Siegfried Krepp

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Siegfried Krepp in July 2010
The Meister Eckart portal at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt
Der Unfesselte (1989) on Anton-Saefkow-Platz in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl
“ Reading boy ”, Pistoriusstrasse 19, in Berlin-Weißensee
Gravestone in the Resurrection Cemetery in Berlin. With a sculpture by his wife Sonja Eschefeld

Siegfried Krepp (born July 3, 1930 in Lauchhammer ; † October 23, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and painter . His sculptural works in public space, which are often very significant in terms of urban history, can be found in numerous places in Berlin and other cities.

Life

After an apprenticeship as an administrative assistant from 1945 to 1948 and retraining as a machine fitter until 1950, Siegfried Krepp worked as a decorator at HO in Bad Liebenwerda in 1950/51 . His artistic training included a combined course of study at the ABF and the Berlin School of Fine and Applied Arts . 1951/52 and then until 1958 he studied sculpture there with Theo Balden , Heinz Worner , Heinrich Drake and Waldemar Grzimek . From 1958 to 1960 he was a master student of Fritz Cremer at the Academy of Arts . Then he worked freelance in Berlin. From 1978 to 1981 Siegfried Krepp was given a teaching position for relief design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. From 1958 to 1990 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Krepp's most important works include the relief stele on the memorial of German anti-fascist fighters in Spain in Volkspark Friedrichshain (1966–1969), the relief design on the south portal of the Berlin Cathedral (1978–1984, built in 1992) and the Meister Eckhart memorial at the Erfurt Predigerkirche (1991– 1998). Study trips took him to Bulgaria , Romania , Poland , the Soviet Union , Italy , Finland and France .

In the 1960s and after 1998 he turned to painting as well as sculpture. Siegfried Krepp lived and worked in Berlin-Weißensee. His grave is on the Resurrection Cemetery in the Indira Gandhi Road .

Works by him are owned by the Nationalgalerie Berlin , the Dresden Sculpture Collection , the Magdeburg Sculpture Collection and the State Museum Schwerin .

Works (selection)

  • 1959–1961 Gymnastics boys , bronze
  • 1962 Portrait of W. Fitzenreiter , bronze
  • 1963 Portrait of Bertolt Brecht , bronze
  • 1966–1967 portrait study Helene Weigel , bronze
  • 1966–1969 Relief to the memorial of German anti-fascist fighters in Spain
  • 1966–1971 Great reclining figure
  • 1975–1978 Reclining Nude Summer , bronze
  • 1978–1984 south portal of the Berlin Cathedral, door of reconciliation
  • 1987 Portrait of the actor Wolfgang Heinz
  • 1989: The Unleashed , also known as the Anton Saefkow Honor .
    A sandstone relief block honoring the three resistance fighters Anton Saefkow , Franz Jacob and Bernhard Bästlein .
  • 1991–1998 Meister-Eckart portal at the Erfurt Predigerkirche

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1961 Galerie Konkret, Berlin; German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1966 State Museums, Schwerin
  • 1975 Galerie am Prater , Berlin
  • 1977 Plastic Biennale, Middelheim
  • 1980 Angermuseum , Erfurt; Small sculpture biennial, Budapest
  • 1981 Anthropos, Vienna; Hilger Gallery, Salzburg
  • 1984 Gallery on the Havel, Brandenburg
  • 1987 Senftenberg Castle
  • 1987/88 sculpture from the GDR, Munich, Mannheim, Bonn
  • 1988 National Gallery, Berlin
  • 1989 National Collection, Magdeburg
  • 1990 Franciscan monastery church , Berlin
  • 2002 Zehdenick Monastery Gallery
  • 2003 Galerie Weißenseer Freitag, Berlin
  • 2004 Gallery at the Castle, Senftenberg
  • 2005 Marienkapelle / Marienkirche , Berlin
  • 2007 Heringsdorf Art Pavilion
  • 2010 Gallery 100, Berlin; for Krepp's 80th birthday

Art theft

Plastic in Senftenberg (stolen in 2017)

In August 2017, the sculpture "Sitting female nude" was stolen from the palace gardens in Senftenberg .

Quote

“It was always important to me to strive for personal integrity in the face of all-consuming conditions of past years. These two approaches were and probably are that allowed me to translate what I think and feel into sculpture. They practically forced me to worry about problems that had a major impact on my life and that of others. Making plastic out of this is difficult. But who doesn't have them when the challenges of the times are inevitable for them. Often times, to me, these problems have proven to be the same as they have existed for generations before us; a Sisyphean work and one that strangely enough nevertheless fulfills you. " (S. Krepp in October 1989)

Awards

literature

  • 2005 Heinz Hoffmann: The door of reconciliation by Siegfried Krepp on the south portal of the Berlin Cathedral , Hentrich and Hentrich publishing house, ISBN 3-938485-11-6
  • 1990 Dr. Fritz Jacobi et al. a .: Siegfried Krepp - Sculpture work 1960–1990 , Magistrate of Berlin, catalog for the exhibition in the Plastic Gallery Franziskanerkloster Berlin

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Krepp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the relief of Spain fighters in Volkspark Friedrichshain (PDF; 353 kB)
  2. ^ Sylva Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin. 1993 catalog , Lichtenberg district; Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 , page 15
  3. ^ Information from Galerie 100 on the occasion of the exhibition on the 80th birthday of Siegfried Krepp
  4. ↑ Kathleen Weser: Bronze nude taken from the pedestal in Lausitzer Rundschau , October 7, 2017
  5. ↑ Dr. Fritz Jacobi et al. a .: Siegfried Krepp - Sculpture work 1960-1990 , Magistrate of Berlin, catalog for the exhibition in the Plastikgalerie Franziskanerkloster Berlin, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Krepp, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauchhammer
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2013
Place of death Berlin