Raimund Böll

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Raimund Böll (born February 19, 1947 in Cologne ; † August 1, 1982 in Bad Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt ) was a German visual artist and sculptor who was best known as a metal sculptor .

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Raimund Böll grew up in a left-wing intellectual family. He was the second of four sons of the later Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll and his wife and translator Annemarie Böll ; the first son Christoph had died in 1945, the year he was born.

In May 1961, at the age of 14, he worked with his parents as an escape helper ; they fetched the Czech pianist Jaroslava Mandlová (also Mandl ) from the Czechoslovakia in Heinrich Böll's car, which was equipped with a hiding place, and thus enabled her to escape. Mandlová was the wife of the Czech-German-Jewish musician, philosopher and author Herbert Thomas Mandl , who had fled the ČSSR in 1960 and at that time lived as a guest with Raimund's parents and worked as a private secretary for his father.

At the end of the 1960s he began his studies in sculpture and metal sculpture at the Cologne factory schools with professors Kurt Schwippert and Anton Berger and was appointed master class in 1973. Böll was known for his material-intensive “welding work” and rough metal sculptures, as well as for his filigree metal objects (the school of Prof. Berger). He had one of his first exhibitions in 1969 in the Turmgalerie in Villip near Bonn , where his metal sculptures and objects were exhibited together with pictures by the Indo-German artist Lila Mookerjee , his girlfriend at the time and later first wife. Mookerjee studied painting at the Cologne Werkschulen, then moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where she was a master student of Professor Rupprecht Geiger .

As part of the search for members of the “ Baader Meinhof Group ”, Raimund Böll's apartment in Cologne was also searched at the beginning of 1974, since his military ID card and his wife's expired passports had been found on a suspect. The search did not reveal any suspicions against him. He and his wife told the Cologne police that at the beginning of 1974 they had received the Baader-Meinhof helper Margrit Schiller , who was wanted by an arrest warrant, in their Cologne apartment .

The Axel Springer Group's newspapers then tried to move Raimund Böll into the vicinity of a “Baader Meinhof complicity” and to portray him as ready to use violence; The title of the Bild newspaper was “Böll junior has dolls beheaded in Cologne - what the son of the Nobel Prize winner understands by art” . One of the “creations” of Böll's son, according to Bild , is a machine that smashes dolls and which he describes as a “symbol of aggression” . His father, who had already got himself into the firing line of the Springer papers, took this with him as an opportunity to defend himself against this type of reporting with the means of the narrator and satirist; In July 1974 he published his short story Die Lost Ehre der Katharina Blum , in which he sharply criticized the tabloid press .

In 1976 Raimund Böll moved to Switzerland and married the Swiss Heidi Bill for the second time. From 1979 Raimund Böll ran a sculpture school in Hochwald in the Swiss canton of Solothurn , which was completed by the visual artist Alex Zwalen and where the sculptor Tobias Mattern trained in stone carving from 1979 to 1981 .

Raimund Böll died at the age of 35 from complications from cancer.

Works (selection)

  • Execution machine , bronze sculpture 1969

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Double exhibition together with pictures by Lila Mookerjee: Metal sculptures (including the bronze sculpture Execution Machine ) in the Tower Gallery in Villip, 1969
  • Solo exhibitions: sculptures, objects and graphics, photographs and applied work in:
    • Trotte local museum in Arlesheim , Switzerland , January 16, 1998 to February 8, 1998
    • Art Forum in Bonn, February 20, 1998 to April 3, 1998

literature

  • Raimund Böll: Public contact with the boxing machine . In: Kunstreport 2/3 '75, p. 36; Ed .: Deutscher Künstlerbund e. V. , Berlin 1975.
  • Heinrich Böll: In memory of Raimund Böll, geb. February 19, 1947 Cologne, died August 1, 1982 Unterlengenhardt . Self-rel. d. Author, Hürtgenwald-Grosshau 1982 (folder, 8 pages). (The portfolio contains, among other things, several photographs of the works of Raimund Böll and facsimile manuscripts by Heinrich Böll as well as a loosely enclosed acknowledgment with a colored print of Raimund Böll's work Rene Muta 76. )
  • Adam C. Oellers : Raimund Böll (1947–1982): Sculptures, objects and graphics, photographs and applied work . Kunst Forum, Bonn 1997, exhibition catalog. (Exhibitions: Ortsmuseum Trotte , Arlesheim, January 16 to February 8, 1998 and Kunst Forum , Bonn, February 20 to April 3, 1998)
  • Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signature Lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-014937-0 , p. 70.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Herbert Thomas Mandl , report by Norbert Stirken in the Rheinische Post of August 21, 1995, section: The Böll family worked as escape helpers ; on the Boer Verlag website (accessed February 15, 2009).
  2. ^ Christiane Grefe : Where is Böll? In: The time . No. 32. August 2, 2007
  3. ↑ a b c First exhibition in the Turm-Galerie in Villip on the website of the Turm-Galerie-Bonn , >> "Current and old photos", photo by Raimund Böll (3rd from left) with his bronze sculpture Execution Machine at the opening on 26 June 1969 (accessed February 15, 2009).
  4. ^ Jurist from Heidelberg among the anarchists ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from February 8, 1974.
  5. ↑ Böll jr .: Anarchists never supported! ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from February 9, 1974.
  6. ↑ The Bild newspaper referred to Raimund Böll's bronze sculpture Execution Machine .
  7. ↑ a b Böll's ZEITUNG story: Now it's fucking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1974 ( online - Feb. 15, 2009 ).
  8. ↑ Alex Zwalen - Curriculum , on Alex Zwalen's website (accessed February 15, 2009).
  9. ↑ The Turm-Galerie is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a joint exhibition , article by Stephanie Gläser from June 2004, on the website of the artist Hellmuth Eichner (accessed on February 15, 2009).
  10. ^ Exhibition directory >> Raimund Böll (accessed on February 15, 2009).
  11. ↑ a b Exhibition catalog 1998 >> Solo exhibitions in Arlesheim and Bonn in 1998 (accessed on April 21, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Böll, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1982
Place of death Bad Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt