Stefan Schwerdtfeger

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"Nessi" in the Passerelle Hannover Hauptbahnhof (1977, together with Diether Heisig )
Cloud fountain in front of the main administration of the Osnabrück municipal utility (1978, together with Diether Heisig)
Woman's Body in the Wind, Hanover (1985, together with Diether Heisig)
Up an Away, metal sculpture at Hannover-Langenhagen Airport (1988)
Leipnizdenkmal in Georgstrasse Hanover (2008)

Stefan Schwerdtfeger (* 1928 in Stettin ; † November 19, 2018 ) was a German architect , sculptor , painter and university lecturer .

Life

He spent his school days in Stettin from 1934 to 1943. In 1944 he was conscripted as an anti-aircraft helper . After he was released from British captivity to the north ( East Friesland ) in 1945, he did an apprenticeship as a carpenter there before he made up his Abitur at the grammar school in Alfeld / Leine in 1948. He then studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover with a focus on painting and graphics with Kurt Sohns . After his diploma and a subsequent assistantship at the chair for spatial art at the TH Hannover, he took over the position of design architect at the building department of the city of Hannover in 1958. Since 1959 he also stayed regularly in Skagen (Denmark).

1963 switched to the Werkkunstschule Hannover as a lecturer for interior design and at the same time founded his own architectural office. In addition, he worked as a visual artist and continues to exhibit regularly at home and abroad. His works are in collections and museums. Commissioned work for art in public spaces complement the free artistic activity. In 1971 he was appointed full professor to the chair for modeling and experimental design at the Technical University of Hanover in the architecture department.

Work stays in Denmark, Holland, Yugoslavia and Venice served the artistic examination of the special peculiarities and characteristics of places. From 1981 to 2009 he had a permanent studio in Skagen. After his retirement in 1993 he devoted himself increasingly and exclusively to his work as a painter and sculptor and has since worked in his studio in Walshausen near Hildesheim.

In Hanover, he has, among other things, various underground stations in public space, the facade of the Kaufhof on Ernst-August-Platz , the memorial for the synagogue in the Rote Reihe, at the entrance to the airport the red steel spiral "up and away" and designed the Leibniz monument at the Operndreieck , Georgstrasse. His installation made of steel plates, “Book of lost letters” (In the beginning was the word), is located in the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt.

Stefan Schwerdtfeger's work was included in the " Lower Saxony artist database and estate archive ".

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1963: Studio A Otterndorf / Galerie Brusberg , Hanover
  • 1972: Galerie Die Insel, Hamburg
  • 1974: Galerie Brusberg, Hanover
  • 1981: Galerie Guld, Skagen
  • 1982: Galerie Eyendorf, Bremen / Galerie im Hofmeierhaus, Bremen
  • 1987: Artforum Gallery, Hanover
  • 1988: Frederikshavn Art Museum
  • 1989: Summer exhibition , Skagen Town Hall
  • 1991: Artforum Gallery, Hanover
  • 1995: Siemensforum, Hanover
  • 1996: Artforum Gallery, Hanover
  • 1997: Kunstverein Kunstkreis Hameln
  • 1998: Retrospective , Landestrost Castle , Neustadt / Rbg.
  • 1999: Weather reports , Das Glashaus, Derneburg
  • 2000: Galerie Gammel Posthus, Skagen / Galerie Borkowski, Hanover
  • 2001: In the beginning there was the word , Marktkirche Hannover / Bergkirche Bad Bergzabern
  • 2003: Horizonte , Galerie Borkowski, Hanover / Marienkirche Osnabrück, Performance Horizonte , Marktkirche Hanover
  • 2004: Horizonte , Gallery KWS-Saat AG, Einbeck
  • 2006: Interfaces , Galerie Borkowski, Hanover
  • 2007: Interfaces , artist house with gallery, Göttingen
  • 2008: cross-section since 80 , Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Leibniz University Hannover
  • 2012: Interfaces , gallery next door, Winsen / Aller
  • 2013: Retrospective , art building Schlosshof Bodenburg , Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1952: First participation in the autumn exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover
  • 1960: Art Prize of the Young , Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 1961: Youth Art Prize , City of Wolfsburg
  • 1964: German Association of Artists , Berlin
  • 1966: German Association of Artists, Essen
  • 1968: German Association of Artists, Hanover
  • 1969: Objects and reliefs , State Gallery Stuttgart
  • 1985: The village-yesterday-today-tomorrow (art award), Kunstverein Neustadt
  • 1986: Schwitters Memorial Exhibition , Municipal Gallery KUBUS , Hanover
  • 1989: Flag objects , Galerie Kö 24, Hanover
  • 1992: Bienall de Ibiza , Museum Ibiza
  • 2000: Writing and Image in Motion , Gasteig Munich
  • 2001: Like a fish in water , Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth
  • 2005: Wedemark well considered , Kunstverein Mellendorf
  • 2011: SMS, Schittek – Madlowski – Schwerdtfeger (Schittek for the 65th), Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Leibniz University Hannover
  • 2013: Dimensions of space , Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects

Executed projects for art in public space

  • 1974: Kröpcke-Center Hannover, wall designs in the area of ​​the 1st floor
Hanover Kröpcke underground station, wall design
Kaufhof Hannover, facade design

Fonts

  • Stefan Schwerdtfeger - painting. By Stefan Schwerdtfeger, with an introductory essay by Michael Stoeber. zu Klampen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86674-189-8 .
  • Stefan Schwerdtfeger - sculpture. By Stefan Schwerdtfeger, with an introduction by Michael Stoeber. to Klampen Verlag, 2014

Awards

literature

  • Daniel Alexander Schacht: Artist of Light / Stefan Schwerdtfeger has died - in the middle of a new creative phase , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 21, 2018, S: 23

See also

Web links

Commons : Stefan Schwerdtfeger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Alexander Schacht: The artist Stefan Schwerdtfeger died at the age of 90. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 20, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Obituary
  3. ↑ Stefan Schwerdtfeger on zuklampen.de
  4. ↑ Prof. Stefan Schwerdtfeger receives the Cross of Merit on ribbon . hannover.de, October 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schwerdtfeger, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2018