Manfred Sieler

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Manfred Sieler (born June 15, 1927 in Gelenau , † June 30, 1971 in Wuppertal ) was a German sculptor and professor at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf .

Life

Manfred Sieler was born in Gelenau in the Saxon Ore Mountains in 1927 . After his military service and captivity in World War II , he did an apprenticeship as a stonemason from 1947 to 1950 . From 1950 to 1956 he studied sculpture with Karl Hartung at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . He became a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin . Study trips took him to Greece.

In 1958 Sieler received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome and in the same year was appointed professor of sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as Ewald Mataré's successor. In 1959 Manfred Sieler had his first solo exhibition at the Alex Vömel gallery .

When Joseph Beuys was appointed to the Düsseldorf Art Academy as successor to Josef Mages in 1961 , although his former teacher, the sculptor Ewald Mataré, had warned, Beuys' teaching shook the entire institution of the State Art Academy to its foundations. Beuys was committed to art and its claim to the utmost. With his student party he worked towards a restructuring of the academy in the sense of an " expanded concept of art ". In doing so, he provoked considerable resistance from a large number of the academy professors, who finally wrote their manifesto against Beuys in November 1968 and withdrew their trust in him. Manfred Sieler, along with Gert Weber, Norbert Kricke , Karl Bobeck, Walter Breker , Karl Otto Götz , Gerhard Hoehme , Günter Grote, Karl Robaschik and Rolf Sackenheim, was one of the signatories of a corresponding manifesto by the professors at the Düsseldorf Academy.

In 1971 Manfred Sieler fell from a bridge on the Düsseldorf – Wuppertal autobahn and died. Manfred Sieler's first marriage was to the sculptor Sabine Flir. In 2004/2005, his second wife Irene donated correspondence and numerous work photographs by Manfred Sieler to the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin. His works included figural sculptures made of bronze, but he also worked as a draftsman, graphic artist and illustrator. As such, he made woodcuts and lithographs in particular.

Student (selection)

Work (selection)

  • Reclining nude , woodcut, 1950
  • Antigone , portfolio of etchings by Manfred Sieler, with selected texts from the tragedy of Sophocles, Felsig, Berlin, 1957
  • City history of Herne , bronze relief in the town hall of Herne, 1960 (today stored in the municipal warehouse)
  • Sonnets to Orpheus , portfolio of thirteen lithographs by Manfred Sieler, with twelve selected sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke, Düsseldorf Art Academy, 1962
  • Bull , bronze, annual gift of the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf, 1962
  • Bronze bust of Freiherr vom Stein , entrance hall of the Detmold district government, erected in 1962
  • untitled (comedians) , color lithograph, 1970

literature

  • Manfred Sieler . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 416 .
  • Villa Massimo, Baden-Baden, 1978, p. 352
  • Johannes Stüttgen : The whole belt. The appearance of Joseph Beuys as a teacher - the chronology of events at the State Art Academy Düsseldorf 1966–1972 . Ed. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-306-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Villa Massimo scholarship holders from 1913 to 2014: Manfred Sieler, 1958 ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2013 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. , at villamassimo.de, accessed on February 11, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villamassimo.de
  2. ↑ Jörg Boström: Manifesto of the professors at the Düsseldorf Art Academy of November 12, 1968 , at Wrodow Castle, accessed on February 11, 2016
  3. ↑ Helga Meister: Message Art , on kulturwest.de, accessed on February 11, 2016
  4. ^ Part of the estate of Manfred Sieler, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
  5. ↑ CL-AN Barthelmess 1960 to 1963 studied sculpture with Manfred Sieler , at BBK Kunstforum, Düsseldorf, accessed on February 11, 2016
  6. ↑ Ronald Hughes studied from 1964 to 1967 in Manfred Sieler's sculpture class , at Galerie Kränzel, accessed on February 11, 2016
  7. ↑ Werner Ignaz Jans Bio , on Künstlergruppe Winterthur, accessed on February 11, 2016
  8. ↑ Nikolaus Sievers , at duesseldorf.de/kuenstlerleben, accessed on February 11, 2016
  9. ↑ Herner city's history in bronze, PDF , on herne.de, accessed on February 11, 2016
  10. ↑ Stier by Manfred Sieler, 1962 , on Artnet, accessed on February 11, 2016
  11. ^ Monuments directory Detmold, Manfred Sieler Design / manufacture of the head piece Freiherrn vom Stein from Minden (1796-1803)
  12. ↑ Figure bronze bust of Freiherr vom Stein, Manfred Sieler
  13. ↑ Manfred Sieler, untitled (Komödianten), color lithograph, edition of 150 copies
personal data
SURNAME Sieler, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and professor at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelenau / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1971
Place of death Wuppertal