form, 23 cm high around 1986, cast in eight copies, one of which is owned by the Sparkasse Paderborn
  • "Five Steles Fountain", bronze, 1970, in Bad Pyrmont

Exhibitions

  • Karl J Dierkes - bronzes . Kulturkreis Höxter-Corvey / Museum Schloss Corvey May 11–31. October 1986.
  • Karl J Dierkes - bronzes 1951–1995 . Kulturkreis Höxter Corvey / Museum Schloss Corvey 1995.

Publications

  • Archaica. Facsimile print in the author's handwriting . Self-published, 1996.
  • Records . Self-published, 2002.
  • Scream of the eagle. Becoming - conscious - being. Attempt at an autobiography in sentences . Self-published, 2003.
  • Beyond the horizons . Beverungen no year

Appreciation

According to Dankmar Trier, Karl J. Dierkes' work initially began "with female nudes and torsos of reduced form, which he led to abstraction in curvy, flowing forms by the end of the 1950s Sculptures and reliefs that emphasize the vertical and have predominantly softly modeled anthropomorphic or analytical-cubic forms. Around 1970 also sharp-edged, geometrical constructions. "

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evidence of an artist's life . In: nw-news . Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ Dankmar Trier: Dierkes, Karl J. . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 267.
personal data
SURNAME Dierkes, Karl J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dierkes, Karl Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalhausen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 2008
Place of death Dalhausen , Germany