Otto Habel

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Otto Habel (born January 2, 1922 in Proschwitz near Niemes , Northern Bohemia, † March 18, 1996 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor , glass designer and mosaicist .

Life

Otto Habel attended the Haida Technical School for Glass Design from 1936 to 1939 . He then studied with the help of a scholarship for a year at Charles University in Prague . During the Second World War he did labor service and served as a soldier. Due to an injury, he was able to take a break from military service and attend the art college in Berlin. After the war he studied from 1945 to 1949 at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Rudolf Yelin . After completing his studies, he lived and worked as a freelance artist in Stuttgart (temporarily in Leinfelden ). He often worked with the Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt in Munich.

Otto Habel's complete oeuvre includes mosaics, glass windows, sculptural work and paintings in over 150 Catholic churches. Mainly he worked in southwest Germany. His works can also be found in public buildings such as community centers, schools and banks. Some of them were carried out as competition work. Habel often addressed the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ , especially in the form of depictions of the Way of the Cross . The elongated strips of material that he uses instead of small cubes are characteristic of his mosaics. As a sculptor he created reliefs made of aluminum for altar rooms and liturgical objects made of bronze or stone.

In 1989 he was awarded the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Fine Arts of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft .

Otto Habel died in Stuttgart in 1996. He is buried in the Leinfelden forest cemetery near Stuttgart (Department 36, Row 2, Grave 5).

His son Raphael Habel (* 1953) is also a freelance sculptor and painter. He often worked with his father until he passed away. He later moved to Grabenstetten , where he has had a studio with a sculpture garden since 2001 with the sculptor Christine Pütter.

Works (selection)

Part of the monumental mosaic "The Returning Lord", altarpiece in the St. Eberhard Cathedral
  • 1957: Stained glass window in the parish church of St. Maria Königin, Kemnat
  • 1960: Choir window in the parish church of St. Maria, Stuttgart
  • 1961: Altarpiece "The Returning Lord" in St. Eberhard Cathedral , Stuttgart (13 meter high gold mosaic, depiction of Christ as Pantocrator with two seraphim , court angels and the virgins invited to the eternal wedding supper, materials: marble, onyx , malachite and lapis lazuli )
  • 1963: Way of the Cross in the parish church of St. Maria, Stuttgart (mosaic)
  • 1964: Way of the Cross in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Stuttgart (Scraffito technique)
  • 1964: Redesign of St. James' Church in Schwäbisch Gmünd - Bargau
  • 1968: Altar mosaic of the choir wall (natural stone mosaic) and side window in the Church of St. Theresia, Stuttgart-Weilimdorf.
  • 1970: Way of the Cross and Altar Cross of the Parish Church of St. Klemens, Böblingen (mosaics)
  • 1977: Tabernacle (bronze and rose quartz) in the Church of St. Theresia, Stuttgart-Weilimdorf.
  • 1978: Ambonen (lectern), altar cross and cross on the outer wall above the main portal of the Church of St. Theresia, Stuttgart-Weilimdorf.
  • 1980: Way of the Cross (14 stations in natural stone mosaic) in the Church of St. Theresia in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf.
  • 1980: Bronze relief of the Seven Works of Mercy in St. Josef (Saxony near Ansbach)
  • 1984: Glass sculpture In memoriam Bohemiae in the Sudeten German Center in Munich, Hoch-Straße
  • 1985: Way of the Cross in the parish church of the Holy Family , Munich (mosaic)
  • 1988/1989: Risen man with various scenes from the life of Christ, mosaic in the chancel in the church of St. Antonius in Herrenberg
  • 1991: Way of the Cross in the parish church of Maria Regina , Fellbach (mosaic)
  • 1994: Mosaic at the Liebfrauenkirche in Bad Cannstatt

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 65th birthday. Otto Habel, painter, sculptor, mosaic maker. In: Communications from the Sudeten German Archive. Issues 86–89, Sudetendeutsches Archiv 1987, p. 27.
  2. ↑ a b Dankmar Trier: Habel, Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 70.
  3. ^ Sudeten German Culture Awards 1989. In: Sudentenpost. May 25, 1989, p. 7.
  4. ↑ cobblestones. In: Sphäre - magazine for the Swabian Alb habitat. 3/2010, page 6–7.
  5. ↑ church leaders St. Eberhard steberhard.de. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Habel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and glass designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Proschwitz at Niemes
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1996
Place of death Stuttgart