Maria Pirwitz
Maria Pirwitz (born April 29, 1926 in Hamburg ; † December 19, 1984 there ) was a German sculptor and painter . She worked as a freelance sculptor in Hamburg for 30 years.
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After graduating from high school, during the Second World War in 1944, she began studying drawing at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In the same year she had to interrupt her studies to work in a precision engineering company in Altona . Until 1946 she worked as a nurse's assistant at the Red Cross . From 1946 to 1948 she studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Fritz Steisslinger . In 1948 her main subject changed to the sculpture class, which was initially supervised by Karl Hils and later by Alfred Lörcher . In the same year she moved from Stuttgart to the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg with Edwin Scharff , where she studied until 1950. In order to gain practical experience, she also worked in a stonemason in Hamburg.
In the summer of 1951, at her father's request, she attended a six-month course at the commercial school and obtained a certificate from the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . She then worked as a foreign language correspondent in a telephone factory until mid-1952. From 1952 to 1953 she worked in Sweden , where she designed and executed a major inlay work for the Akademie Ransäter , a community college in Värmland . In 1953 she returned to Hamburg and opened her own studio . In 1958 she worked on an inlay work on the entrance door to the conference room in Wolfsburg town hall . From 1960 to 1961 she went on a study trip to Mexico . From 1962 she stayed several times a year in the south of France in the town of St. Paul de Vence .
From 1974 she began to work as a lecturer at the adult education center in Hamburg. In 1978 she won first prize twice at the Bavarian Raiffeisen Association competition and at the Children's Foundation in Hamburg . In 1979 she won the first prize in the Brahms Memorial Competition in Hamburg, for which she created the sculpture Homage to Brahms , which can still be found today on Johannes Brahms Platz (formerly Karl-Muck-Platz) in Hamburg (this was also in 17 × 34 × 9.5 cm cast in bronze in an unknown edition). In the same year, her last major solo exhibition took place in the Kunstetage of Dresdner Bank at Mühlenkamp in Hamburg.
In addition to her sculptural work, Maria Pirwitz wrote smaller stories and poems that were published posthumously in 1987.
Maria Pirwitz found her final resting place in Hamburg's main cemetery in Altona
Selection of works
- 1949 - Gerda - Egyptian-looking woman portrait
- 1950 - Reclining - female figure made of terracotta (height 17 cm, length 30 cm), privately owned
- 1950 - standing - plaster figure
- 1954 - Como - boy figure
- 1956 - Marietta - girl with bronze dress - exhibited at the Anna Susanna-Stieg school (height 50 cm)
- 1956 - Seated Boy - Bronze, life-size
- 1958 - Regina - life-size bronze statue. Location: in front of the Volksdorf-Lerchenberg women's college
- 1958 - Boy with a whip - bronze statue, life-size; Location: Ernst-Schlee-Gymnasium
- 1964 - Ariane - seated female figure
- 1965 - boy with kite
- 1966 - Crowing rooster - Location: Wentzelplatz, in front of the police station 35 in Poppenbüttel
- 1967 - Large sun stele
- 1969 - Breaking up - interlocking bronze sculpture
- 1970 - Large flower tree
- 1970 - Birth of Venus - interlocking bronze sculpture
- 1971 - Susanne - head of a woman
- 1971 - Head on the Net or: Voilá l´homme - Sculpture Courtyard Hamburg Mümmelmannsberg
- 1973 - Stele with ball
- 1973 - Dr.K. - bronze head
- 1974 - Large standing woman - bronze figure of a naked woman (height 200 cm). Location: Barmwisch settlement in Hamburg-Wandsbek
- 1975 - Torso on the Net
- 1975 - Graces - three bronze fountain figures (32 cm high)
- 1976 - Girl with a cloth - bronze statue, life-size. Location: Barmbek Hospital in Hamburg
- 1978 - Dr. German - bronze head
- 1981 - Homage to Brahms - bronze sculpture set up in Hamburg on Johannes-Brahms-Platz in front of the Hamburg Music Hall
- 1982 - boy with hat
- 1982 - Stone flower made of Reinersreuther granite, Wördenmoorweg 57 in Hamburg-Langenhorn
- Plaster portrait for the stone cast by the sculptor Ursula Querner
Stories, poems
literature
- Edwin Scharff: Edwin Scharff and his students. Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7672-0428-2 .
- Maria Pirwitz: Maria Pirwitz: with previously unpublished poems by the artist and a contribution by Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann. Verlag Hower, Hamburg 1987, DNB 920830080 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography supplement at Denkmalplatz
- ↑ Short biography supplement at Denkmalplatz
- ↑ Maria Pirwitz at garten-der-frauen.de
- ↑ Steinblume , Object No. 55 at the Langenhorn Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pirwitz, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 1984 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |