Peter Marggraf (sculptor, 1947)

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The artist Peter Marggraf in October 2014

Peter Marggraf (* 1947 in Ehlbeck near Lüneburg) is a German sculptor , draftsman , printer and book maker.

Career

On October 7th, 2014, when setting up his exhibition “Once only very quiet” with bronze sculptures and prints in the Marktkirche in Hanover

From 1965 Peter Marggraf studied at the Werkkunstschule in Hanover with Helmut Rogge. In 1970 he studied at the State University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Jochen Hiltmann . From 1975 to 1979 Peter Marggraf was given a teaching position for sculptural design at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences . He then studied in 1975 at the State University of Fine Arts Braunschweig with Emil Cimiotti . In 1981 he was a master student with Emil Cimiotti. In 1984 he received the Lower Saxony Art Prize (young talent scholarship). In 1996 Peter Marggraf founded the San Marco hand press . In 1999, Peter Marggraf stayed for two months on a working grant at the German Study Center in Venice .

Portrait Peter Marggraf 2014

Peter Marggraf's work was included in the " Lower Saxony artist database and estate archive ".

Clay sculptures

"But there is someone sitting in front of a pile of broken glass and trying, defiant and unswerving like an archaeologist, to put together a figure again, to make this image, this person whole again. Although he can give him back his hands or the full lips of his mouth or the fine eyelashes on the closed eyelids - but he can't finish, he can't finish, healing is not possible here now. To want to create a whole person, that would be the same arrogance, the same hubris that previously led to destruction So we see in the sculptures by Peter Marggraf what he as an individual can save from the image of man with his art. Not a completely hopeless state - that is the consolation for us. But it may be that this is the consolation one of Sisyphus - therein lies the challenge for us. But perhaps we actually cannot avoid imagining Sisyphus as a happy person. "

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  • Two life-size clay figures

Bronze sculptures

"Despite their small height, his wax sculptures suggest an inherent greatness and dignity that is rooted in an intensive, almost meditative creative process. Because Marggraf's wax was literally shaped" in the hand "and took shape, the sculptures have an intimacy that Body awareness and spiritual feeling radiate equally. The included silence as a moment of contemplation is inherent in all of Peter Marggraf's works. "

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  • Peter Marggraf. Figure, arms crossed in front of the chest 2014 · Bronze on steel · Height 73 cm

  • Peter Marggraf. Figure with raised arm · bronze on steel · height 73 cm

  • Peter Marggraf. Figure, shrinking back 2009 bronze height 37 cm

  • Peter Marggraf. Squatting figure 2006 bronze on steel height 19 cm

  • Peter Marggraf. Crouching figure 2011 bronze height 53 cm

San Marco hand press

"In 1996, the sculptor Peter Marggraf founded the San Marco hand press. He sets texts and poems by hand or on the linotype in lead and then prints them on a hand pot. He binds the individual layers into books by hand and places original graphics in them."

"Marggraf is actually a sculptor, known for his idiosyncratic terracotta sculptures, almost life-size meditative figures. And the existential interest in the situation of humans also determines the selection of texts with which he deals as a printer. (...) So he printed Trakl, Kafka, Beckett, Büchner. This resulted in a series of wonderful frottages of large wooden letters with Ingeborg Bachmann's cycle of poems "Lieder auf der Flucht", large-format sheets that look as if they were carved in stone. A unique portfolio. "

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  • Crucifige, crucifige, eum! A cassette that Peter Marggraf made in 2009.

  • A cassette for the creation of the book “Märzwinter” with poems by Hans Georg Bulla , which Peter Marggraf produced in spring 2013.

  • Gardening. Eva Taylor poems with an etching by Peter Marggraf, 2010.

  • Visitation. Peter Gosse love stories with two etchings by Peter Marggraf, 2005.

  • Now he is touching me. A dance of death - Drawn and rubbed by Peter Marggraf in summer 2008.

  • Passio. The St. John Passion . Made in 2013 by Peter Marggraf.

  • The sculptor Peter Marggraf sets books on the "Linotype" line typesetting machine in lead for letterpress printing

  • The sculptor Peter Marggraf prints books on the Heidelberg crucible

Books, folders and cassettes

Books (a selection)

Lenz. A colored pencil drawing by Peter Marggraf from the "Lenz" box.
Woyzeck. A monotype by Peter Marggraf from the "Woyzeck" case
Crucified. An etching by Peter Marggraf from the "Passio" case.
Dance. Peter Marggraf draws and paints a 7 m long dance of death based on a poem by Clemens Umbricht. An excerpt is shown here. The dance of death lies as a fan-fold in a cassette.
  • What's to come. Poems by Hans Georg Bulla (with an etching).
  • A starving artist. Story by Franz Kafka (with an etching).
  • Sebastian in a dream. Poems by Georg Trakl (with three etchings).
  • Woyzeck. Seal by Georg Büchner (with three etchings).
  • Lenz. Seal by Georg Büchner (with three etchings).
  • Dream images - a dance of death. Poems by Heinrich Heine (with three etchings).
  • The transformation. Story by Franz Kafka (with two etchings).
  • Songs on the run. Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann (with three etchings).
  • Invocation of the great bear. Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann (with two etchings).
  • It was called Venice. Poems by Anna Maria Carpi (with an etching).
  • Late autumn in Venice. Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (with leaves from Venetian sketchbooks).
  • Wave back. Three stories by Hans Georg Bulla (with graphics from 1986 to 2011).
  • Passio. The St. John Passion (with drawings and prints from 1980 to 2013).
  • The dream of Venice. Poems by Theodor Däubler (with watercolors from Venice and a text by Walter Jens ).
  • Wound pictures. Poems by Michael Hillen (with an etching).
  • Letter to the father. Franz Kafka (with charcoal drawings from 1990).
  • He is bareheaded, barefoot. Samuel Beckett (with an etching).
  • The death in venice. Thomas Mann (with imprinted woodcuts).

Folders and cassettes (a selection)

Dances of Death (a selection)

Publicly owned work

Sculptures, books and folders

  • Collection of the district of Cuxhaven
  • Collection of the State of Lower Saxony
  • Collection of the city of Hanover
  • Collection of the Burgwedel community
  • Collection of the city of Garbsen
  • Collection of the Lower Saxony State Library Hanover
  • Artothek of the city of Neustadt am Rbge.
  • Paul Gerhardt parish Sarstedt
  • Collection of the district of Hanover
  • Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel
  • German Study Center Venice
  • Kreissparkasse Neustadt am Rbge.
  • Liebfrauenkirche Neustadt am Rbge.
  • Mariensee Monastery
  • Collection of the Stadtsparkasse Hannover
  • Collection of the Sparkasse Wolgast
  • Literature office in Hanover
  • Lilly Library, Indiana University / USA.
  • Heerbrugg University Library (Switzerland)
  • Lyrik-Kabinett, University of Munich
  • German Literature Archive Marbach
  • University of Frankfurt a. M.
  • Diaconal Services Hanover
  • Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Dresden
  • Lenau House in Pécs, Hungary
  • Saxon State Library, State and University Library Dresden
  • University of Hanover
  • Provincial Library Bregenz, Austria
  • Hildesheim Cathedral Museum (Brigitte and Gerhard Hartmann Collection)
  • St. Michael, Göttingen
  • Diakonie-Kolleg Wolfenbüttel
  • Martin Luther Church Borken / Westphalia

Literature (selection)

  • Peter Marggraf-Plastic Objects, Merkin-Mövs Gallery, Hanover 1975
  • Torso as a principle, Kasseler Kunstverein, 1982
  • Peter Marggraf - Terracotta, Galerie Weise Hanover, 1982
  • Peter Marggraf - drawing and sculpture, Marburger Kunstverein, 1983
  • "On the side of death I know life" Ort der Augen, Blätter für Literatur aus Sachsen-Anhalt, 3/2003, Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben
  • Danse macabre 1493 - 2003, Wendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, 2004
  • The artist and book maker Peter Marggraf and the Serenissima, Bartkowiaks forum book art 2005/2006, Hamburg
  • Silent dialogues, Landestrost Castle Neustadt a. Rbge., Region Hannover, 2007
  • Just once very quiet, Marktkirche Hannover, 2014
  • Dances of death. Graphics from the Hartmann Collection. Hildesheim Cathedral Museum, 2017
  • Hartmann Collection - Cassettes. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2017

Web links

Commons : Peter Marggraf (* 1947)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Georg Bulla. From the speech at the opening of the exhibition "Peter Marggraf. Printing as a sculptor" in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library Hanover, 1994
  2. ↑ Kurt Märzhäuser. From the foreword of the catalog "Stille Dialoge", Schloss Landestrost Neustadt a. Rbge., Region Hannover, 2007
  3. ↑ Homepage of Peter Marggraf
  4. ^ Peter Piontek in "Forum", issue 4/98 (Literature Office Hannover)
  5. ↑ Homepage of Peter Marggraf
  6. ↑ Homepage of Peter Marggraf
  7. ↑ Homepage of Peter Marggraf
  8. ↑ Homepage of Peter Marggraf
personal data
SURNAME Marggraf, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, draftsman, printer and book maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehlbeck near Lüneburg