Marlies Leonardy-Rex
Marlies Leonardy-Rex (born Marlies Rex ; born December 25, 1935 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † December 19, 2017 in Bremen ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Marlies Leonardy-Rex was born on Christmas Day 1935 in Frankfurt (Oder) as the daughter of a teacher. After the start of the Second World War , the family went to Walsrode , where their father worked as a teacher. The later sculptor also grew up there, she attended the Walsrode school. She later studied at the University of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf and graduated with a master's degree . Then Marlies Leonardy-Rex worked in various cities in West Germany as a high school teacher . She lived in Bad Honnef for many years .
As a sculptor, Leonardy-Rex specialized in portraits of well-known personalities, whose images she cast in bronze as busts or sculptures.
After her death in Bremen, the artist was buried on December 27, 2017 in Meinerdingen from the chapel of the local cemetery in Walsrode.
Works
Busts and sculptures Leonardy-Rex show Willy Brandt in Berlin, Otto Hahn , Konrad Adenauer , Carlo Schmid , Simon Wiesenthal , Paul Löbe , Bishop Hermann Kunst , Ferdinand Porsche , Leonard Bernstein and others.
- The Eduard Rhein Medal, named after Eduard Rhein and cast in bronze, with a diameter of 70 mm was designed by the artist in Bad Honnef.
- around 2004: bust of the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
- In 2004, the former German foreign minister revealed Hans-Dietrich Genscher in the Haus der Geschichte in the presence of the Foundation President Hermann Schaefer and in the presence of the artist, the bronze bust of the former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev , for this model had been sitting. Another Gorbachev model is in Moscow .
- One of the works of Marlies Leonardy-Rex is the life-size statue of Hermann Löns cast in bronze , which was given to the city of Walsrode in 2006 as a gift from the Löns Association . This work also served as a template for postage stamps issued by Austrian Post .
Exhibitions
- 1979: Sculptures , 1979, Bonner Kunsthaus, Bonn
Catalogs
- A. Paul Weber , Marlies Leonardy-Rex: "In the name of the people" - lithographs and sculptures - catalog for the exhibition with graphics by Paul A. Weber and sculptures by Marlies Leonardy-Rex in the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn and in the Künstlerhaus Bonn. Bonn 1992.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c obituary in the General-Anzeiger Bonn from December 23, 2017 on the page trauer.general-anzeiger-bonn.de
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Walter Euhus : Marlies Leonardo-Rex died. In: Hermann-Löns-Blätter. Announcements from the Association of Hermann Löns Circles in Germany and Austria. V. 57th year (2018), issue 1, p. 26; also as a PDF document from loens-verband.de
- ↑ Illustration in Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 49, p. 356 (1996); Preview over google books
- ↑ a b Heike Lissen: Gorbatschow in bronze and the spirit of history. Article on the website of the daily General-Anzeiger from October 27, 2004, last accessed on May 13, 2020. (With a portrait of the artist during the unveiling of the Gorbachev bust)
- ↑ top v . : Hermann Löns and the Hermann-Löns-Stadt Walsrode / ... / The life-size bronze statue of Hermann Löns. On the page loens-verband.de [ undated ], last accessed on May 13, 2020
- ↑ Börsenblatt for the German book trade . 35: 5468 (1979); Preview over google books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leonardy-Rex, Marlies |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rex, Marlies (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high school teacher, artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 2017 |
| Place of death | Bremen |