Paul Brandenburg

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Paul Brandenburg (born September 30, 1930 in Düsseldorf ) is a German sculptor who was particularly involved in the interior and exterior design of numerous Catholic sacred buildings and who also created many public sculptures for Berlin.

Life

origin

Paul Brandenburg was the son of the higher regional judge Leo Brandenburg and his wife Maria. Since the father was called to Leipzig , the family moved there in 1937.

His mother was a painter and sculptor and had professional contacts with the oratory of Saint Philipp Neri of the Liebfrauen parish in Leipzig-Lindenau . Only the works of Maria Brandenburg are known that she designed for the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Perleberg in 1954 . She created the Way of the Cross and the Corpus Christi , which is based on the cross based on the Havelberg Tatzenkreuz and hangs over the altar . The tabernacle and pietà in the same church are from her son Paul .

education

In 1948 Paul Brandenburg graduated from high school . For political reasons he was refused entry to the art academy in Leipzig. He completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor and volunteered in various trades. He also learned wood carving , stucco , metal drifting , ceramics and pottery , inlays , mosaic laying , bronze and concrete casting .

In 1952, Brandenburg relocated to West Berlin and continued his craft training there. In 1953 he attended the sculpture class of the master school for handicrafts, from 1955 then the sculpture class of Paul Dierkes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he graduated in 1958.

Artistic career

From 1958 Paul Brandenburg received his first sculptural commissions from the Catholic Church. From 1960/1962 further orders from the public, private and church side followed. An extensive work was created, especially in the area of ​​church design. In addition, he made numerous sculptures , monuments and fountains in stone and bronze. He worked for the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning at home and abroad, designed walls for schools, swimming pools and industrial buildings and designed facade designs.

Working method

All work is carried out by him personally from the draft to the final work through. He creates his works primarily from stone, bronze, aluminum, concrete, wood, ceramics and mosaic stones.

The stone carvings leads Brandenburg in his studio in Würzburg from. Bronze works are created in his studio in the Lower Rhine area and modeling in his Berlin studio.

Private

Paul Brandenburg is married and lives with his wife in Berlin-Frohnau .

Works

Church work (selection)

Brandenburg was involved in the interior and sometimes also in the exterior design of over 140 churches and chapels and created ways of the cross, crosses, figures, portals and much more. In particular, he designed numerous choir areas according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council . Below is a small list of his work:

  • In 1954, together with his mother, he redesigned the church in Perleberg and created the tabernacle and the pietà for the Church of the Immaculate Conception , the latter now in the anteroom of the church.
  • 1962 to 1965 he made the interior of the Liebfrauenkirche in Marburg .
  • In 1964/65 he designed the altar, baptismal font, hanging cross, tabernacle and stations of the cross of the Heilig Kreuz parish church in Gögglingen .
  • In 1966 he designed the altar, baptismal font , tabernacle and the hanging cross in the Kreuzberg St. Bonifatius Church , which was completely burned out during World War II.
  • In 1967 he created the baptismal font at the end of the central aisle, the altar, the tabernacle column on the eastern end of the right aisle, the ambo and the priest's seat as part of the complete renovation for the St. Nikolaus Provost Church in Kiel . The works were made of Anröchter stone and have a block-like, massive character.
  • 1968 Reconstruction work on the Church of St. Alfons in Berlin-Marienfelde , the ambo, tabernacle stele and cross were newly created.
  • In 1970 he designed the altar of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Berlin-Lankwitz
  • In 1975, Brandenburg designed the Way of the Cross in St. Hedwig's Church in Stuttgart .
  • In 1976 he worked on the interior renovation of the Artländer Dom in Ankum and designed the altar table, tabernacle, ambo and other details such as the door handles.
  • In 1978 he designed the images of the Stations of the Cross made of cast aluminum for the St. Anna Church of the Franciscan monastery in Dorsten .
  • In the 1980s, Brandenburg made the altar, the tabernacle, the hanging cross and a multi-part bronze relief on the back wall in memory of Niels Stensen for the St. Anna Provost Church in Schwerin .
  • In 1981 he created the altar, the tabernacle stele, the ambo, the priest's seats and the baptismal font made of Kirchheim shell limestone for the newly built St. Norbert Church in the Franconian town of Höchberg .
  • In 1981 he redesigned the sanctuary of the Sancta Familia church in the Ginnheim district of Frankfurt .
  • In 1984/1985 he designed the altar table and ambo made of cast aluminum for the St. Marien Church in Berlin-Karlshorst . When the church was further decorated in 1998, Paul Brandenburg made a candle bench for the chancel, an Easter candlestick and a sideboard , again made of aluminum.
  • In 1987 he created the new chancel of the Josefs Church in Egelsbach .
  • Also in 1987 he made the altar made of white Greek marble for the pilgrimage church Maria Frieden in Berlin-Mariendorf (symbolizing a lamb prepared for slaughter) as well as the tabernacle and the sides of the ambo made of aluminum. In addition, Paul Brandenburg created the glazed case in the Marienkapelle, which contains the three-part picture Madonna in front of barbed wire and rubble with Paul and Peter , created by Otto Dix .
  • In 1987 he designed a new altar and a new ambo for the upper church of St. Marien in Seligenstadt.
  • In 1991 he designed the new chancel for the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Kronberg .
  • In 1994 he made the people's altar for the Catholic parish church of St. Stephanus and St. Anna in Gaubüttelbrunn .
  • In 2011 he created a baptismal font for the parish church of St. Martinus Haren (Ems) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the consecration

Sculptures, fountains, monuments and steles

Paul Brandenburg made numerous sculptures, fountains and memorial stones or plaques for his hometown Berlin, which were set up in public areas:

