Roland Phleps

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Bundelstele 1 cafeteria Freiburg (Photo: 2010)

Roland Phleps (born August 18, 1924 in Sibiu , Romania ; † April 20, 2020 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German sculptor , neurologist and psychiatrist .

life and work

Roland Phleps came from a family of doctors. He passed the school leaving examination at the Brukenthal School in 1943 and was a soldier in 1944/45. After his release from British captivity, he settled in Nürtingen . From 1946 to 1950 he studied medicine in Tübingen and Göttingen and graduated with a state examination and doctorate in Tübingen. From 1951 to 1959 he was an assistant doctor at the clinics in Tübingen, Lübeck, Esslingen and finally Freiburg, where he became a specialist in neurology and psychiatry. From 1959 he settled in Freiburg as a freelance neurologist and psychiatrist.

Since 1983, simple basic geometric shapes such as squares, rectangles, circular areas, ellipses or parallelograms have determined the artist's work. Aluminum sheets, from 1992 stainless steel sheets, he bent into spatial constructs that he himself assigned to Concrete Art .

From 1993 to 2000 Roland Phleps took part in various solo and group exhibitions in galleries and in public places. Since 1997 there have been permanent exhibitions with several of his works in the Stadtgarten , on Waltersberg and in the clinical center in Freiburg . In 2010 another permanent exhibition “Concrete Art by Roland Phleps” was created at Sponeck Castle in Jechtingen am Kaiserstuhl .

The artist lived and worked in Freiburg, where he died in April 2020 at the age of 95. He left behind his wife and three children, and another son was killed in an accident in the early 1980s.

Foundation for Concrete Art

In 1997 Phleps founded the Roland Phleps Foundation for Concrete Art , and in 1999 a sculpture hall with an exhibition of his works was opened. It regularly hosts exhibitions by artists who are close to Concrete Art . The most famous exhibitors include:

Works in public space (selection)

Terpsichore at the Görgesbau of the TU Dresden
  • Terpsichore , Loretto Hospital in Freiburg and Technical University in Dresden
  • Windspiel , city garden in Freiburg
  • Structure in space (order and chaos) , University Hospital in Dresden
  • Dipylon (1997), Botanical Garden in Freiburg
  • Tripylon , University Hospital in Freiburg
  • Big swing , canteen at the University of Freiburg
  • Pas de Deux , Technical University in Dresden
  • Icarus and other large sculptures, sculpture meadow on Waltersberg in Freiburg
  • Alpha I and Alpha II , Danube Art Landscape in Ulm
  • Adelphoi 3 (2005), Kulturspeicher Würzburg
  • Anthos (2006), Kurpark in Badenweiler
  • Bundle stele 1 (2007), place of the university in Freiburg and bundle stele 2 VIRIBUS UNITIS (2008) in front of the Transylvania hall in Sibiu , Romania
  • Triangular pillar (2013), in Nürtingen

literature

  • Roland Phleps, steel sculptures - selection of works in 9 illustrated books, 1992 to 2017, Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997 to 2017, vol. 9: ISBN 978-3-7930-9893-5

Works in Freiburg

  • Dipylon , 1992, Botanical Garden

  • Adelphoi V 1995, at the sculpture hall of the Foundation for Concrete Art

  • Sculpture meadow

  • Sculpture meadow

  • Sculpture meadow

  • Windspiel , 2000, Stadtgarten

Web links

Commons : Roland Phleps  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FOUNDATION FOR CONCRETE ART ROLAND PHLEPS. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Herbert M. Hurka: A whole world has gone - to the death of Roland Phleps. Badische Zeitung, April 26, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Works in public space
  4. ^ "Ephemeral, but not in vain": Obituary for the artist and art patron Dr. Roland Phleps , accessed July 7, 2020
  5. ↑ Selection from the participant list
  6. ↑ Works in public space
personal data
SURNAME Phleps, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, neurologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2020
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau