Kurt Sandweg
| Portrait of Kurt Sandweg |
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| 2005 |
| in the Cubus Kunsthalle, Duisburg
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Kurt Sandweg (born October 17, 1927 in Düsseldorf , † November 18, 2008 in Duisburg ) was a German sculptor , graphic artist and university professor .
Life
Kurt Sandweg was born in Düsseldorf-Bilk in 1927. From 1941 to 1944 he did an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor with the sculptor Franz Dreier in Düsseldorf, before he was called up for military service in 1944 (deployment in the east, wounding).
After the Second World War , from 1945 to 1949, Sandweg did his training in the studio of the sculptor Bentrup, studies with Professor Weissenborn and at the evening academy of the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1950 he worked as a freelancer for a Düsseldorf stone sculptor. From 1952 to 1956 Kurt Sandweg then had his own studio in Düsseldorf.
In 1957, Sandweg moved to the Einbrunger Mühle and founded the artist group Einbrungen / Wittlaer together with Günther Uecker , Germán Becerra , Hannes Esser and Rudi Heekers . Jochen Hiltmann and Bernd and Hilla Becher joined them later .
In 1958, after working in a ceramic studio in Vallauris in the south of France , Sandweg created his first life-size sculptures in wood and stone, as well as a series of painted wood reliefs. During a longer stay in Greece around 1960, large sculptures and steles , drawings and prints were created. In 1966 Sandweg traveled eight months to Peru , Mexico and Brazil and took part in archaeological excavations . The Koehler Osbahr Foundation received in 2006 as a donation from the extensive heritage of ethnological collection Kurt sandy path for the Cultural and Local History Museum Duisburg .
In 1967 he left the Einbrung artists' colony, built and moved into his studio in Wittlaer-Froschenteich , Wittgatt 88 in 1968 , in which he lived and worked until his death, and became a lecturer in sculpture and drawing at the Duisburg adult education center. From 1969 to 1970 a teaching assignment at the Pedagogical University of Duisburg followed . The City Council of Duisburg appointed him as artistic advisor to the committee for cultural issues. From 1971 to 1976 Sandweg was chairman of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists and director of the annual exhibition for fine artists from North Rhine-Westphalia, "Die Grosse" . In 1973 Sandweg curated the first West German post-war exhibition in Krakow, Poland .
Between 1975 and 1976, after a stay of several weeks in the Ivory Coast , he began building up his own collection of African sculptures . In 1977 Sandweg initiated the cultural exchange of students and university professors between Poland and the FRG , was invited to the international sculpture symposium in Oronsko and in 1978 organized the Great Art Exhibition of West German Artists in Krakow. In 1978, the sculpture department at the Duisburg University of Applied Sciences was expanded and an excursion to Turkey took place .
Kurt Sandweg had been a member of the New Darmstadt Secession since 1983 . In the same year he initiated the first jury-free art exhibition “Artists from NRW in Moscow ”. From 1985 to 1986 he was a member of the construction committee of the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg . From 1987 to 1990 he took part in the Universade initiative . From 1991 to 1999 he worked on the establishment of the Center for Art (ZKM) .
From 1972 to 1992, Kurt Sandweg was a teacher at the Duisburg University in the field of art and sculpture.
Kurt Sandweg's partner had his last major work set up on his grave in the Nordfriedhof (Düsseldorf) , a figure with a golden orb , which Kurt Sandweg had named "The Keeper".
“Kurt Sandweg's artistic work is divided into three areas: sculpture, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. The focus of his work was sculpture. Here it is mainly works in stone, wood and bronze as well as reliefs, mostly in wood. The outstanding significance of Sandweg's work is determined by the consistent development of his sculptural design language, which is not distracted by any fashionable trends. The beginning of his artistic work was marked by a thorough examination of the human body as the basis of his artistic names. Kurt Sandweg belonged to a small group of visual artists who developed figurative sculpture in a consistent, unswerving consistency against all fashionable trends since the war into a new, original form of formulation. His sculptures are independent form inventions. The reference to possible influences from non-European sculptures, such as South America or Africa, should rather be understood as a compliment; The Sandweg figures claim to be creations in an admirable tradition. "
Kurt Sandweg took part in national and international group exhibitions in Europe.
- “The four winds” by Kurt Sandweg, Alter Markt in Dülken
Solo exhibitions
- 1968: Presentation of the South America Collection
- 1972: First exhibition of the Sandweg Collection: Pre-Columbian Art in the Lower Rhine Museum
- 1973: Organization of the first West German post-war exhibition in Krakow as curator
- 1976: Exhibition of Crafts, Art and Life in West Africa
- 1978: Sandweg Collection, Art in Ancient Mexico , Duisburg Museum
- 2005: Sandweg retrospective in the cubus art hall, Duisburg
honors and awards
- 1978: Medal of Honor from the Polish Association of Artists
- 1979: Medal of Honor from the Polish Minister of Culture
- 1980: L'Ordre Du Merite Culturel of the People's Republic of Poland
literature
- Konrad A. Schilling: Kurt Sandweg - Life's Work: A Retrospective , Wohlfarth Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 3874633896
Web links
- City Museum Duisburg: Kurt Sandweg 1927–2008, Exhibition: Life and Death in Ancient Peru 2012/2013
- Kurt Sandweg Foundation
- You don't talk about the deceased - Kurt Sandweg . Obituary by Horst Dieter Bürkle, dated June 24, 201
Individual evidence
- ^ The artists' colony in the Einbrunger paper mill
- ^ The Majas' treasures for the museum, Kurt Sandweg Collection. RP Duisburg, August 6, 2010, accessed on April 25, 2015
- ^ NRZ, Mourning Kurt Sandweg, November 19, 2008
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sandweg, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, graphic artist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 2008 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |