Leoni Wirth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Complete dandelion fountain Dresden, around 1970
Dandelion Rostock
Bowl fountain by Leoni Wirth (1969), Prager Strasse Dresden
Windspiel in Dresden-Prohlis, Gamigstrasse

Leoni Wirth (born August 6, 1935 in Dresden ; † August 9, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and architect. She mainly created glass designs and water features .

Leoni Wirth initially studied architecture for two years at the TH Dresden and from 1954 to 1959 sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts , among others with Walter Arnold and Hans Steger .

Wirth lived and worked until around 2005 in the studio house she designed and built in 1964 on Karpatenstrasse 21 in the Rochwitz district of Dresden . From 1990 until she left Dresden, she was committed to animal welfare .

Her most famous work, the dandelion fountain consisting of five fountains on Prager Strasse in Dresden, was reduced to the three smaller fountains in 2004 after the redesign. Leoni Wirth protested against this, since in her opinion this constitutes a violation of copyright law. The other parts were restored, completed and installed on Albert-Wolf-Platz in Prohlis by Alexander Bergmann, whose grandfather Karl Bergmann had already worked on the original in 1970 . The Wirth wind vane had been in place in the “Prohlis new development area” since the 1980s, and was dismantled and stored in 2016.

The bowl fountain on Prager Straße was only in operation until the flood in 2002. It is planned to re-erect it 500 meters away from its original location on Dippoldiswalder Platz as part of a new promenade ring.

Working in public space

  • Dandelion Fountain (Dresden, Prager Strasse)
  • Bowl fountain, water feature (Dresden, Prager Strasse)
  • Dandelion (Rostock, Lütten Klein )
  • Glass fountain (Dresden, Pirnaischer Platz )
  • Sundial with colored glasses (Dresden, Robert-Sterl-Straße)
  • Wind sculpture (Dresden Prohlis, Gamigstrasse)

literature

  • Torsten Birne, Barbara Tlusty, Bettina Uppenkamp and Silke Wagler: Leoni Wirth: Playing with the elements . Fountain. Objects. Drawings. Form + Zweck Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-947045-07-5 .

Web links

Commons : Leoni Wirth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birgit Grimm: Known unknowns . In: Saxon newspaper . January 11, 2018 ( online [accessed January 12, 2018]).
  2. ↑ On-site meeting with Leoni Wirth (PDF 566 KB), accessed on January 27, 2016
  3. ↑ Birgit Grimm: Sprühende , sparkling Ostmoderne , Sächsische Zeitung January 5, 2016, accessed on July 25, 2017
  4. ↑ Tina Schneider: Do the dandelions have to go? An artist defends herself against the mutilation of her fountain . In: Saxon newspaper . February 19, 2004 ( Online ( Memento from September 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).
  5. ^ History of the dandelion fountains from Dresden @ fesselnderstahl.de, accessed January 11, 2018
  6. ↑ Albert-Wolf-Platz. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Leonie Wirth @ dresden-rochwitz.de, picture , accessed January 11, 2018
  8. ↑ Windfahne @ skd-online-collection.skd.museum - for the "Art Fund" see The collection of the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony ... is one of the most important art collections for Saxon art after 1945 ... Since 2004 the art fund has been part of the state art collections Dresden. , accessed January 11, 2018
  9. ↑ Dandelion Fountain. In: Dresden-Lexikon.de. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
  10. ^ A b Prager Straße / Buildings from 1963–1970. In: The new Dresden. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Leoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2012
Place of death Berlin