Paul Schneider (artist)
Paul Schneider (born May 5, 1927 in Saarbrücken ) is a German sculptor.
biography
After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1945, Schneider completed an apprenticeship as a painter, which he completed with a journeyman's examination. Meanwhile, the desire to become an artist arose. Until 1948 he attended the local adult education center, where he made his first artistic experience in working with clay and in watercolor painting . From 1948 to 1951 he studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie Kassel with Professors Kay Heinrich Nebel, Ernst Röttger and Arnold Bode , the founder of documenta . He took painting , drawing and sculpture . To finance his studies, he took orders for grave inscriptions from a stonemason . In 1952 and 1953 he studied at the Städelschule (Frankfurt) as a student of the sculptor and art teacher Hans Mettel . After two semesters, he broke off his studies because he felt restricted in his free will. Schneider has been a freelance sculptor since 1953, initially from Saarbrücken.
In 1958 Schneider went to Italy to study, and another to Greece in 1962. The artist, who up to this point had mainly occupied himself with figurative compositions, broke away from this subject in the following years, his works became more and more abstract. In 1967 Schneider took a welding course which gave him experience in a new way of working with a new material. A first artist symposium took him to a steelworks in Košice , Slovakia in 1969 .
In 1971 he took part in the first International Sculptor Symposium in St. Wendel , which was initiated by the sculptor and later art teacher Leo Kornbrust . A year later he was invited to participate in the now well-established Symposium of European Sculptors in St. Margarethen in Burgenland , Austria , which Karl Prantl had brought to life in 1959 . In the period that followed, Schneider took part in numerous sculpture symposia. From 1976 to 1978 he played a key role in the redesign of the Saarbrücken pedestrian zone . In 1980 Schneider took part in a symposium in Patiala ( Punjab / India), which was followed by a study trip. Two more trips to India followed in 1989 and 1992.
Paul Schneider lives and works in the Bietzen district of Merzig .
In 2007, the Sonnenstein hiking trail was opened in honor of Paul Schneider in his home town of Bietzen . Twelve of his sculptures are placed along the 11 km long circular hiking trail.
Stones on the border
As part of the collaboration with Karl Prantl during the “Symposia of European Sculptors” in St. Margarethen, Schneider's desire to organize his own symposium grew. In 1985 he founded a support association with like-minded people, a year later this organized a sculpture symposium at Merzig. The artist invited sculptor colleagues from Germany, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland to this symposium. Their stone sculptures, created during the symposium, were placed along hiking trails along the German-French border on a ridge in the Saargau between the Saarland towns of Büdingen and Wellingen and the neighboring communities of Launstroff and Scheuerwald in Lorraine . Schneider named the project “ Stones on the Border ”. In the meantime, another six international symposia have taken place, the results of which have continuously enlarged the Sculpture Street. In 2013 it included works by 32 artists from 16 nations. In 2002 the two Saarland projects “Stones at the Border” and “ Street of Sculptures ” were combined. Schneider brought his project as well as the St. Wendel Sculpture Street to the " Street of Peace " initiated by Leo Kornbrust , which is based on an idea by the painter and sculptor Otto Freundlich .
Honors / awards
- 1984 Art Prize of the City of Saarbrücken
- 1991 Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo (Rome)
- 1997 Award of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1997 Prize from Sparda-Bank Südwest for special art achievements in public space
- 2000 Albert Weisgerber Prize for Fine Arts of the City of St. Ingbert
- 2001 Prize from Sparda-Bank Südwest for special art achievements in public space
literature
- Paul Schneider. [Cat. z. Exhib. id Galerie Monika Beck, Homburg-Schwarzenacker]. Zweibrücken, 1972.
- Dittmann, Lorenz: Paul Schneider . Ed .: Gisela Koch. [Cat. z. Exhibition in Lebach, April 1985]. Lebach: Queißer, 1985. 92 p., Numerous. Ill. ISBN 3-921815-55-X
- Dittmann, Lorenz: Paul Schneider . Ed. Gisela Koch [Cat. z. Exhibition in Lebach, April 1985]. 2., through u. erg. ed. Lebach: Ed. Galeria, 1987. 92 pp., Numerous. Ill. ISBN 3-921815-55-X
- Paul Schneider in conversation with Monika Bugs . Ed .: Jo Enzweiler, Inst. F. Current art. Saarbrücken: Verl. St. Johann, 1995. 24 pp., Ill. (Interview; Vol. 2) ISBN 3-928596-14-4
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Paul Schneider - Works . Articles and catalog raisonné. Ed .: Claudia Maas, Ed .: Jo Enzweiler, Inst. F. Current art i. Saarland ad University of Fine Arts Saar. Saarbrücken: Verl. St. Johann
vol. 1: 1949 - 1998. 1998. 251 p. Ill. ISBN 3-928596-36-5
Vol. 2: 1998 - 2000. 2001. 64 pp., Numerous. Ill. ISBN 3-928596-62-4 - Paul Schneider - Watercolors and Drawings 1947-2001 . [Exhibition catalog]. Ed .: Mittelstadt St. Ingbert u. Institute f. Current art. Arr .: Claudia Maas. Saarbrücken: Verl. St. Johann, 2001. 55 p., Numerous. Ill., 1 CD ISBN 3-928596-63-2
- Art location Saarbrücken: Art in public space by Paul Schneider . Ed .: Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Jo Enzweiler and Department of Culture of the State Capital Saarbrücken, Deputy Director Erik Schrader; Text: Oranna Dimmig. Publishing house St. Johann, Saarbrücken, 2012
Annotations
- ↑ Sonnenstein hiking trail, Bietzen / Menningen (near Merzig)
- ↑ Sonnenstein hiking trail - Paul Schneider (World of Form)
Web links
- Entry in the artist lexicon Saar , Institute for Current Art in Saarland [detailed biography with sculpture symposia, solo and group exhibitions as well as his works in public space]
- Biography at K4 gallery
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |