Peter Greve

Peter Greve (* 1910 in Tennenlohe ; † 1983 ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Life

The "elephant" in the school yard of the Martin Luther King School in Hanover

Peter Greve was the son of the painter Georg Greve-Lindau and his wife Lisel geb. Anvil. He completed a journeyman's examination as a painter . From 1930 to 1933 he attended the Hamburg School of Applied Arts, in 1933 the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and in 1935 the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . A study visit took him to Paris .

From 1938 Greve worked as a freelance sculptor. He lived in Bissendorf .

In the post-war period, after 1946, Greve worked as a painter and sculptor. From 1950 to 1974 he accepted orders and works on churches and public buildings in Lower Saxony and Hesse. In the 1950s he also took part in group exhibitions in Hanover, Göttingen and Kassel. The Deutsches Theater Göttingen dedicated a solo exhibition to him, as did the library of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover .

Memorial for the victims of the Lengede mine disaster

Since 1951 he was married to the portrait painter and book illustrator Ursula Greve (1919–2007). Together they created u. a. the memorial for the Lengede mine disaster in the Lower Saxony municipality of Lengede .

Greve's son Henning (* 1954) started his career as a steel designer.

When a boulder was found during the construction of the school on Pyrmonter Straße in Oberricklingen in 1956 , the city of Hanover commissioned the sculptor to create a sculpture from it. Today it stands in the school yard of the Martin Luther King School special needs school .

After Peter Greve took part in exhibitions again from 1975, he once formulated his work as follows:

"I see my job in the search for color and shape sounds, rhythms and structures that correspond to seeing and experiencing, but not the naturalistic imitation of the environment."

- Peter Greve: Directory of visual artists in Hanover , Hanover: Schlüter, 1979, p. 71

In 1979 Greve had his residence and studio at Natelsheideweg 63 in Bissendorf.

Works (selection)

• Elephant, schoolyard of the special school Pyrmonter Straße (Hanover), 1956, carved boulder , height 93 cm
• Crucified, ev.-luth. Marienkirche in Hannover-Hainholz , Turmstrasse, 1957
• Copper-driven double door for the Philippus parish in Isernhagen-Süd
• the sculpture "Ascension of Christ" in the church of St. Michaelis Bissendorf (1968)
• rear altar wall ( concrete sculpture ) in the ev.-luth. Bodelschwinghkirche Ledeburg-Stöcken in Hanover

literature

• Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): new plastic in hannover / sense of art, patronage, urban aesthetics / an example in the mirror of two decades. Steinbock-Verlag, Hanover 1967, pp. 16, 80 u. ö.

Web links

Commons : Peter Greve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} new plastic in hannover ...
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ev.-Luth. St. Philippus-Kirchengemeinde Hannover-Isernhagen Süd  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 71
4. ↑ People who were a formative personality for Bissendorf and / or the immediate neighborhood (Wennebostel, Scherenbostel). penultimate article: Greve, Ursula (1919-2007)
5. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Turmstrasse. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 209
6. ↑ Helmut Neuber: Chronicle of our parish. Ev. Lutheran parish of St. Michaelis Bissendorf.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Thoughts of the architect Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Rauda on the design of the Bodelschwingh church community center of the ev.-luth. Ledeburg-Stöcken parish in Hanover. ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2012 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.