Lothar Fischer (sculptor)

Three riders , Residenzplatz in Neumarkt

Large horned animal skull , collection of the Glass Box Sculpture Museum in Marl

Adam - St. Anne's Monastery Lübeck

Lothar Fischer (born November 8, 1933 in Germersheim , † June 15, 2004 in Baierbrunn near Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Lothar Fischer was born in 1933 in Germersheim / Pfalz as the son of the art educators Rosa and Max Fischer and in 1934 he moved with his family to Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . After graduating from high school, Fischer first studied art education in the class of Anton Marxmüller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1952 to 1958 . In 1953 he switched to Heinrich Kirchner's sculpture department and was in contact with Toni Stadler . Together with fellow students and painters Heimrad Prem , Helmut Sturm and Hans Peter Zimmer , he founded the artist group SPUR in 1957 . In 1964 Lothar Fischer took part in documenta III in Kassel . From 1975 to 1997 he taught as a professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin . In 1984 he was a lecturer at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg . In 1991 Fischer became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

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Large seated female torso at the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche in Osnabrück

Lothar Fischer was one of the most important German sculptors after the Second World War. His works mainly deal with the abstract human figure as well as riders and horses, which he preferred to work in clay. In addition, he created his sculptural work in bronze, iron and gypsum-styrofoam and worked numerous ink-brush drawings and watercolors.

Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, the city where he spent his youth and with which he was closely connected to the end, opened the Lothar Fischer Museum on June 19, 2004 , in which a large part of his life's work and his estate are exhibited. Several works by Fischer from the gift of Otto van de Loo are shown in the Kunsthalle in Emden .

Awards

• 1959 Rome Scholarship from the Arnold Foundation
• 1959 scholarship from Villa Massimo , Rome
• 1960 Youth Art Prize for Plastic, Mannheim
• 1967 Schwabing Art Prize
• 1968 Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts
• 1971 Award for Fine Arts of the City of Munich
• 1972 Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt
• 1990 Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize
• 2000 Art Prize of the City of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate

Exhibitions

• 1970: KasselerKunstVerein , Kassel
• 2001: Art figures - sculptures from 25 years, City Collections Schweinfurt, Halle Altes Rathaus, Kunstverein Schweinfurt eV, April 6 to June 3, 2001, and City Gallery in the Cordonhaus, Cham, June 9 to August 19, 2001 (with catalog)
• 2019: Lothar Fischer on paper , Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, from February 10th to October 13th, 2019

Web links

Commons : Lothar Fischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Lothar Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Lothar Fischer  in the German Digital Library
• Museum Lothar Fischer , Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
• A drawing and two clay sculptures  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
• Biography (Art Directory GmbH)
• Materials by and about Lothar Fischer in the documenta archive

literature

• Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Pia Dornacher (eds.): Group SPUR (exhibition catalog, Villa Stuck, Munich, etc.), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1799-1
• Lothar Fischer. Works on paper, 1937 - 2003, published by Pia Dornacher, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, edition metzel, Munich, 2018. Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the artist's 85th birthday and the museum's 15th anniversary in 2019
• Fischer, Lothar . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 36, 48-49 .