Roland Martin (sculptor)

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“Three Seated” , 1981, - Tuttlingen

Roland Martin (born July 29, 1927 in Tuttlingen ) is a German sculptor .

biography

At the age of 16, Martin was deployed as an air force helper in 1943, and was taken prisoner towards the end of the war. In 1946 he passed his Abitur at the Tuttlingen Oberschule, today's Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium . From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Bernstein School in Glatt with Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer and Paul Kälberer . In 1950 he was briefly at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Freiburg branch in Freiburg im Breisgau with Wilhelm Gerstel , and from 1951 to 1952 he was a student of Fritz Nuss .

Martin has been working as a freelance sculptor in Tuttlingen since 1952. Jörg Bach is one of his students .

While abstract reliefs and sculptures made of metal and aluminum were made up to around 1980 , Martin has increasingly turned to human figures since the mid-1970s. Social relationships are represented in groups of figures. The figures are cast in bronze , aluminum or Keramin.

In Baden-Württemberg alone there are a total of 144 sculptures, fountains, steles, mosaics, glass windows and war memorials by Martin, and he created more than 80 works for public spaces. In 2007 Martin was awarded the City of Tuttlingen's Culture Prize. Martin is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the Deutscher Künstlerbund , in whose annual exhibitions he took part several times between 1964 and 1975.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

  • 2008 Roland Martin - Traces in the District , Tuttlingen District Office
  • 2009 retrospective, Galerie Wohlhüter, Leibertingen - Thalheim

Works in public space (selection)

  • 1959: Abstract relief, Tuttlingen
  • War memorial. Cemetery, Trossingen-Schura
  • 1963: Memorial in the former Spaichingen concentration camp
  • 1964: Concrete relief, Glatt moated castle
  • 1968: Two boy statues in the Fallen Memorial Hall in the Tuttlingen Oberschule (in today's Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium )
  • 1974: untitled, Freiburg
  • Silver column , Olympic Village, Munich
  • 1978: Freiplastik, Tuttlingen
  • 1981: Wind turbines, Tuttlingen
  • 1981: Three seated people, Tuttlingen
  • 1985: family, Sindelfingen
  • 1995: He's already dead, just don't know yet, Wasserschloss Glatt
  • 2006: Dammglonker, Langenargen (Lake Constance)

Photos (selection)

  • Abstract relief 1959

  • War memorial Trossingen-Schura

  • Cement Relief 1964

  • Silver column , 1972

  • untitled 1974

  • Free sculpture 1978

  • Family 1985

  • He's already dead, just doesn't know it in 1995

  • Dammglonker 2006

Literature (selection)

  • Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen (ed.), Roland Martin, works from 1954 - 1988, Tuttlingen, 1988
  • Michael Klant (ed.): Skulptur in Freiburg vol. 1, modo Verlag, Freiburg, 1998, page 114 / f (text: Nadine Heckeler), ISBN 3-922675-76-X
  • Hartwig E. Steiner: Roland Martin - figurations . Amm & Steiner, Stuttgart, 2006, ISBN 3-927169-08-0
  • Hartwig E. Steiner: Roland Martin - sculptures in a circle , works of art by Roland Martin in the Tuttlingen district. Amm & Steiner, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Schäfer: School life in the post-war period: A Tuttlinger high school class between 1945 and 1954 . 1st edition. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, Chapter 2.7 The Fallen Memorial Hall with the two statues of boys by Roland Martin ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Roland Martin, Figurationen, Amm & Steiner, Stuttgart, 2006, pp. 14/15, text: Peter Renz
  3. ↑ Roland Martin work reminds of those who have fallen . Schwäbische Zeitung, August 31, 2009
  4. ↑ He always gives appropriate answers . Südkurier, April 7, 2009
  5. ^ City of Tuttlingen awards culture prize for the first time . City of Tuttlingen, July 5, 2007
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed on November 11, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  7. ↑ Roland Martin: Silver column . (Illustration)

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SURNAME Martin, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen