Monika Spiess

Rowers , Beetzsee regatta course, Brandenburg an der Havel

Monika Spiess (* 1942 ) is a German sculptor .

Live and act

Monika Spiess lives in the village of Klein Kreutz, which belongs to the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . She had her artistic graduated from the Workers 'and Peasants' Faculty at the Art School Dresden made, where in 1961 her husband Emil Spiess met (1938-2009). Both married two years later and moved to Brandenburg (Havel). In Brandenburg, Monika Spiess worked as a cultural functionary for the district council . In the meantime she studied plastic in Dresden. In 1977 the family moved to Klein Kreutz. She had her studio together with her husband in the Brandenburg transmission plant .

After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , the artist family gave up the studio in the gear factory, and orders collapsed. She was only able to carry out two jobs, including the renovation of a multi-story ceramic fountain in the green area of the hospice in Brandenburger Bauhofstrasse.

Monika Spiess took on ABM tasks . She worked as a social worker in a women's and family center and at a school, where she mainly brought the participants closer to understanding art. She has been a pensioner since 1997 , but continues to work as a sculptor with ceramics in the studio in her house in Klein Kreutz. She specializes in small sculptures with reduced forms. Since the death of her husband, she has been taking care of the presentation of his works. This is how the exhibition Emil Spiess - A Life for Art (April 24 to July 5, 2019) in the Kunsthalle Brennabor came about , through which Monika Spies guided visitors.

Monika Spiess has two sons: Marc and Jan (* 1967). Marc became a musician, Jan became a painter and graphic artist like his father.

Works (selection)

Hand of the oath , memorial for the anti-fascist resistance fighters executed in the Brandenburg-Görden prison, Brandenburg an der Havel

around 1975: Hand of the oath , memorial for the anti-fascist resistance fighters executed in the Brandenburg-Görden prison , Brandenburg an der Havel
A cast of this hand of the oath was placed in the memorial room of the prison.
1976: Rowers , bronze , regatta course Beetzsee , Brandenburg an der Havel
around 1980: Vogelstele (drinking trough), cement cast , height 240 centimeters, Zeppelinstrasse 168 / extended shore area Neustädter Havelbucht , Potsdam
1984: People column , concrete , at the community center Hohenstücken, Brandenburg
1986: Mother with child , bronze, at the Hohenstücke community center, Brandenburg an der Havel
1987: Vogelbaum . A bird's nest formed as a bird bath made of concrete was erected to beautify the new Frankfurter Allee Süd development .
1990: Bird bath with pair of birds , 1990, bronze, grounds of the Martha-Piter-Heim, Tschirchdamm, Brandenburg an der Havel

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Biography of Monika Spiess at Bildhauerei-in-Berlin , accessed on April 8, 2020.
↑ Illustration of the fountain in front of the hospice entrance , accessed on April 8, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b Claudia Nack: A house full of memories. In: Märkische Allgemeine . May 3, 2013, accessed April 6, 2019 .
^ Oil painting by Jan Spiess in the Sorat Hotel Brandenburg: Vernissage on October 9, 2014 , accessed on April 8, 2020.
↑ The memorial. In memory of those executed from prison. In: stadtmuseum-brandenburg.de. Brandenburg City Museum , accessed April 6, 2019 .
↑ Ivo Asmus, Heiko Droste, Jens E. Olesen (eds.): Common acquaintances: Sweden and Germany in the early modern period , therein: Stefanie Endlich: The memorial complex on the Marienberg , p. 38, footnote 3. Accessed on April 8th 2020.
^ Art in public space. (PDF) Downtown Potsdam. State capital Potsdam - Department of Culture and Museum, Department of Green and Traffic Areas, accessed on April 6, 2019 .
↑ View and brief description of the bird tree on sculpture in Berlin , accessed on April 8, 2020.
↑ Question No. 220/2012 by the Die Linke parliamentary group of August 21, 2012 on works of art in public spaces. (PDF) The Lord Mayoress, September 20, 2012, accessed on April 7, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Spiess, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1942

[BiB-1] Biography of Monika Spiess at Bildhauerei-in-Berlin , accessed on April 8, 2020.

[2] Illustration of the fountain in front of the hospice entrance , accessed on April 8, 2020.

[maz-3] Claudia Nack: A house full of memories. In: Märkische Allgemeine . May 3, 2013, accessed April 6, 2019 .

[4] Oil painting by Jan Spiess in the Sorat Hotel Brandenburg: Vernissage on October 9, 2014 , accessed on April 8, 2020.

[5] The memorial. In memory of those executed from prison. In: stadtmuseum-brandenburg.de. Brandenburg City Museum , accessed April 6, 2019 .

[6] Ivo Asmus, Heiko Droste, Jens E. Olesen (eds.): Common acquaintances: Sweden and Germany in the early modern period , therein: Stefanie Endlich: The memorial complex on the Marienberg , p. 38, footnote 3. Accessed on April 8th 2020.

[7] Art in public space. (PDF) Downtown Potsdam. State capital Potsdam - Department of Culture and Museum, Department of Green and Traffic Areas, accessed on April 6, 2019 .

[8] View and brief description of the bird tree on sculpture in Berlin , accessed on April 8, 2020.

[9] Question No. 220/2012 by the Die Linke parliamentary group of August 21, 2012 on works of art in public spaces. (PDF) The Lord Mayoress, September 20, 2012, accessed on April 7, 2019 .