Louis Niebuhr

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Frenswegen head , 1979, Bentheim sandstone (Photo: 2007)
Puppet rest , Oberbaum / Schlesisches Tor, Berlin (Photo: 1987)
Puppet rest , Oberbaum / Schlesisches Tor, Berlin (Photo: 2004)
Paläotacho , 1991, Steinwiese, Gymnasium Syke (Photo: 2009)
Bronze group Be-Hauptungen at their old location in front of the Bremen State Archives
Triad , 1996/1997, Landeszentralbank Hannover, Georgsplatz
Sculpture group whale whispers in front of the Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art (Photo: 2007)

Louis Niebuhr (born February 5, 1936 in Syke ) is a German sculptor and freelance graphic artist .

Life

In the early 1950s, Louis Niebuhr first completed an apprenticeship in plastering . In his job he was involved in the restoration of the theater on Goetheplatz , the Focke Museum , the Glocke concert hall in Bremen and the Bremerhaven city theater . Even then, Niebuhr was taking drawing courses at the Bremen State Art School . He also gained further artistic education through a longer art tour through Italy.

From 1954 to 1961 he worked as a plasterer in the restoration work of churches in Switzerland (including Sta. Maria Assunta Calanca Church , Oberdorf am Weissenstein , Baar-Zug , Savognin , Lain , St. Meinrad Chapel on the Etzel Pass , St. Maurice ). During this time, Niebuhr also completed his master's degree in plastering in Heilbronn and spent several study visits to Perugia, Rome and Florence.

From 1961 to 1966 Louis Niebuhr studied sculpture at the State Art School in Bremen under Professor Gerhart Schreiter . He financed his studies by carrying out commissioned work and restoration work at the Übersee-Museum and on Bremer Böttcherstraße . From 1969 to 1972 Niebuhr taught at the Werkkunstschule Hannover , from 1974 to 1977 at the technical college for design in Bremen. He spent several working stays in Carrara in Italy (1980-91) and in Larvik (Norway; 1994-97). Niebuhr has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1971 .

Niebuhr lives with his wife Beate Zitzlaff in Syke (Lower Saxony) and works as a sculptor in his home town and internationally. His preferred materials are hard stucco , marble and beech . Since 1973 he has participated in sculpture symposia. His works are in private and public ownership. In 1991 he organized a European sculpture symposium for his hometown Syke , which was dedicated to Wilhelm Heile . In 1992 he was awarded the Diepholz District Culture Prize.

In Syke there are a number of his sculptures in public space and in the Niebuhr / Zitlaff collection of the non-profit foundation Kreissparkasse Syke in the Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art . Thanks to a donation agreement with Louis Niebuhr and his wife Beate Zitzlaff, the foundation has received three works by the sculptor for its art collection every two years since 2005.

The non-profit foundation Kreissparkasse Syke was founded in 1985 on the occasion of the inauguration of the renovation and extension of the Sparkasse headquarters in Syke. In 2011, the purpose of the foundation was expanded to include art and culture. The foundation would like to support important artists from the region and beyond and offer them an action and exhibition forum with the Syker Vorwerk, which opened in 2007 . With works by Hans-Albert Walter and Louis Niebuhr, two nationally important artists have already been included in the collection in order to preserve their works in the long term and make them accessible to the public in exhibitions and publications. The artist couple Louis Niebuhr and Beate Zitzlaff and the Foundation is keen to see a collection of the complete works of Niebuhr is retained during his lifetime and after his death also. In addition to this regulation, the work of Beate Zitzlaff will also be included in the collection.

As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Louis Niebuhr took part in almost all of the annual DKB exhibitions between 1969 and 1990.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1969–1975, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1987–1989: Annual exhibitions of the German Association of Artists, catalog
  • 1972: Kunsthalle Bremen : Kilo group with KD Boehm , Katinka Nicolai , Bernd Uiberall , K
  • 1975: Haus der Kunst , Munich: New group , group exhibition, K
  • 1975: XXII. Fiorino Biennale Internazionale, Forte di Belvedere, Florence, with Henriette Riederer for Germany, K
  • 1976: Cité Internationale des Arts Paris , France, G
  • 1978: Orangery, Hanover: The fine arts and the animal , G
  • 1984/1985: Städtische Galerie Nordhorn : Louis Niebuhr: sculptures, drawings and diaphragms 1968–1984 , solo exhibition, K
  • 1985: Bremer Wallanlagen : The Presence of Sculptures - Sculpture of the Present , G, K ("As part of the project Im Park: The Presence of Sculptures - Sculpture of the Present , 37 artists presented their works in the Wallanlagen in the Kunsthalle / Gerhard-Marcks- House in Bremen-Mitte. ")
  • 1988: Museo del Marble, Carrara, Italy; Willy Brandt House, Berlin; Hotel de Ville, Neuchâtel , France: The Apuan sculpture between tradition and international influences , G, K
  • 1990: Japanese-German Center, Berlin: Encounter through Stein with Gerson Fehrenbach , Yoshimi Hashimoto , Kazuto Kuetani , K
  • 1992: District Museum Syke, E, K
  • 1997: Haugar Vestolf Art Museum, Tønsberg , Norway: Sculptures Photograttagen , E, K
  • 2000: District Museum Syke, E, K
  • 2006: Kreissparkasse Syke: Transformationen , E
  • 2007: Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art: Culture Prize Winners of the Diepholz District , G, K
  • 2007: Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth: Have a Good Nose , G, K
  • 2008: Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth: … a look, please! , G, K
  • 2010/2011: Syker Vorwerk: Creating Land - Landscapes in Contemporary Art , G, K
  • 2011: Syker Vorwerk: LOUIS NIEBUHR - Sculptures Photograttages Drawings , E
  • 2013: Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Projektraum, Berlin: serious turns into fun ... the ironic in art , G; with the work Wildwechsel (1992)
  • 2013: Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth: KUNST COLLECTING 7 - Works from the collection of the "Foundation Art Building Schlosshof Bodenburg" , G
  • 2016: Syker Vorwerk: incision cross-section. Sculpture - Photo - Fotograttage, E

Symposia

Works (selection)

Sculptures in public space:

  • 1973: Extended head ( head end ) (Polish sandstone; Bischofsmühle, Hildesheim)
  • 1974: Main statements (3-part sculpture ensemble , bronze, plinth, concrete; green space on Gustav-Deetjen-Allee near the Bremer Bürgerpark. Until 2003 it was in front of the Bremen State Archives, President-Kennedy-Platz the Verrückungs action Moving the City "moved to its present location. the artwork of Louis Niebuhr consists of three skulls that are stored side by side on pedestals. Their shapes are oversubscribed, the heads bald, no hair or other head covering. This loading assertions has The sculptor Louis Niebuhr opposed the power that was shown in earlier centuries by the wearing of hats, the chapeaux claques . With their emergence came competition, industrialization and modernization. Machines were instruments of production and power that had contradicting feelings such as violence and Triggered fear, but were also lustful. ")
  • Communication (main post office Oldenburg)
  • 1979: Steingrat (group work, sandstone. "The floor sculpture was created as part of a sculpture symposium (July 9 - August 1, 1979) on the Am Deichschart / Werdersee green area. The stone material came from the demolished wing of the neo-renaissance building of the Bremer Post on Domsheide. Details Numbers, drill holes and other traces of work in the stone surface refer to the original building context. The floor sculpture blends in with the natural movement of the landscape and creates a mental line from Werdersee over the Kleine Weser to the Weser. The work of art was created in collaboration with the artist Romuald Frejer, Makoto Fujiwara, HAWOLI, Ewert Hilgemann, Peter Jacobi, Anna-Maria Kubach-Willmsen, Wolfgang Kubach. ")
  • 1979: Frenswegener Kopf ( Bentheimer Sandstein ; Kunstwegen Nordhorn)
  • 1981: Hommage à CF Gauß ( head mark ) (marble; Danziger Strasse 40, land registry office (atrium), Göttingen)
  • 1984: Puppenruhe MCMLXXXV-MMXV (marble; green area on Gustav-Deetjen-Allee near the Bremer Bürgerpark. "The marble stone is floating on its base. A horizontal and a vertical joint structure the long, closed figure the viewer see eg a larva, a pregnant being or a sarcophagus in it. Life, transformation and death unite associatively. The metaphorical shape of the stone is divided by cuts that follow circular segments. The unity as a marble block as a natural object is broken. The sculpture becomes a symbol of uncertainty about the future, a sign of the destruction of nature or its meaningful control. It was created in 1984 during a sculptor symposium in Bremen-Vegesack . From 1985 to 2003 it was located in the Vegesack pedestrian zone the displacement of works of art Moving the City to its current location. ")
  • Cloud Pocket (Hanover)
  • 1985: Midday Head ( Labrador ; Larvik, Norway)
  • 1987: Puppenruhe (marble; art project Menschenlandschaft Berlin , Oberbaumstraße / Schlesisches Tor)
  • 1988: Non-Stop ( Carrara marble ; initially Berlin, Kemperplatz; since 1994 Syke, district building)
  • Instant arc (marble; State Library, Oldenburg)
  • 1991: Paleotacho (Carrara marble; Syke, Steinplatz at the grammar school)
  • 1996/1997: Triad (Labrador, Stahl; Landeszentralbank Hannover, Georgsplatz)
  • 1997: Moments Stone (Labrador; Alte Wache, Northeim)
  • 2000: Transversal escapes (beech; Syke, district museum area; dismantled in 2006)
  • 2001: Core cuts and double delta (beech; Wald-Weg -zeichen , Syke, Friedeholz; both dismantled in 2010)
  • 2001: Spitzentanz and Kronenspiegel (beech; Bassum, Freudenburg park area, Kronenspiegel dismantled in 2006)
  • 2002: Stammtisch (dismantled in 2011) and forest whispers (also called whispers ; dismantled on September 2, 2014) (beech; Syke, park area Syker Vorwerk )
  • 2003: Zeughaus (dismantled on September 2, 2014; beech; Syke, Syker Vorwerk park area )

Public collections:

  • 1966: Magnetic Gesture / Pilz II (Hartstuck; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff Collection, Charitable Foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art)
  • 1967: Magnetic Gesture II (Hartstuck; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff Collection Charitable Foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art)
  • 1968: Circumpolar position / tuber , circumpolar position / (profiled) head , circumpolar position / lady of the cross and circumpolar position / pitted fruit (hard stucco ; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff collection, non-profit foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - center for contemporary art)
  • 1968: Tester (Hartstuck; Städtische Galerie Schloss Wolfsburg)
  • 1968/1969: Magnetic gesture / mushroom (Hartstuck; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff collection, non-profit foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - center for contemporary art)
  • 1969: Head with perm , circumpolar position / Urner apple , mask , magnetic gesture III / bud and circumpolar position / head wave (Hartstuck; Collection Niebuhr / Zitzlaff Charitable Foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art)
  • 1970: Kern / Kopfwelle (Hartstuck; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff Collection Charitable Foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art)
  • 1972: Skull of a steppe bird (diaphragm; acquired in 1973 from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen .)
  • 1973: Mutatis Mutandis (hard stucco, 2-part; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff collection, Charitable Foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art)
  • 1979/1980: Father's Day (marble; Oldenburg State Museum for Art and Cultural History)
  • 1982/1983: Violenza (Carrara marble; Oldenburg State Museum for Art and Cultural History)
  • Stele (Hartstuck; Niebuhr / Zitzlaff Collection Charitable Foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art)
  • Tree torsos (Haugar Vestolf Art Museum, Tonsberg, Norway)

literature

  • Louis Niebuhr - sculptures, drawings and diaphragms. Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn 1984.
  • Louis Niebuhr: European sculpture symposium. Forms for Europe - forms made of stone. August 25, 1991 to October 6, 1991; Syke, La Chartre Street. Ed .: Stadt Syke, Syke 1991.
  • Louis Niebuhr - Culture Prize 1992 from the district of Diepholz. With a text by Jürgen Weichardt . Ed .: District of Diepholz, 1992.
  • Regina Sievers: Studies on the sculptural work of Louis Niebuhr. Master's thesis in the subject of art history. Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg 1993.
  • Louis Niebuhr - sculptures, photograttages. Ed .: District Museum Syke, Syke 2000.
  • Rainer Beßling : Louis Niebuhr. In: Nature-Sculpture-Nature. Sculpture Symposium 2003 Vorwerk Syke. Ed .: District Museum Syke, Syke 2003.
  • 1st Northeim Sculpture Symposium of the District Sparkasse Northeim. With the artists Wolf Bröll, Ulrich Fox, Louis Niebuhr. Kreis-Sparkasse, Northeim 1997, ISBN 3-922805-62-0 .
  • Louis Niebuhr - Sculpture. With a text by Rainer Beßling. In: Culture award winners of the district of Diepholz 1989 to 2006. Ed .: Gemeinnützige Stiftung Kreissparkasse Syke, Diepholz 2007, pages 14–19.

Web links

Commons : Louis Niebuhr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "N" / Louis Niebuhr (accessed on November 25, 2015)
  2. ^ Exhibitions since 1951. In: kuenstlerbund.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019 ; accessed on April 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  4. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  5. ↑ a b k: art in public space bremen
  6. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  7. ↑ image file. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 22, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.symposium-norge.no
  8. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  9. ↑ head character. In: denkmale.goettingen.de. City of Göttingen, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  10. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
personal data
SURNAME Niebuhr, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and freelance graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Syke