  • Memorial stone for Karl Heinrich , 1962, location: Berlin-Spandau on the northwest corner of the Karl-Heinrich-Brücke , inscription: Police major / Karl Heinrich / resistance / fighter / against Hitler / 1945 by the / Soviets / deported / u. imprisoned / perished.
  • Our carrier pigeons , 1963, location: Berlin-Spandau, Falkenseer Chaussee corner Flankenschanze, renovation of the memorial for the German carrier pigeon with ten bronze carrier pigeons, which was designed by Georg Roch in 1939 with originally 25 pigeons, but was melted down again in 1942.
  • Sun labyrinth , 1970, location: Berlin-Reinickendorf in the green area of ​​Neheimer Straße 4
  • Four-element column , 1971, made of natural stone / Riedlinger limestone, location: Berlin-Reinickendorf in Neheimer Straße (residential complex)
  • Entrance door , 1972, made of cast aluminum, location: Berlin-Charlottenburg , Ernst-Reuter-Platz 3–5 (insurance building)
  • Olympic steles , 1972 to 2004, made of shell limestone , location: Berlin-Westend , on the grounds of the Olympic Stadium . A stele was created in pairs for the Olympic Summer and Winter Games , in which the logo of the venue, the names of the German Olympic champions (gold) and, if there was enough space, a relief of a victorious sport was engraved. Paul Brandenburg has been making these steles since the 1972 Olympic Games, who has also procured the rare stones, which are 2.40 meters high and weighs around 4 tons, and which can cost up to 10,000 euros, and sometimes looks for them in quarries in Europe for months.
  • Tangled form , 1973, made of shell limestone, location: Berlin-Kreuzberg , Wassertorstraße and Bergfriedstraße (residential complex)
  • Good Shepherd , 1974, shell limestone, 4 meters high, location: Berlin-Marienfelde , Maximilian-Kaller-Straße 6
  • Stone plant , 1975, shell limestone, location: Berlin-Spandau, Heerstraße 445, west of the intersection with Magistratsweg, corner of Semmelländerweg (residential complex)
  • Pan with double flute , 1975, bronze on a shell-lime base, location: Berlin-Tempelhof, Prühsstraße 11 (on the green area in front of the housing estate)
  • Split sphere , 1976, location: Berlin-Reinickendorf, Waldshuter line, market
  • Terrace fountain , 1978, location: Berlin-Schöneberg , Dominicustraße 37–43, inner courtyard
  • Brunnen , 1979, location: Berlin-Reinickendorf, Oranienburger Straße 285, Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik
  • Pietà , 1980, made of bronze, location: Berlin, Freiheitsweg, cemetery, in the chapel
  • Three-column fountain , 1981, made of marble, location: Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , Brunnenstrasse 64–65
  • Stepped column , 1982, made of bronze, location: Berlin-Tempelhof, Prühsstraße 11, green area with block interior
  • Fountain sculpture , 1983, made of natural stone, location: Berlin-Tempelhof, Bäumerplan 24, corner of Wüsthoffstraße in front of the main entrance of the St. Joseph Hospital
  • Memorial plaque for Willibald Gebhardt , 2005, location: at the Schöneberg sports center in Berlin-Schöneberg, Sachsendamm 11
  • Split cross , date of origin unknown, location: Berlin-Reinickendorf, Fließal cemetery, field for anonymous burials
  • Animal sculpture heron , date of origin unknown, location: Berlin-Spandau, Oberhavel lido

Small sculptures

As a replica of the sculpture Split Sphere in Berlin-Reinickendorf, Paul Brandenburg created a 3.7 cm (9.5 cm) high bronze cast in 1976. The number of copies made is not known.

gallery

Web links

Commons : Paul Brandenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Brandenburg ( Memento of the original of February 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Call of August 28, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dekanat-wittenberge.de
  2. ↑ Paul Brandenburg's studios ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Call of August 26, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vituskirche.de
  3. ↑ Liebfrauenkirche in Marburg (called on August 28, 2009)
  4. ^ Church of St. Bonifatius in a book about churches in Kreuzberg (appeal from August 28, 2009)
  5. ↑ St. Nikolaus Church in Kiel ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Call of August 26, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koehrsen.de
  6. ^ Church of St. Alfons in Berlin-Marienfelde (called on August 8, 2009)
  7. ^ History , Sankt Benedikt Berlin, accessed October 1, 2017
  8. ^ Church of St. Hedwig in Stuttgart (called on August 26, 2009)
  9. ^ Church of St. Josef in Egelsbach (called on August 26, 2009)
  10. ↑ Architect: Gisberth Hülsmann, completion of the church: 1972, consecration of the church: 1975, cf. Karin Berkemann: Architecture in the everyday test: The Fakir Hobby TE, in: moderneREGIONAL October 2016 ( http://www.moderne-regional.de/der-fakir-hobby/ , on the occasion of the on behalf of the Strasse der Moderne in cooperation with the Dommuseum Mainz exhibition "Forever. Modern Churches in the Diocese of Mainz" curated by Karin Berkemann, photos: Marcel Schawe); Robert Schnabel et al. (Arr.): 1966–2016. 50 years of St. Marien Seligenstadt, ed. by Holger Allmenroeder for the Catholic parish of St. Mariae Annunciation Seligenstadt, Seligenstadt 2016.
  11. ↑ Church of St. Peter and Paul in Kronberg ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Call of August 28, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kkkk4u.de
  12. ^ Annette Kaminsky: Places of Remembrance: Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR . Ch. Links Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-86153-443-6 , page 123
  13. ↑ The memorial to the army carrier pigeon. In: website of the Kameradschaft 248 GSU e. V. Accessed on March 15, 2018 (German).
  14. ^ Olympic steles in Berlin (called on August 28, 2009)
  15. ↑ Small Sculpture Split Sphere (accessed August 26, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf