Richard Bampi

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Richard Gustav Bampi (born June 16, 1896 in Amparo near São Paulo, Brazil, † July 10, 1965 in Kandern ) was a German ceramist and painter.

Life

Monument in the Freiburg city ​​garden in honor of the erpel, who is said to have warned the population about the bombing of November 27, 1944
Wall relief based on a design by Julius Bissier

Richard Bampi was the son of the architect Gustav Bampi (born September 10, 1873 in Wöllau in Carinthia, † 1925 in Freiburg). During his school days from 1902 to 1914 he attended schools in Lörrach and Karlsruhe. He began his career as a graphic artist. As a soldier in the First World War, he was wounded off Verdun . From 1918 he studied architecture, first at the Technical University of Munich , then from 1919 under Walter Gropius and Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In December 1919 he married in Heidelberg Elisabeth Ilka Seyfried (born March 22, 1896 in Heidelberg). From 1921 to 1923 he continued his studies in Florence and Vienna, then emigrated to Brazil and studied in Rio de Janeiro from 1923 to 1926. He later returned to Germany and started his own ceramics workshop in Kandern in the southern Black Forest in 1927 . He founded his manufacture under the name Fayence-Manufaktur Kandern GmbH ; from 1937 onwards it was called the Faience Manufactory Richard Bampi Kandern . His work includes, among other things, pottery statuettes and cubist vases. Later he used terracotta a lot and developed various new colored glazes.

Richard Bampi's works have been shown at many exhibitions around the world, including in New York City (1948), New Delhi (1956), Tokyo (1958), Buenos Aires (1962) and Faenza (1963). He received numerous awards, including the State Prize from Bavaria (1953), from Baden-Württemberg (1953, 1961) and the Hessian State Prize in 1954 . He received the Cannes Grand Prix in 1956 and the gold medal from Prague in 1962. In 1963 he received the “lever thanks” of the Leerrach Lever Association , and in 1965 the title of Professor. In his will, he decreed that his estate should be auctioned and the proceeds used as the basis for the Richard Bampi Prize for young ceramists. This has been awarded in a different city every three years since 1969. Richard-Bampi-Strasse in Kandern is named after Bampi.

His master student was Horst Kerstan , who later took over and continued to run Bampi's house and studio.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As Bampi's successor, he achieved his own size. Badische Zeitung , accessed on April 24, 2017.

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SURNAME Bampi, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bampi, Richard Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Amparo near São Paulo, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1965
Place of death Kandern