Stephan Horota

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Stephan Horota (born September 4, 1932 in Futok / Serbia ) is a German sculptor . His numerous sculptural works in public spaces can be found in Berlin , Frankfurt (Oder) , Rostock and Schwerin . He mostly depicts people and animals and uses copper and stone as materials.

Life

Stephan Horota attended primary school in Novi Sad from 1938 to 1944 . After the end of the Second World War his family was interned in Kladno (Central Bohemia) and in 1947 they were forcibly relocated to Germany with the rest of the family. From 1947 to 1951 he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Wismar . He then studied sculpture - first in Wismar, later at the College of Applied Arts in Heiligendamm and from 1954 to 1956 at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee with Theo Balden and Heinrich Drake . After graduating, he worked for a few years in a wood carving workshop in Berlin and from 1963 onwards as a freelancer. He lives in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and is married to the artist Birgit Horota . His brother Josef lives with his family in Saxony to this day.

Works (selection)

  • Umbrella children
    Schwerin (1973)

  • Two goats on a bridge
    Berlin (1977)

  • "Mr. Pastorn sin Kauh"
    Schwerin (1977)

  • Couple in the Bathtub
    Berlin (1982)

  • Polar bear mother
    Berlin (1988/90)

  • 1960s: Fuchs , in the Rosengasse in Frankfurt (Oder) and in the Tierpark Berlin
  • 1965: Fox and Raven (Gera, Tierpark )
  • 1967/68: Children under the umbrella (Berlin, corner of Prenzlauer Allee / Danziger Straße )
  • 1968: Wolf and Storch (Berlin, Treptower Park , not far from the rose garden)
  • 1970/71: Father and son in the Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg (stolen in 2012)
  • 1972: Fuchs (replica from 1960), Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin; Stolen in 2012
  • 1973: Umbrella children (Schwerin, south bank of the Pfaffenteich ) (replenishment from 1968)
  • 1973: Goat (Gera-Lusan, Kiefernstrasse)
  • 1975: Roller children (Schwerin, Weststadt, Johannes-Brahms-Strasse; Berlin, Pankow, Hamburger Platz; Suhl, city center, Platz der Deutschen Einheit)
  • 1976: Seven Swabians ( Berlin-Plänterwald , Galileistraße)
  • 1976: father with two daughters : two casts; one is in Berlin-Weißensee (corner of Else-Jahn and Gartenstrasse), the other is in Schwerin
  • 1977: Mr. Pastorn sin Kauh , fountain on the butcher's market in Schwerin ; after a song in the Low German language
  • 1977: Two goats on the bridge in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , (Einsteinstraße / corner of Kniprode-Straße), first casting in Berlin-Lichtenberg , (John-Sieg-Straße)
  • 1978: Two children with a cat in Berlin-Friedrichshain , (Palisadenstrasse)
  • 1982: Couple in the bathtub (Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Metzer Strasse)
  • 1986/87: Playing bears (Berlin, Helmholtzplatz )
  • 1987: Froschkönig (Berlin, Teutoburger Platz )
  • 1988/90: mother polar bear (Berlin, corner of Prenzlauer Allee / Grellstraße, in front of the polyclinic)
  • 1995: Giraffe group in Tierpark Berlin, bronze
  • 2005: Indian rhinoceros in Tierpark Berlin, bronze
  • 2007: Lion fountain in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, bronze

Exhibitions

literature

  • Figurative positions - sculpture in Prenzlauer Berg . Catalog for an exhibition in Berlin, 2000.

Web links

Commons : Stephan Horota  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on berlin.de
  2. ↑ The thieves of the animals. Two statues disappeared, now Eisenhüttenstadt is watching over the remaining 100. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 25, 2011; for the theft of two animal figures.
personal data
SURNAME Horota, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Futok