Liesel Metten

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Liesel Metten (* 1938 in Recklinghausen ) is a German artist whose extensive work consists of sculptures and pictures of idiosyncratic mythical creatures . Metten had created his own fascinating cosmos of creatures over "decades of exuberant fantasy out of bronze, plaster of paris, cork, styrofoam or paper," the beings would look like "new creations of nature", wrote the Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) on the 80th Birthday of the artist.

Life

Metten studied fine arts with the sculptor Heinrich Kirchner in Munich in the 1950s . In 1961 she married the sculptor Johannes Metten, a nephew of the "Rheinhessen painter" Jean Metten . She moved into the Metten house , the former restaurant "Zur Schöne Aussicht" and the birthplace of Jean Metten in Nieder-Olm . In her new - meanwhile long - standing - hometown, numerous of her bronze sculptures stand, including the pretzel eater , the guide dog , the snail track , and together with her husband Johannes' fountain sculpture Water Birds (1978) form a sculpture path through the city. In addition to the studio in the Metten-Haus ( Mettenscheune ) in Nieder-Olm, the artist couple has owned the studio on the river in Bacharach since 1988 .

Awards and honors

Metten received numerous prizes: a gold medal for a sculpture at the 5th Semaine Internationale de la Femme in Nice (1970), the advancement award of the city of Mainz (1973), the advancement award of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (1975), the award of the Stiftung Kultur in the district of Mainz-Bingen (2002). Together with her husband, she received the Art Prize of the Ike and Berthold Roland Foundation and the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 .

The Liesel-Metten-Schule in Nieder-Olm was named after the artist in 2015 , a special needs school for severely and multiply disabled people.

Works (selection)

  • The snail roller from the figure group Schneckenspur (2001) from the sculpture trail in Nieder-Olm

  • The pretzel eater (1991) from the sculpture path in Nieder-Olm

  • Flock of sheep with shepherd (1988) on shell limestone from the sculpture trail in Nieder-Olm

  • The guide dog (2016) from the sculpture path in Nieder-Olm with a typical Rhine-Hessian landscape on its back

  • The artist designed the landscape on the back of the guide dog together with disabled students from the Liesel-Metten-Schule

  • Bronze sculpture in front of the elementary school in Klein-Winternheim

  • On the banks of poetry in Bacharach

  • Unicorns and rams in the Hafenpark Bingen am Rhein

  • Bronze sculpture in the winter harbor of Mainz

  • The toad fountain on the wine adventure trail near Oppenheim

  • The Metten house in Nieder-Olm is now itself the work of art become

literature

  • Wolfgang Bunzel, Jens Frederiksen (ed.): Liesel Metten. Metamorphoses. Göttinger Verlag der Kunst. 2018
  • Catalog for the exhibitions on Metten's 80th birthday in Mainz, Essenheim and Ingelheim: The world of Liesel Metten. With texts by Jens Frederiksen. 2018
  • Liesel Metten: The "economy for a beautiful view", in: Hans-Valentin Kirschner, Dieter Kuhl, Elmar Rettinger (eds.): Nieder-Olm in the heart of Rheinhessen - past and present. Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-943904-64-2 , pp. 183-194.

Web links

Commons : Liesel Metten  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AZ Mainz: Moths and mythical creatures: Exhibition series for the 80th birthday of the Rheinhessen artist Liesel Metten from January 6, 2018
  2. ^ City of Nieder-Olm: Liesel Metten sculpture path Nieder-Olm , accessed on February 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ metropol news: Order of Merit for Johannes and Liesel Metten from December 8, 2016
  4. ^ Regionalgeschichte.net Metten family of artists , accessed on February 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Kunst direkt, Künstlermesse Rheinland-Pfalz: Liesel Metten ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 on February 5, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / katalog.kunst-direkt.mainzplus.com
  6. ↑ metropol news: Order of Merit for Johannes and Liesel Metten from December 8, 2016
  7. ^ City of Mainz Phantasiewesen by Liesel Metten exhibited at the Römerpassage , accessed on February 4, 2018.
  8. ^ City of Mainz: press release. Five-station retrospective “The World of Liesel Metten” on the occasion of the artist's 80th birthday, accessed on February 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Metten, Liesel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen