Manfred Billinger

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Signpost to the fable path in the Gütersloh city park
Sculpture " Mammoth with sky ship" on the Fable Path

Manfred Billinger (* 1953 in Münster ; † February 10, 2001 in Hamm ) was a German artist .

Live and act

Billinger, born in 1953, studied from 1976 at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster with a focus on object design, sculpture and drawing. In 1978 he opened his first studio in Münster. He wrote his diploma thesis on " Monolithic Objects in the Landscape".

In 1982 Billinger moved to Hamm as a freelance artist, where he worked as an artist from 1988 in a hall on the premises of Thyssen Draht AG. From 1999 he had a former orangery in a castle park in the Münsterland as a studio .

In 1987 Billinger received a France grant from the Aldegrever Society, Münster. In 1990 he was honored with the Dr. Emil Löhnberg Prize of the City of Hamm, which was then awarded for the first time.

For the Gütersloh city park , Billinger created the so-called Fabelpfad, consisting of eight steel sculptures between 1.60 and 5.20 meters high. The first sculpture was erected in 2000 for the 175th anniversary of the city of Gütersloh , and more in the following years. Since Billinger died in 2001 at the age of 47, he did not live to see the completion of the fable path. The sculptures were made posthumously according to his plans.

reception

Quote from Herbert Knorr: “From black Hamm to eco-city. Where today, in a small green area between Wilhelmstrasse and Victoriastrasse, the works of the hammer artist Manfred Billinger are eye-catching ”.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1988: Manfred Billinger Exhibition - Please clear: Art in the City Area Hamm ", by Manfred Billinger, Henning Eichinger, Werner Ratering, from March 6th to April 4th, 1988 Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm
  • 1989: Manfred Billinger Pictures + Objects. Kalkar Municipal Museum. April 9 to May 16, 1989. Author: Dr. Siegfried Gnichwitz, Herten.
  • 1990: Manfred Billinger exhibition - tone in tone, sculpture project with ceramic resonance bodies, from September 16 to October 28, 1990, Maximilienpark electrical hall, Hamm
  • 1991: Manfred Billinger Exhibition - Inevitable: Works by the artists Manfred Billinger and Merve Giehl from January 12 to February 3, 1991 in the Marmelsteiner Kabinett, Würzburg
  • 2006: Manfred Billinger Exhibition - Known- Unknown- Unknowable: Exhibition on the artist Manfred Billinger, painting and sculpture, from July 30th to September 10th 2006, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm

Awards

  • 1987: France grant from the Aldegrever Society, Münster.
  • 1990: Honored with the Dr. Emil-Löhnberg-Kulturförderpreis of the city of Hamm.

literature

  • 1987: "Please clear: Art in the city area Hamm", by Manfred Billinger, Henning Eichinger, Werner Ratering, Cultural Office of the City of Hamm, Kunstverein Hamm, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm, Verlag A. Hellendoorn, 1987, 32 pages

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Manfred Billinger at Bazart
  2. ^ Portrait of the Fabelpfad by Manfred Billinger near the city of Gütersloh
  3. ↑ Manfred Billinger in "Criss-cross the Hellweg: literary views of a region", by Herbert Knorr, Unna Kulturamt - Westfälisches Literaturbüro in Unna eV, Klartext, 1999, page 77
  4. ↑ Please clear: Art in the city area Hamm ", by Manfred Billinger, Henning Eichinger, Werner Ratering, from March 6 to April 4, 1988 Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm, in exhibitions from 1945 to 2011 in Gustav-Lübcke- Museum Hamm, page 20 ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2012 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 note. (PDF; 150 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamm.de
  5. ↑ Manfred Billinger exhibition - Ton in Ton, sculpture project with ceramic resonance bodies, from September 16 to October 28, 1990, Elektrohalle Maximilienpark, Hamm ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstforum.de
  6. ↑ Manfred Billinger exhibition in “Chronicle of the City of Würzburg, 1989-1992, Stadtarchiv Würzburg”, F. Schöningh, 1996, page 282 - The exhibition “Inevitable” by the artists Manfred Billinger and Merve Giehl begins in the Marmelsteiner Kabinett the “Days of New Music”; it lasts until February 3rd.
  7. ↑ The Dr. Emil-Löhnberg-Kulturförderpreis of the city of Hamm
  8. ↑ Please clear: Art in the city area Hamm, by Manfred Billinger, Henning Eichinger, Werner Ratering, Kulturamt der Stadt Hamm, Kunstverein Hamm, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm, Verlag A. Hellendoorn, 1987, 32 pages
personal data
SURNAME Billinger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2001
Place of death Hamm