Ladis Schwartz
Ladis Schwartz (* 1920 in Timișoara , Romania ; † 1991 in Bonn ) was a Romanian-German sculptor.
Life
From 1938 to 1940 Ladis Schwartz attended the higher arts and crafts school in Budapest . From 1941 to 1944 he was interned as a Jew in a labor camp in Romania. In 1954 he married the painter Otilia Grosu. Since 1968 Schwartz lived in the Federal Republic of Germany, first in Siegen , from 1978 in Bonn .
The sculptor is represented with works in public spaces in a number of cities. So in Bucharest ( Romania ), Haifa ( Israel ), Bonn , Essen and Siegen .
In 1987 Ladis Schwartz initiated the restoration of the Rheineck Jewish Cemetery , located below Rheineck Castle near Bad Breisig . This was abandoned in 1979 after the then new owner of the castle had a barrier fence drawn through the cemetery and the tombstones were moved to the cemetery on the Kesselberg north of Bad Breisig . With the support of the Catholic Church and the international sensation that a corresponding publication in the Jerusalem Post caused, an agreement was reached in 1988 with the castle owner and the city of Bad Breisig. The tombstones were returned and the cemetery handed over to the city's care.
About his work
The sculptor is “primarily concerned with round sculptures on all sides, the volumes of which he masters powerfully and sensitively. By compression and expansion of the forms that are as vegetative as constructive, he finds symbols of the natural unity of all what has become and the becoming. " .
Works
- Tension (1976) - bronze sculpture - Düsseldorf , NRW collection (purchased in 1977)
- Tension II (1976) - bronze sculpture - Bonn- Plittersdorf , Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium (listed in 1981)
- Rest (silence) (1977) - bronze sculpture - Bonn, town house (installation 1980)
- Lyra (1985) - Fountain sculpture - Bonn, Botanical Garden
- Dynamics - Essen ( Steag headquarters )
- Otiyot (1987–1990) - bronze sculpture - Bonn- Hochkreuz , behind the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (list 1990)
- Aliya - Haifa
- Granite Buffalo - Bucharest, State Museum
- Marble totem - Siegen, Schlosspark
literature
- Ladis Schwartz (Ed.) / Otilia Schwartz (Red.): Life - Sources - Creation , Bonn 1990.
Web links
- Art in public space in Hagen - Ladis Schwartz
- Report on the restoration of the Jewish cemetery near Rheineck Castle
swell
- ↑ a b c d e f Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn: Installed from 1970 to 1991 . Dissertation, Bonn 2012. Part 2 ( online ; PDF; 5.8 MB).
- ^ Siegfried Salzmann - Director of the Kunsthalle Hannover - in: Ladis Schwartz. 1970–1985 , catalog of a sculpture exhibition in the foyer of the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, December 1985
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwartz, Ladis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Timișoara |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1991 |
| Place of death | Bonn |