Klaus Simon (sculptor)
Klaus Simon (* 1949 in Bad Godesberg ) is a German sculptor .
Life
Simon began his studies in 1975 at the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design in Cologne , then he studied art history and philosophy in Bonn. From 1976 to 1982 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Simon has been working as a freelance sculptor since 1982.
From 1983 to 1986 he had a teaching position for sculpture at the art academy in Düsseldorf. In 1984 he received a working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation . As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Klaus Simon took part in the DKB annual exhibitions in 1993 (in the Dresden Albertinum ) and 1994 (in the Mannheim Technoseum ). From 1991 to 1995 Klaus Simon was a lecturer at the "Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'action culturelle" in Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ).
Simon lives and works in Krefeld.
Work (examples)
Simon works with stone and wood. For the sculpture symposium Heidenheim an der Brenz, to which he was invited in 2004, Simon created the work burden . Solid wooden beams from a local wood processing company are layered in a translucent, octagonal shape with a domed roof, 8 m high. The altar block from a disbanded church is hung in the dome roof.
Simon chooses trees that have fallen or damaged as the basis of most of his works. For example, in 2009 he created the new popular altar in Gmünder Münster from a 150-year-old red oak . The altar as the place of the Eucharist and the ambo as the place of the Word of God form a unit in this design, as the ambo in the shape of a cross corresponds to the sawn cross of the altar. Not only the altar and the ambo, but the entire work is a unit, as the sideboard and the sediles come from the same tree.
“In his wooden sculptures, Klaus Simon makes it possible to experience directly with the senses what the crisis of human behavior is all about. A tree that becomes an altar has to do with this understanding of nature and sculpture. The sacrifice, committed at the altar in a spiritual way, is realized here very directly. "
In the summer of 2011 the artist designed the new principles for the Namen-Jesu-Kirche from the 300-year-old thick oak, a natural monument that fell on December 27, 2010 in the Kottenforst . Klaus Simon was allowed to use a section of 1.5 m in length. In a forest studio at the location of the thick oak, at the hunter's house , he created the altar, ambo, Easter candle holder and the cathedra , the bishop's chair.
Simon also designed the Carl von Ossietzky monument in Berlin-Pankow , which was erected in 1989.
Awards
- Sponsorship award "Fine Arts of the City of Düsseldorf" (1986)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- Venice Biennale
- Artothek in the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (1990)
- Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg (1992)
literature
- Christoph Brockhaus: Klaus Simon - sculptures . Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg (ed.), 1993
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- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 / '93, '94 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 26, 2016)
- ↑ Klaus Simon: Burden ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Heidenheim sculpture symposium, 2004
- ^ Sculpture symposium Heidenheim - Werk 04 , Heidenheim an der Brenz, 2004
- ↑ Excerpts from the opening speech of the 14th Summer Academy 'Lebenskreise - Lebenskrisen' by Thomas Sternberg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 2, 2003, Pentiment - International Summer Academy for Art and Design, Hamburg
Web links
- Klaus Simon - Edition Spahn [with CV and exhibition list]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | bad Godesberg |