Kurt Lehmann (sculptor)

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Boy with a pigeon , bronze, 1958, in Osnabrück

Kurt Lehmann (born August 31, 1905 in Koblenz , † March 16, 2000 in Hanover ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Kurt Lehmann attended the municipal high school in Koblenz. From 1924 to 1929 he studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Kassel under Alfred Vocke and in 1929 he was able to show his first exhibition of artistic works at the Kunstverein in Kassel. After study trips to Belgium and France, where he visited Aristide Maillol , among others , he stayed at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1930 on a scholarship and lived in Berlin since 1931 . Here he was friends with the sculptors Gerhard Marcks and Gustav Seitz . From 1934 Lehmann lived in Kassel again, 1940–45 he was a soldier, his studio in Kassel was destroyed in the war. In 1946 he resumed his work in Kassel and finally became a professor at the Technical University of Hanover in 1949 (until 1969), where he held the chair for modeling in the architecture department.

In Hanover, Kurt Lehmann created numerous sculptures and reliefs (mostly made of limestone or bronze) that still dominate the cityscape today. He is a central figure in the artistic development of the city in the post-war period during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Kurt Lehmann's tomb in the Herrenhausen cemetery

For his works, Hanover had set up a special atelier with a stone courtyard for him right next to the Great Garden of Herrenhausen . During his local creative years the sculptor lived in the borders on the baroque gardens Hardenberg'sche palace in the old mansions street where Lehmann then hosted around for Martin Buber , Alexander Calder , Werner Gilles , Alfred Hentzen , the art patron Bernhard Sprengel , the stage designer Rudolf Schulz or Kurt Ehrhardt .

Kurt Lehmann was a member and from 1952 to 1960 board member of the German Association of Artists . In 1955 Kurt Lehmann took part in documenta 1 in Kassel. From 1970 until his return to Hanover at the end of 1998 he lived in Staufen im Breisgau .

Lehmann received numerous prizes and awards for his artistic work, "which in its strict, simplistic design reminds one of Ernst Barlach" .

Kurt Lehmann's tomb can be found in the Herrenhausen cemetery .

family

Kurt Lehmann was married. The marriage resulted in three children: the opera director Hans-Peter and the painter Katharina Lehmann as well as one other daughter.

Works (selection)

Figures on Georgstrasse (1950/51)
  • Saint Elisabeth (1934) in the Elisabeth School in Marburg
  • Collapsing Boy (1949)
  • Door handle figures at the Hanover Opera House (1950)
  • Figures at the Bahlsen House (now the Gisy shoe store) (1950/51), Georgstrasse 27–29, Hanover
  • Bathers (1951), inner courtyard of the NDR radio station in Hanover (small broadcasting hall)
  • Children's group (1952–53), Rheinpark Cologne
  • Relief above the entrance to the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1953)
  • Lying foal (1954), Leibniz School Hanover
  • Shepherd Boy (1954)
  • Rübezahlbrunnen , fountain figure (1954), Hannover midfield
  • The large standing woman (1955), courtyard of the former Ratsgymnasium Hannover
  • Girl in the rain, fountain figure (1955), Rosmarinhof, Hanover (further copy: Free Waldorf School Hanover-Maschsee)
  • Wächter (1955), Regional Finance Directorate Lower Saxony, Hanover (further copy: HSH-Nordbank, Kiel)
  • Playing children, fountain sculpture (1955/56), Grupenstraße, Hanover (the models were Lehmann's own children)
  • Evangelist symbols on the inner entrance door of the Marktkirche Hannover (1956)
  • Umschauende (1956), Leibnizufer Hannover (and plastic park Middelheim, Antwerp )
  • Outrageous (1957)
  • Moses and the tablet of the law (1957/1958), Hanover Regional Court , wall relief made of Kirchheim shell limestone slabs
  • Humility (Kneeling Shepherd) (1958), Aegidienkirche Hannover
  • Admonishing Angel (1958), Old Brethren Church in Kassel
  • Mother and Child (1958), Kassel
  • Archangel Michael (1961), in front of the entrance to the new OLG building, Celle
  • The Good Shepherd (1962), above the main entrance of the Hanover tax office for large-scale auditing, formerly the main building of the Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover
  • Javelin thrower (1964), entrance HDI-Arena
  • Girl in the Wind (1971), Kiel-Schilksee
  • Grave of Erhart Kästner in Staufen im Breisgau (1974)
  • Academic logo of the Hannover Medical School
  • Saint Martin as a relief on the Church of St. Martin in Hannover-Linden-Mitte

  • Girls in the Rain in Hanover (1955)

  • Looking Around (1956)

  • Admonishing Angel (1958)

  • Humility (1958)

  • Playing children (1955/56)

  • Guardian (1955)

  • Javelin Thrower (1964)

  • Bacchus (1970) in Staufen im Breisgau

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 6, p. 295
  • Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): neue plastik in hannover / Kunstsinn, patronage, urban aesthetics / An example in the mirror of two decades , Steinbock-Verlag, Hanover 1967, p. 81 and so on.
  • Fritz Nemitz: Young Sculptors , Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1939.
  • The sculptor Kurt Lehmann . Introduction by Walter Passarge. Photos by Kurt WL Müller. Lometsch, Kassel 1957. (Print of the Ark. 16)
  • Rudolf Lange: Kurt Lehmann . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1968. (Lower Saxon contemporary artists. 11)
  • Rudolf Lange: Kurt Lehmann. A sculptor's life . Schäfer, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-88746-344-7 .
  • Rudolf Lange: The human figure. The sculptor Kurt Lehmann died in Hanover at the age of 94. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . March 18, 2000, p. 7.
  • Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. Ed .: Bernd Weber, Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005 (2nd revised and expanded edition) p. 229f.
  • Hugo Thielen : LEHMANN, (1) Kurt. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 226f.
  • Hugo Thielen: Lehmann, (1) Kurt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 390f.
  • Ludwig Zerull : Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover , Hanover: Edition Libri Artis, Schäfer, 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , p. 143

See also

Web links

Commons : Kurt Lehmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Lange: A studio in Herrenhausen. In: Kurt Lehmann / A Sculptor's Life. Verlag Th.Schäfer, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-88746-344-7 , p. 60.
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 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. (accessed October 4, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ H. Thielen, 2002, p. 226.
  4. ↑ Gitta Kirchhefer: A walk through the Herrenhausen cemetery , brochure with photos by Sergej Stoll and a numbered overview plan, Hannover: Selbstverlag, 2012
  5. ↑ Kurt Lehmann: The Guardian - KUNST @ SH. In: sh-kunst.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  6. ^ Rudolf Lange: Kurt Lehmann. A sculptor's life. Hanover 1995, accessed on September 25, 2011
  7. ↑ Moses and the tablet of the law. Website of the Hanover Regional Court, accessed on September 25, 2011
  8. ↑ KUNST @ SH online
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2000
Place of death Hanover