Lothar Beck (sculptor)

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Lothar Beck (* 1953 in Herbsleben ) is a German painter , sculptor and university professor . He lives in Dresden.

Monument Peace Movement in Dresden
Moritzburg figure counter post
Sculpture gallery on the TU Dresden campus
Great sun worshiper in Dresden-Johannstadt 2007

Life

After graduating from school, he learned the trade of a construction machinist from 1969 to 1971. From 1974 to 1977 he worked in the theater as a set designer . Then he studied until 1980 at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden in the field of theater sculpture. From 1980 he worked freelance in Dresden. From 1986 the membership in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR followed , after the turn in the Association of Visual Artists . In the period from 1983 to 1985 he took on a teaching position at the HfBK, head of the technical school. From 1998 he took on a teaching position at the Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Architecture . From 2000 to 2001 he was head of the sculpture symposium of the New Saxon Art Association in the Sankt Marienthal-Ostritz monastery. From 2015 he took over the artistic direction of the Sculpture Academy Dresden. His artistic achievements encompass the past art epochs with his intentions of the models from the last century. Coupled with the style of classical modernism, he finds his individual style, whereby the art of theater is often reflected in his works. In his relief-like figures he composes the diversity of his statements. In 2006 he participated in the sculpture symposium in Moritzburg .

Exhibitions, selection

  • 1989: exhibition Konturen, Nationalgalerie (Berlin)
  • 1990: State Museum Schwerin , personal exhibition
  • 1991: New Dresden Gallery, with Bernd Hahn
  • 1993: Kunstverein Hameln , Rolf - Flemes - Haus with V. Hofmann, A. Küchler, Gerda Lepke , S. Plenkers u. a.
  • 1995: Höhne art dealer , Cuxhaven together with Gerda Lepke
  • 1995: Galerie Am Strausberger Platz, Berlin with Petra Kasten
  • 1996: Leonhardi Museum Dresden, personal exhibition
  • 1997: Sculpture exhibition at Galerie Hieronymus, Dresden, with Eberhard Göschel , R. Kriester, Frank Maasdorf, Peter Makolies , AR Penck, J. Schmettan, Werner Stötzer
  • 1998: Galerie Sophien Edition, Berlin with O. Manigk
  • 2000: Galerie im Werbehaus , Dresden with M. Etzold
  • 2001: Art fair Cologne , Galerie Sophien-Edition, Berlin
  • 2002: Gallery I. Vagt, Berlin with Carsten C. Gille, U. Hausfeld, M. Sperling
  • 2006: Lothar Beck and Gerda Lepke - 2 positions in the Kunsthaus Kühl Dresden.
  • 2007: Exhibition participation genius loci - genius artis at the Kunsthaus Kühl Dresden.
  • 2009 to 2010: Anniversary exhibition of the art exhibition Kühl, 85 years part II, artists of the gallery - selected works
  • 2010: Lothar Beck - Sculptures in the Kunsthaus Kühl Dresden.
  • 2011: blunt and finely tuned - a full cosmos in the banned light | Artist of the gallery, participation in an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Kühl Dresden.
  • 2012 to 2013: Lothar Beck - Sculpture in the Kunsthaus Kühl Dresden.
  • 2013: Exhibition in the Dresden District Court Sculpture + Sculpture Sandstone sculptures by students of the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Dresden
  • 2014: 90 years of the art exhibition Kühl from 1924 to 2014
  • 2015: Sculptures by the Dresden sculptors Lothar Beck, Frank Maasdorf and Peter Makolies for one year in the garden of the Landhaus Dresden .
  • 2016: Faces of Childhood , from Sigrid Artes to Albert, participation in an exhibition at Kunsthaus Kühl Dresden.
  • 2019: 24th exhibition of the summer gallery "Summer guests X in Frauenstein "; Lothar Beck - plastic and sculpture. Hans-Jürgen Reichelt - painting and graphics. as host Carsten Gille - painting.

Works (selection

  • Shaping the Road to Liberation. (Archival signature 13 .; Directory unit 1984–1989 Dresden Archive).
  • Design of the guest house of the council of the district in Dresden (archival signature 189 .; index unit 1982–1987 Dresden archive).
  • Artistic design of the VEB Dresdner Fleischkombinat in Dresden (archival signature 504 .; directory unit 1986–1990 Dresden archive).
  • 1984: Black seated persons , small sculptures made of marble , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . Inventory number P 66/84
  • 2006: Kontrapost , sandstone sculpture in Moritzburg, location of the University of Applied Sciences for Religious Education
  • 2007: Big sun worshiper on Striesener Straße in Dresden-Johannstadt (sculpture symposium sandstone & slab )
  • 2010: Memorial for the peace movement in Dresden at the Kreuzkirche Dresden.
  • 2015: Sculptures made of sandstone by students of the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Dresden with Lothar Beck von Rebekka Schütz: Wagnis (2015); Antje Naumann: Supportive forces (2014;) Sophie Dietrich: Krake (2015): Maximilian Werner: Vacuum cleaner (2015), Lisi Tu: Waiting (2015), Leonard Lenk: Sphinx (2015)

literature

  • Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, In: Artists on the Dresden Elbhang. Volume 1. Dresden 1999, p. 18
  • Catalog Young Artists of the GDR 1984, Berlinverlag Berlin 1984
  • Catalog for the exhibition Insights in the Dresden-West Gallery, Dresden 1985
  • Lothar Beck catalog, sculptures, exhibition Neue Dresdner Galerie, Dresden 1986
  • Gert Pinzer, Elisabeth Heinrich: Dresden small sculpture 1945–1987. Council of the City of Dresden - Collection of the Office for Fine Art Office for Fine Art of the Council of the Dresden District, 1987, pp. 14, 55.
  • Daniel Jacob: Sculpture Guide Dresden: From Aphrodite to Twin Fountains. ISBN 3-942098-05-9 , pp. 49 and 263.

Web links

Commons : Lothar_Beck_ (sculptor)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  2. ^ Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, artist on the Dresden Elbhang. Volume 1. Dresden 1999, p. 54.
  3. ↑ a b c directory units. Archive Saxony, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Autumn life