Peter Horn (sculptor)

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Peter Horn Werner (1908–1969)

Peter Horn (born April 8, 1908 in Munich , † April 11, 1969 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German - Chilean sculptor in the field of sacred art .

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Horn studied at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with the sculptors Heinrich Waderé and Meike Blecker .

He came to Chile in 1932 through a misunderstanding. He was hoping for an alleged scholarship from the bishop of the Archdiocese of La Serena in the Chilean coastal city of La Serena , although it turned out that the bishop was not looking for artists, but people who felt called to a religious life.

To earn his way back home, he began to paint the ceilings and walls of churches and was so successful that he was busy for the next four years.

Sculpture 59 cm high in Madera

After spending a year in his home country, he joined the Swiss Abroad living in Osorno in 1937 , who were granted Chilean civil rights by the government. At that time Peter Horn carved the vow of the group in wood in the vestibule of the German School Osorno.

When he returned to Germany, the war began and he had to do military service in Poland and France . He was later assigned as an interpreter to the Blue Division fighting in Russia with Spanish volunteers and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . There he devoted himself to the art of carving , where he also used horse bones for lack of wood.

After the war he first settled in Ried im Innkreis and later moved with his families to Passau . In 1950 he decided to emigrate permanently to Chile, where he was very productive until his death in 1969.

He lived and worked again in Osorno and in 1957 moved to the capital Santiago de Chile. His works were widely distributed in Chile.

Mary Conception Chapel on Cerro San Christóbal in Santiago de Chile with frescoes, reliefs and sculptures by Peter Horn

His now best-known works include his work in and around the Chapel of the Conception of the Virgin Mary in San Christóbal on the summit of Cerro San Christóbal . In the course of restoration work between 2007 and 2010 (costs around 130,000 euros), comparative studies with other works by Horn in Chile and memories of one of his sons, Gabriel, established the authorship of the murals, reliefs and sculptures in and outside the temple. These were originally attributed to the Chilean painter Pedro Subercaseaux Errázuriz .

Horn was married to the painter Josefine Feja-Horn (* 1913) from Ried im Innkreis . The two had seven children, including the sculptor Miguel Horn .

Works

Sculptor Virgin Mary
Way of the Cross created by Peter Horn for the cathedral in Chillán

Numerous works by Horn in public space are in Passau and the surrounding area and in Santiago de Chile and the surrounding area.

  • Relief Death of St. Josef , Christmas crib in the parish church in Ried im Innkreis
  • Huge wooden cross (Wooden Christ) in Rinconada de Silva (Rinconada de Los Andes), about nine meters high and five meters wide, weight about 5,000 kg; it is the main attraction of the village and is the destination of regional pilgrimages, the location offers a panoramic view over the valley of the Río Aconcagua (1935)
  • Wooden cross in the Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross in Valparaíso
  • Way of the Cross, sculptures, altar, statue of the Virgin Mary in the Catholic Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception in Vitacura
  • Way of the Cross and wooden sculptures in Chillán Cathedral (1950s)

Exhibitions

Exhibitions with works by Horn took place in Santiago de Chile in 1961 and 1996.

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography, in: Web presence of Artistas Plàsticos Chilenos (Spanish) accessed on October 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Hans-Ruedi Schenkel: Swiss in Chilean Switzerland queried on October 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Heinz Moser: Thoughts solidified into sculptures, Miguel Horn and his great patron , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of October 27, 2011 queried on October 10, 2015
  4. ↑ Murales de Peter Horn en templo des San Christóbal: Un hallazgo inesperado, in: El Merkurio of August 15, 2010 queried on October 10, 2015
  5. ↑ Cerro San Christóbal eo Santuário Imaculada Cenceicao, em Santiago do Chile, web presence of Cronicasmacaenses accessed on October 10, 2015
  6. ↑ Chile: The unique church art of Peter Horn, in: Webpräsenz on Adveniat.de ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 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. queried on October 8, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adveniat.de
  7. ↑ Katrin Stockhammer: Rencontre: Two artists meet in the Museum Volkskundehaus , in: Bezirksrundschau from April 15, 2015 queried on October 10, 2015
  8. ^ Edith Rabenstein: Celebrated in Chile: The Passau artist Peter Horn. pnp.de, April 10, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Iglesia Luterana de La Santa Cruz, Valparaiso consulted on October 10, 2015
  10. ↑ Parroquia de La Inmaculada Concepción consulted on October 10, 2015
  11. ^ Way of the Cross, in: Guide to the Cathedral of Chillán, p. 18f, queried on October 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Chilean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1969
Place of death Santiago de Chile