Rudi Warmuth
Rudi Warmuth (born July 10, 1931 in Frankfurt a. M .; † March 28, 2015 there ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Rudi Warmuth comes from a family of sculptors. In 1952 he graduated from the Liebiggymnasium in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . From 1952 to 1956 he studied at the Städelschule with Hans Mettel , from 1956 he was a master student and a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . During this time he already carried out his first public contracts. In 1958 he traveled to Rome for six months with a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service , where he lived in the Villa Massimo . In the same year he was represented with a work at the world exhibition in Brussels. From 1970 to 1978 Warmuth was an art teacher in Mühlheim near Offenbach. In 1978 he moved to Spain near Almeria .
His work - executed in terracotta, bronze and stone - reveals suggestions from Henry Moore .
Works
- Memorial, 1958 (Haarheim)
- War memorial, 1959 (Heddernheim, garden authority)
- World War I and II Memorial, 1960 (Heddernheim)
- World War I and II memorial, 1961 (Mammolsheim, cemetery)
- Relief sculpture, 1963 (Niederrad, Catholic Church parish hall)
- Facade relief, 1963 (Niederrad, lending library)
- Fountain for Volker von Alzey, 1965 (Alzey)
- Concrete wall, 1968/69 (Darmstadt, Evangelical Center at the rear of the main train station)
literature
- Alexander Bastek (arr.): Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel , Frankfurt a. M .: Städel 2006, ISBN 9783935283113 , p. 265.
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| SURNAME | Warmuth, Rudi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2015 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |