Martin Hadelich

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Martin Hadelich (born November 21, 1903 in Einzingen ; † August 6, 2004 in Dessau ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist in Dessau.

Life

Born in 1903 as the son of a pastor in Einzingen (Allstedt / Sangerhausen district), Hadelich attended elementary school and then the technical school for precision mechanics in Ilmenau . He repaired typewriters for years and later worked in a feed and coal store.

From the age of 30 onwards, Hadelich modeled in his little spare time and thus developed into a visual artist in 15 years of self-study . He received the necessary material from a stove tile factory, in which he also burned his clay sculptures.

After the end of the Second World War , Hadelich went to the old Thuringian pottery town of Bürgel as a freelance sculptor and learned the pottery trade there. There he met his future wife Irmela Nauck and followed her to her hometown Dessau in 1950 .

When he arrived in Dessau, he created the life-size plaster sculpture Homeless for the State Gallery Dessau on the occasion of the exhibition 400 Years of Social Development , which is considered the artist's oldest surviving work. Construction-related work as well as sculptural plaster cut and wall ceramic designs followed.

In the 1960s, Hadelich again created sculptures that can be found in the cityscape of Dessau: cranes (Kavalierstraße), female goat riders (city park), friendship between peoples (in front of the North Disk), acrobats (former restaurant at the museum), ceramic figures in the staircase in the public swimming pool . From 1970 onwards he switched to small-format ceramic sculptures. In 1972 he received the Wilhelm Müller Art Prize of the city of Dessau. In 1995, Hadelich closed his workshop in the Palais Hilda.

  • Sculpture "The Goat Rider" in the city park in Dessau

  • Sculpture "Cranes" in the city center of Dessau

  • Sculpture "Acrobats" in the city center of Dessau

  • Sculpture “Friendship of Nations” in the city center of Dessau on the North Disk

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SURNAME Hadelich, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Singles
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2004
Place of death Dessau