Paul Fuchs (sculptor)

Paul Fuchs (born November 29, 1936 in Munich ) is a German sculptor and sound artist .

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During his apprenticeship as an art and building fitter from 1951 to 1958, Fuchs worked with Herbert Altmann and Carl Knappe . From 1958 to 1964 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Heinrich Kirchner .

He then created numerous iron works and from 1967 onwards, together with his first wife Limpe Fuchs , devoted himself increasingly to experimental music under the group name "ANIMA musica", which they also performed together with their son Zoro Babel . In 1972 Friedrich Gulda joined Paul and Limpe Fuchs and together they founded the group " Anima ", with which they gave numerous concerts and appeared at festivals. Fuchs also developed the ballast string in the mid-1970s . There were also music projects with the violist and chamber musician Hariolf Schlichtig and the percussionist and drummer Andreas Fröhling.

From 1974 to 1984, together with his son David Fuchs, born in 1962, he assisted his former teacher Heinrich Kirchner with the execution of all of his old works for the sculpture park in the Burgberggarten . Since 1985 he has created play sculptures for children's playgrounds in Munich, Ingolstadt and Grosseto (Italy) as well as many large sculptures, which often also depict sound experiments. Many of his sculptures, up to 30 meters high, were made in David Fuchs' son and Dominik Rothweiler's metal studio in Deggenhausertal . Since 1996 Paul Fuchs has been working on a sculpture park in the Giardino dei Suoni ("Garden of Sounds") near the Boccheggiano district of the municipality of Montieri in Tuscany .

Works (selection)

Inclination - freely swinging needle, Munich-Neuperlach

• Large sculpture “Wheat Ear” for the Pretzel Museum in Erdmannhausen , 2016
• Large sculpture "Rauchsignal" for the Klenzepark in Ingolstadt, 2013
• Large sculptures "Zeitsenkungskurve" and "Space-Time-Diagram" from the "Art Project Oelsnitz ", development of concepts for the former mining area , 2002 ff. ( List of works of art in public space in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. )
• Sculpture "Ride the World" for the Ostend School in Neuburg an der Donau , 2001
• Play and sound sculpture for the park "il boschetto" in Grosseto (Italy), 1997
• Embryo, Cultural Office of the City of Ingolstadt, 2003
• Inclination, police service building, Munich-Neuperlach , 1999
• Ouros, tax office in Rosenheim , 1991
• Girandante, Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences , 1995
• Doppelhelix, Water Management Office in Rosenheim, 2001
• Three-bowl fountain, Traunstein town hall courtyard , 1998
• Vogel, Hertzhaimer-Gymnasium in Trostberg , 1996
• Brunnenmichi, Trostberg Culture Center, 1998
• Sound garden with four sculptures ( list of works of art in public space in Unna : wooden block wagon , wind bird , extraterrestrials and trumpet animal ); Bornekamppark, Unna 1983–85

"Space-time diagram", Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.

literature

• Fuchs, Paul. In: Helga de la Motte-Haber : Sound Art. Sounding objects and sounding spaces. Laaber Verlag, 1999, p. 296. ISBN 978-3-890-07432-0
• Susanna Partsch : Fuchs, Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 46, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22786-8 , p. 66.
• Matthew Gurewitsch: A Blacksmith's Touch Makes Music Light. The New York Times, New York, May 4, 2011.
• Gottfried Knapp : At the original source of sounds, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, July 18, 2005.

Web links

Commons : Paul Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Paul Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Fuchs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Paul Fuchs at Discogs (English)
• Paul Fuchs at Allmusic (English)
• Paul Fuchs & Limpe at Allmusic (English)
• Paul & Limpe Fuchs Anima-Sound at Musik-Sammler.de
• Personal website