Symposium of European Sculptors 1961–1963

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The symposium European sculptors 1961-1963 in Berlin was an event of European sculptors, as a sign of protest against the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. It is also called wall symposium called. At the exhibition site there is an information board with the inscription Sculptures against War and Violence .

Emergence

A first sculpture symposium in Germany took place in the summer of 1961 as the sculpture symposium Kaisersteinbruch in the quarry of Kirchheim-Graubüttelbrunn near Würzburg. There the artists found out about the construction of the Berlin Wall and some of them spontaneously decided to go to Berlin. From October 1961 to summer 1962 they worked on the Reichstag grounds that had been made available to them by the city of Berlin. A second symposium took place in 1963. The Berliner Tagesspiegel , public authorities and private sponsors supported the project.

Attendees

Symposium participants

18 sculptors are named on a memorial stone in the symposium area. They came from 7 European countries, from Japan and Israel.

  • Yoshikuni Iida
  • Kosso Eloul
  • Rüdiger-Utz Kampmann
  • Werner Mach

The following names can also be found in the literature:

The Symposium of European Sculptors was awarded the Prize for Fine Arts 1961/62 by the Association of German Critics.

Photos (selection)

  • Memorial plaque

  • Karl Prantl - untitled

  • Yasuo Mizui 1962 - seeds

  • Walter Steiner - untitled

  • Pierre Szekely - untitled

  • Rüdiger-Utz Kampmann - untitled

  • Yasou Mizui - untitled

  • Yasuo Mizui 1962-05 -key of love

  • Yasuo Mizui 1963 - key

literature

  • Jutta Birgit Wortmann: Sculpture Symposia: Origin - Development - Change . Frankfurt, 2006, ISBN 3-631-55273-4 , pp. 136-140.
  • Wolfgang Hartmann (Ed.), Werner Pokorny: The Sculpture Symposium: Origin and Development of a New Form of Collective and Artistic Work. Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7757-0263-6
  • Oliver Pretzel, Barbara Dyens: Symposium of European Sculptors , Berlin 1961–1962, Bertelsmann (1963)

Web links

Commons : Berlin Wall Symposium 1961/1963  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files