Margarete Wiggen

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Margarete Wiggen (1982)
Hofer town hall fountain

Margarete Katharina Wiggen (born February 7, 1923 in Marl ; † November 24, 1999 in Bayreuth ) was a German artist who, as a sculptor , created fountains , reliefs and sculptures in bronze , among other things .

Life

Margarete Wiggen was the daughter of the engine driver Karl Adolf (1893–1965) and Anna Kunigunde Adolf, née Fischer (1897–1966). As a child, Margarete Wiggen painted pictures that were exhibited in kindergartens, and as a 13-year-old she designed a series of stage sets for her father's theater group . She completed her studies as a trained religion teacher. After the war she helped set up an aid organization for displaced people and returnees in the Oldenburg area. In Cloppenburg she came into contact with the sculptor Paul Dierkes from the Berlin University of the Arts , who introduced her to bronze as a material. In 1952 she married J. Gerhard Wiggen (1921–2008) in Münster . The marriage had two children. With Professor Nathanson in Paris she acquired further knowledge in drawing and painting. In 1971 she moved from the Düsseldorf area to Köditz . Among other things, she made 700 bronze sculptures, including several works in the city of Hof and the surrounding area . These include a relief and the city coat of arms on the Hofer Rathaus and the town hall fountain and the sculptures Wasserschütterin and Drei Mädchen in Schwarzenbach an der Saale . In addition to reliefs and sculptures, she designed other fountains in Hof, Naila , Bad Steben and Rehau , but also further away, such as in Ochtrup in Westphalia and in Werl . The former Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria Alfons Goppel received the bronze relief Mother of Christendom from Margarete Wiggen as a special gift on the occasion of the award of honorary citizenship of the city of Hof on March 13, 1981 . On October 1, 1982, the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss paid his first official visit to the city of Hof. Lord Mayor Hans Heun gave him the bronze relief sleeping or waking as a gift . Between 1961 and 1993, Margarete Wiggen regularly realized exhibitions in various cities, including several times in the Brinkwirth Gallery in Ochtrup and in Hofer Freiheitshalle . In the years after 1990 she lived in Bayreuth . Margarete Wiggen was a member of the Nordfranken group , the professional association of visual artists and the German Society for Christian Art . For her life's work, Chamber President Christian Heinrich Sandler presented the Upper Franconian Economy Culture Prize in 1993 . Her daughter is the Bayreuth artist Gabriele Plössner, who creates bronze sculptures from the world of Wagner operas.

Catalog of works for public contracts

plant Remarks place year view
Large bronze body, pulpit cross with body and large double chandelier Parish church Leverkusen-Bürrig Bourgeois 1964
White rose commemorative plaque Bronze relief from the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Norf in memory of the White Rose Norf 1966
Way of the Cross with 16 stations made of bronze Dreikönigskirche Garbeck , Sauerland Garbeck 1971
Relief sculpture, Way of the Cross, old bronze candlestick Mainz University Hospital , St. Rochus Church Mainz 1975
Ambo , tabernacle , altar candlestick, lecture cross , Easter candlestick, floor candlestick, candle table, door handles, altar cross, lectern, holy water basin , entrance relief The St. Pius Church was inaugurated in 1977 by the Archbishop of Bamberg, Elmar Maria Kredel . In addition to the numerous works by Margarete Wiggen, the Lichtenfels painter Hubert Weber designed stained glass windows with motifs of the Stations of the Cross . court 1977 Pius Hof 2014 xy 1.JPG
Bronze coat of arms City arms on the portal of the outbuilding of the town hall court 1978
Bronze fountain Entrance area of ​​the general local health insurance fund Naila 1978 Fountain Wiggen xy 1.JPG
Bronze relief St. Florian Fire station Köditz 1978
Town hall fountain Fountain in front of the town hall with an ensemble of figures court 1979 Hof Wiggen 2014 xy 5.JPG
Relief about the history of the town hall Attached to the side of the town hall court 1979 Hof Wiggen 2014 xy 8.JPG
Lambertus Fountain Pedestrian area Ochtrup 1979
Well plates Ornamental signs on the drinking fountain in the health resort Bad Steben 1979
Bronze heraldic shield with an inscription for the foundation stone Civil service college court 1980
Bronze wedding fountain Marketplace Naila 1981 Fountain Wiggen xy 2.jpg
Fountain on Kurt-Schumacher-Platz Fountain made of 22 bronze bowls, the square was formerly called Wittelsbacher Platz and was the location of the city scales court 1982 Hof Wiggen 2014 xy 2.JPG
Two bronze sculptures Outside area of ​​the center for the visually impaired Wurzburg 1983
Bronze figure woman with two children Inner courtyard of the vocational school with technical academy Ahornberg 1984 Ahornberg Wiggen xy 6.JPG
Saline fountain The abstract fountain in the pedestrian area of ​​Bachstrasse and Melsterstrasse is reminiscent of the city as a brine bath . He was sponsored by the Sparkasse Werl Sparkasse Foundation. Werl 1985
Settlers fountain with bronze family sculpture The fountain on the Birkenstrasse settler festival area is a reminder of the settler families who built a new home in Rehau before and after the Second World War. Rehau 1986 Fountain Wiggen xy 3.JPG
Bronze fountain seated Pedestrian area Bielefeld 1987
Water shaker Green area near the school building Schwarzenbach on the Saale 1991 Schwarzenbach Wiggen 2014 xy 004.JPG
Frog well Theresienstein court 1993 Theresienstein Wiggen xy 3.JPG
Three girls Forecourt in front of the retirement home Schwarzenbach on the Saale 1994 Schwarzenbach Wiggen 2014 xy 002.JPG
Bronze plate Entrance of the Leonhardskirche Köditz 1999

literature

  • Obituary in the Frankenpost dated December 6, 1999
  • Ralf Sziegoleit: exhibitions in courtyard . In: Kulturwarte - monthly for art and culture . Hof, 12/1975. Pp. 246-248.
  • Paul Ultsch: Franconian artists of the present: Margarete K. Wiggen . In: Frankenland, magazine for Franconian regional studies and culture . Würzburg 1979. pp. 17-19. ( PDF )
  • Culture prize of the Upper Franconian economy awarded, two visual artists honored . In: Upper Franconian Economy . Bayreuth, March 1994. p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Margarete Wiggen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.frankenpost.de/lokal/hofrehau/hof-stadt/Plaetschernd-Boten-des-Fruehlings;art2390,828320
  2. ↑ Hofer Anzeiger June 29, 1981, picture of the work of art
  3. ↑ Hofer Anzeiger 2./3. October 1982, picture of the artwork
  4. ↑ http://www.ploessner-bayreuth.de/
  5. ↑ Overview of the funded art objects in Werl, p. 6. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2014 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. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sparkasse-werl.de
  6. ↑ http://fichtelgebirge.de/die-region/staedte-und-gemeinden/rehau/sehenswerte/denkmaeler/siedlerbrunnen/
  7. ^ City of Rehau: Monuments, waymarks and symbols in the cultural city of Rehau . Rehau 2005. p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Wiggen, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiggen, Margarete Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Marl
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1999
Place of death Bayreuth