Rudolf Böhm (artist)

Rudolf Böhm (born July 19, 1941 in Markneukirchen ) is a German sculptor and blacksmith .

biography

Rudolf Böhm received his artistic training at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . His later fields of work included art and building, art in public spaces, sculpture and installations.

As a restorer , Rudolf Böhm headed the sculpture workshop in Sanssouci full-time from 1968 . In addition, he himself created numerous sculptures, fountains or relief medallions that found their place in Potsdam and other German locations.

When the Fortunaportal was rebuilt after the fall of the Wall , Rudolf Böhm was in charge of the sculptural work. In his role as head of the sculpture workshop, he made sure that from 1999 the missing sculptures in Park Sanssouci were supplemented and the valuable originals were and will be replaced by good copies.

In addition, Böhm supported the city of Potsdam with artistic advice in the renovation or rebuilding of house facades (including at Humboldtstrasse 3 and 4). Böhm was also an artistic advisor for the restoration of the Great Orphanage in Potsdam .

He has been retired since August 1st, 2006, but continues to work as a sculptor. Kathrin Lange and Saskia Hüneke took over the management of the sculpture workshop.

Böhm has been working on a voluntary basis for the Kiels Gelehrtes Erbe association since 2010 as an artistic advisor for the project to rebuild the statues of the four philosophers in the former college building of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Works (selection)

• 1977: Kleiner Bacchusbrunnen , Brandenburger Straße  71 on the northeast side of the square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Potsdam ; together with Rudolf Rentzsch; in function
• 1978/1980: Memorial plaques in the former eastern passage of the former Potsdam Marstall with portraits of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff and Friedrich Christian Glume
• 1980: Children fishing , drinking fountain, Cotta sandstone , height 1.85 m; Location: Breite Strasse 19, Potsdam
• 1987: The seven ravens based on the fairy tale of the same name , a sandstone fountain stele from which water never gushed due to the lack of water technology; first location in Potsdam , street Zum Teufelssee at the corner of Zum Schlangenfenn in front of a department store ; Implemented in 2015 in Waldstadt II
• 1989: Monument to Peter Joseph Lenné , sandstone , location: Werder , district Petzow, castle park, on a hill on the south bank of the Haussee
• 1989: List of fountains in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf # Böhm ; Havelländer Ring 40, Berlin-Marzahn , was present at the location in 2007
• 2000: Venus and Apollo , high reliefs for the restored Potsdam Hotel am Jägertor , Hegelallee 11
• 2008: Copy of the statue of Venus by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle for the Great Fountain in Sanssouci Park ; white Carrara marble
• 2015: Restoration of the Art Nouveau facade of a residential building in the Nauener Vorstadt in Potsdam
• 2015: Sculptural and artistic support for the reconstruction of the Barberini Palace
• Restoration of the stucco relief on house 17 of the Oberlinhaus in Potsdam
• Restoration of the listed Villa Gericke on Pfingstberg in Potsdam , Puschkinallee
• 2018: Reconstruction of the tympanum relief of the Sermon on the Mount by August Kiß at the Ev. St. Nikolaikirche Potsdam

In total, Rudolf Böhm created eight jewelry fountains , many of them together with Walter Rentzsch .

Honor

Rudolf Böhm was honored for his work as a restorer by the city of Potsdam in 2012 with an entry in the state capital's Golden Book .

Publications

• Rudolf Böhm: The restoration of the sculpture program in the eastern pleasure garden of Sanssouci Park in: Yearbook Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens (PDF) , accessed on January 16, 2017.
• Rudolf Böhm: Recovery of a relief cycle from stucco by Christian Daniel Rauch on a bourgeois villa. Conservation, restoration and reconstruction. In: Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege , Volume 20, 2011, Issue 2, Berlin 2011 / ISSN 0942-3397

literature

• General artist lexicon (AKL): The visual artists of all times and peoples in more than 100 volumes , 1991 ff. Hardcover, approx. 700 pages per volume. De Gruyter Publishing House.
• Saskia Hüneke: Rudolf Böhm, sculptor . 2006, in the catalog of the factory exhibition on the Friendship Island in Potsdam (April 26th - September 24th, 2006), publisher: The Lord Mayor of the City of Potsdam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Artist database , accessed on January 16, 2017.
2. ↑ exhibition catalog
3. ↑ Restoration of the exterior figures of the Church of St. Antonius in Potsdam-Babelsberg , u. a. with brief information on Eckhart Böhm and his father; accessed on January 15, 2017.
4. ↑ The first two leading facades on the Alter Markt completed , accessed on January 15, 2017.
5. ↑ Details Extraordinarily filigree . In: Back then . Magazine for (Art) History, December 16, 2011.
6. ^ Projects of the Kiel learned heritage association , accessed on January 16, 2017.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Oelschläger: Text on the fountain stele The Seven Ravens and more about the artist on www.maz-online.de; May 2, 2016, accessed January 15, 2017.
8. ↑ Illustration and text on the Bacchus Fountain , accessed on January 15, 2017.
9. ↑ Marstall on potsdam-chronik.de
10. ↑ Illustration and detailed description of the Fischende Kinder fountain by Rudolf Böhm , accessed on January 15, 2017.
11. ↑ Peter Joseph Lenné Memorial , accessed on January 15, 2017.
12. ↑ Details and images of Venus and Apollo , accessed January 15, 2017.
13. ↑ Erhart Hohenstein: Rebirth of Venus. Sculptor Rudolf Böhm copied Pigalle's masterpiece for the Great Fountain on pnp.de, September 12, 2008; accessed on January 15, 2017.
14. ↑ Sarah Kugler: Freshly cleaned. Art Nouveau house in the Nauener Vorstadt - today a medical center - was renovated. In: PNN, October 10, 2015, accessed January 15, 2017.
15. ↑ Reference list of the Gramann Schwieger restoration workshop , accessed on January 15, 2017.
16. ↑ Wolfgang Brönner and Jürgen Strauss: House with History on pnn.de, June 24, 2016.
17. ↑ https://www.pnn.de/potsdam/potsdamer-mitte-das-jesus-raetsel/23104110.html
18. ^ Böhm exhibition in Potsdam