Robert Sturm (sculptor)

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Robert Sturm

Robert Sturm  (* 1935 in Bad Elster , † 1994 in Fulda ) was a German sculptor , ceramicist and university professor .

Life

From 1956 to 1962, Sturm studied sculpture with Walter Linck , Brigitte Meyer-Denninghoff and Bernhard Bylandt-Rheydt, as well as ceramics with Walter Popp and art education with Ernst Röttger at the Kunsthochschule Kassel . He was a master student of the sculpture class and from 1960 to 1961 and assistant to Ernst Röttger for basic teaching and plastic design.

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , Sturm undertook study trips to Yugoslavia , Greece and Turkey from 1959 to 1961 . From 1971 he taught as a professor at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences . After his appointment as a member of the Academie Internationale de la Ceramique, Geneva, in 1986 he also joined Group 83 - German Ceramists.

In 1980, Sturm co-founded the Kecskemét Group in Hungary. Eight years later he was hired as a guest lecturer at the University of Haifa in Israel  and as a guest lecturer at the European Art Academy in Trier in 1990 . Sturm died in the middle of work in 1994.

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Since 1959, Sturm worked with sculptures made of various materials ( stone , bronze , steel and aluminum) as well as with graphics in various techniques. Since 1968 he found his desired expression in ceramic materials and in the early 1980s he developed his own distinctive visual language in the plastic field. By developing a special ceramic technique, the high- fire raku technique - a combination of the classic East Asian raku technique with the hardness of high-fire stoneware - Sturm found the appropriate means of expression for his head and torso sculptures, which make up most of his oeuvre. Its forms are always fragmentary, without reaching a final solidity, a whole.

Prizes and awards

  • 1959: Member of the German National Academic Foundation
  • 1975: Höhr-Grenzhausen, "German Ceramics '75"
  • 1985: Prize from the City of Offenburg and the Ortenau Artists' Circle
  • 1986: Appointment as a member of the Academie Internationale de la Ceramique, Geneva
  • 1989: 1st prize for ceramic sculpture, Westerwaldpreis Höhr-Grenzhausen, at the "Deutsche Keramik '89"
  • 1990: Le Prix de l'Association Vallaurienne d'Organisations Culturelles et Artistiques, Vallauris
  • 1990: Honorary award on the III. World Triennial Exhibition of Small Ceramics in Zagreb

Exhibitions (selection)

Sturm took part in numerous group exhibitions since 1960, in addition to Germany in several European countries, Australia, New Zealand and Korea.

  • 1984: Edwin-Scharff House Neu-Ulm and State Museum Oldenburg, Württemberg State Museum Stuttgart
  • 1986: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
  • 1987: Galerie Maja Ben, Zurich
  • 1996: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart

Works in public collections (selection)

Working in public space (selection)

  • Kassel, fountain sculpture 1960/61
  • Fulda, relief cross, 1961
  • Casting, large plastic cast aluminum, 1962/64
  • Fulda, fountain sculpture 1964/65
  • Grossenmoor-Ost motorway service station, relief, 1980/81
  • Bad Salzhausen, exercise bath, relief, 1980/81
  • Kassel, Federal Labor Court , Relief, 1987

literature

  • U. Kultermann: Young German Sculptors , Mainz, 1963
  • O. Schindler: New German graphics , Frankenthal 1965
  • Galerie Deisenroth: Keramik, Crumbiegel, Kuhn, Popp, Scheid, Sturm , exhibition catalog Fulda 1969
  • Deisenroth Gallery: Contemporary Ceramics. An exhibition with works by Asshoff, Crumbiegel, Hohlt, Popp, Quillmann, Scheid, Sturm, catalog ed. vd Galerie Deisenroth Fulda, Hanau 1970,
  • Adalbert Klein: What does "modern" mean today in the art of ceramics? , Reports of the German Ceramic Society, Volume 48 (1971), Issue 1, January 1971
  • Hinder / Reimers: Modern ceramics from Germany ; Deidesheim 1971
  • Ekkart blade: Deutsche Keramik '71 , Düsseldorf 1971
  • Lewenstein / Cooper: New Ceramics , London 1974
  • Ekkart blade: German ceramics of the 20th century , Düsseldorf 1978
  • Spielmann: European ceramics since 1950 , Hamburg 1979
  • Reineking von Bock: Ceramics of the 20th Century , Munich 1979
  • Storr-Britz: International Contemporary Ceramics , Cologne 1980
  • CS Hecking: Art on Streets , Cologne 1989
  • E. Sturm: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Fulda , Fulda 1984
  • Ulrich Gertz: Foreword Catalog Robert Sturm "Plastic Relief Graphics" , Fulda 1983
  • U. Philippi: Robert Sturm in “KERAMOS” 102/83
  • Ekkart blade: German ceramics today , Düsseldorf 1984
  • Ulrich Roller: Catalog Robert Sturm Leverkusen , Leverkusen 1985
  • Ulrich Roller: Catalog Ceramic Plastic , Frechen 1988
  • Peter-Winfried Bürkner, Cathy Fleckstein (Ed.): Robert Sturm . Keramion, Museum for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Frechen. 1988.
  • Werner Kirchhoff (Ed.): Plastik, Relief, Grafik, 1960–1983 . (Exhibition catalog). Fulda City Palace, Edwin-Scharff-Haus, Neu-Ulm, State Museum Oldenburg. Fulda 1988.
  • Peter-Winfried Bürkner, Irene density (ed.): Ceramic plastic. Dieter Crumbiegel, Cathy Fleckstein, Robert Sturm . Museum for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Frechen, 1988
  • Ekkart Blade: Master of Ceramics in: Master of Ceramics 1978–1988, Review Outlook, Exhibition Catalog Leverkusen 1989
  • Ingrid Vetter: Keramik in Deutschland 1955–1990 , Arnoldsche Stuttgart, 1997, pages 20 ff., 86, 126–133, 135, 163, 208 ff., 220, 270 f .; ISBN 3-925369-77-5
  • Ingrid Vetter: Modern Ceramics of the 20th Century , Arnoldsche Stuttgart, 2007, pages 20, 28, 41, 68, 73, 116, 193, 225-226, 246, ISBN 978-3-89790-275-6
  • Ingrid Vetter: Walter Popp and his legendary "Kasseler Schule" , Museum for Modern Ceramics Deidesheim, 2014, pages 14, 19, 26; ISBN 978-3-00-046094-4
  • Reinhold Ludwig: Robert Sturm in the Keramion , Foundation Keramion, Frechen, 2016
  • Dieter Crumbiegel: Robert Sturm . Speech on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Robert Sturm" in the Keramion 2016. In: Keramos. Issue 232, No. 2. pp. 65-74.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Well-known ceramic artist taught at the then Fulda University of Applied Sciences , portrait on the pages of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  2. ↑ Capriolus, Group 83 - Association of German ceramist
  3. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: Tönerne Kraft : Underestimated: Ceramic by Robert Sturm. DIE ZEIT, April 1, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Review of his works on the occasion of a posthumous exhibition at Keramion, Frechen 2016
  5. ↑ In: Galerie Theis, ceramics
  6. ↑ Short biography and awards on the pages of Galerie Theis
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, ceramist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Elster
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Fulda