Leonard Wübbena

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Leonard Wübbena (born March 16, 1946 in Funnix / Ostfriesland) is a printmaker and sculptor / metal sculptor of contemporary German sculpture.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a typesetter in the 1960s, he attended the Aachen University of Applied Sciences , design department, and then worked in various activities in the graphic arts industry. From 1972 he worked as a teacher for creative works / art and until 1975 as a lecturer for artistic printing techniques and work in the visual field.

In the 1980s he turned to sculptural work and was active as a sculptor in steel - since 1985 metal sculptor in general. In the beginning, Leonard Wübbena combined found objects and worthless scrap in the working process to create artistic sculptures. He was inspired by sculptors such as the Spaniards Julio González (considered to be the inventor of "iron sculpture") and Picasso , the British Anthony Caro and the American David Smith , whose exhibition at the Center Pompidou in Paris in the summer of 1986 was a key experience for him.

Later he created more and more abstract works of art from several materials such as rollers, tubes, lids, hemispheres, elbows and other raw products and segments of the metal trade. His works are small sculptures, reliefs and free and large sculptures in bronze, iron, steel and chrome-nickel steel. He made a large part of his large contemporary sculptures from COR-TEN steel .

He was the artistic director of the 3rd East Frisian Sculptor Symposium in 1990 and also that of the 2nd Wittmunder Sculptor Symposium in 1994, which u. a. Bernhard Luginbühl , Klaus Duschat , Werner Pokorny and David Lee Thompson were involved.

“Kogger II” (1998), Wübbena Collection
“Scarlatti” (2006), Wübbena Collection
“Ferruccio” (2007), private collection

Solo exhibitions

Symposia

  • 1990: 3rd East Frisian sculpture symposium in Wittmund (K)
  • 1994: 2nd Wittmunder sculpture symposium in Wittmund (K)
  • 1994: Westend Metal Symposium in Bremen
  • 1997: ODIOUS steel symposium in Berlin
  • 2004: Sculpture Week in Damme
  • 2006: International steel symposium in the palace park Dieskau / Halle an der Saale

Art in public space (selection)

literature

  • W. Franke, notes on Leonard Wübbena in: Catalog L. Wübbena, sculpture and drawing, Gdańsk Art Gallery, Poland 1989
  • Jürgen Weichardt in: "Steel Sculpture", 3rd East Frisian Sculpture Symposium, Wittmund 1990
  • Dietmar Popien, The order of dreams in: Catalog L.Wübbena, sculpture and drawing, Gdańsk Art Gallery, Poland 1989
  • Jürgen Weichardt in: Catalog Skulptur im Stadtpark Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 1992
  • Jürgen Weichardt in: Catalog Leonard Wübbena, Galerie Moderne. Bad Zwischenahn 1994
  • Jürgen Weichardt in: "Steel Sculpture", 4th East Frisian / 2nd Wittmund Sculpture Symposium, Wittmund 1994
  • Bernd Küster , Organic Vitality in Steel, in: Passagen, Heft 38, Mannheim 1994
  • Bernd Küster in: Punkt, Kunst im Nordwesten, issue 27, p. 21, Bremen 1994
  • Bernd Küster in: Catalog L. Wübbena, Sculptures, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven 1996
  • Edmund Schruff, Miss Lucy Pink from LW, in: "Stahlreport", issue No. 3/97, Düsseldorf 1997
  • Renate Brand, Harmonie in Stahl, in: "Stahl und Eisen", Heft 8, S. 142, Düsseldorf 1997
  • Gabriele Horn, Leo Wübbena - Abstract Real, in: Pendragon, Forum of Contemporary Art, “At the Edge of the Millennium”, Bielefeld 2000
  • Heiko Jörn, "Art from East Friesland", in: Catalog "From the Sea to the Spree", German Parliamentary Society, Berlin 2004
  • Daniel Spanke “Rocaille and Industry”, in catalog: “Twenty Years Later”, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2006

Sculptures

  • Unschlitt 2003

  • Lotus 2005

  • Navigare 1997

  • Lucy Pink 1990

Web links

Commons : Leonard Wübbena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Wübbena, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Funnix