Rudi Scheuermann

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Pfau pedestrian zone in Frankenthal
Composition with stereogeometric elements (1971) - Street of Sculptures (St. Wendel)
Stone figure of the elector Balduin of Luxembourg on the Balduin Bridge in Koblenz
Reclining peacock, bronze, 1976

Rudi Scheuermann (born September 25, 1929 in Neustadt an der Haardt ; † March 10, 2016 in Koblenz ) was a German sculptor .

Life and work

Rudi Scheuermann around 1960

Rudi Scheuermann was born into a stonemason family, he had six siblings and his father was a stonemason. After an apprenticeship as a stonemason from 1944 to 1948 in Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen , he attended the Landeskunstschule in Mainz from 1949 to 1954 . There he passed his state examination and was a master class student. In 1955 he attended the University of Fine Arts in Munich . Free studies in Switzerland and France followed. From 1956 to 1958 he took a studio grant from the Mainz Ministry of Culture in Koblenz , where he has lived and worked as a freelance artist since then (in the Rübenach district ). In 1960 he took part in the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg and in 1972 in an International Sculptor Symposium in Rome . Rudi Scheuermann died on March 10, 2016 in Koblenz.

For Rudi Scheuermann, sculpture was an inner necessity of life: “For me, sculpture is such a fascinating, albeit difficult and slow, thing that I could never do it after work. I firmly believe that hobby and art are mutually exclusive. Is it a hobby, is it not an art; but if it is art, it can never be a hobby. Do you have a hobby of sculpture? What normal person pursues a hobby that consists of 90 percent dust, dirt, noise, failure, anger with art politics, anger with the media, sometimes also from need and despair? "(Rudi Scheuermann 2005)

Works

The first exhibition participations took place in the late 1950s in Kaiserslautern ( Pfalzgalerie ), Mannheim (Kunsthalle), Koblenz (AKM) and Gorizia , Italy (Biennale der Jugend). His first state commission was in 1957 to design the fountain in the Koblenz justice building. Since then he has created numerous works of art in public spaces, among others in Neuwied , Oberwesel (sculpture park), Koblenz (1967: reconstruction of the figures above the portal of the former Dominican monastery , 1975: Baldwin monument on the Balduin Bridge , 1978: Rittersturz monument , and some fountains) . In 1967 he presented his works for the first time in a solo exhibition in the Teufel gallery in Koblenz. From 1970 to 1972 he took part in three “International Sculptor Symposia” in Kaiserslautern, in Saarland ( Street of Sculptures (St. Wendel) ) and in Rome / Tivoli.

Sculptures in the field of architecture and landscape (excerpt)

  • 1957 Koblenz, main justice building, fountain (marble)
  • 1958 Kaiserslautern, advanced high school, Brunnen (shell limestone)
  • 1960 Lahnstein, memorial, stele (trachyte)
  • 1961 Koblenz, State Police School, Brunnen (bronze)
  • 1964 Trier, tax office, free sculpture (marble)
  • 1973 Koblenz, vocational schools, double sculpture (sandstone)
  • 1974 Mainz, University Hospital, Brunnen (granite)
  • 1975 Andernach, State Psychiatric Clinic, sculpture block (bronze)
  • 1975 Ahrweiler, secondary school, climbing sculpture (basalt)
  • 1975 Koblenz, Baldiun Bridge, bridge sculpture (basalt)
  • 1975 Koblenz, three Koblenz local poets on the courtyard side of the town hall
  • 1976 Neuwied, commercial schools, free sculpture (sandstone)
  • 1977 Koblenz, knight fall, monument (basalt)
  • 1979 Andernach, school center, gate sculpture (sandstone)
  • 1979 Neuwied, State Home for the Blind, tactile sculpture (marble)
  • 1979–1982 Hagenbuch am Steinhuder Meer, design of the Fleischut family home (20 objects)
  • 1983 Linz, hospital, relief stele (trachyte)
  • 1986 Primary School Windhagen, group of animals (Trachyte)
  • 1987 Bad Kreuznach, Diskonie, Brunnen (granite)
  • 1989 Koblenz, Beethoven memorial, head (bronze)
  • 1990 Duisburg, bus depot, relief stele (basalt)
  • 1991 Langen, Lutherplatz, fountain and book (granite)
  • 1994 Ingelheim, day care center, large plastic play area
  • 1996 Neuwied, school for the deaf, six sculptures; Oberwesel. Sculpture park
  • 1996 Linz, high school, sculpture (basalt)
  • 1999 Koblenz, University of Applied Sciences, granite disc stele (440 cm)
  • 2001 In the "Rhenish Westerwald" stone sculptures in basalt and trachyte

Awards

  • 1964: Sponsorship award from the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1973: Kaiser Lothar Prize of the European Association of Fine Artists from the Eifel and Ardennes (EVBK)
  • Fish, marble, 1990
    1982: Ludwigshafen City Art Prize for Sculpture
  • 1984: State Prize Rhineland-Palatinate (art and architecture)
  • 1993: Hanns-Sprung-Prize of the AKM

literature

  • Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Publishing house for advertising papers, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005, p. 466f.

Web links

Commons : Rudi Scheuermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Rhein-Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Scheuermann, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2016
Place of death Koblenz