Theo Heiermann

Theo Heiermann , actually Theodor Antonius Heiermann , (born October 26, 1925 in Bottrop , † March 18, 1996 in Cologne ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Life

Theodor Heiermann was drafted into military service as a high school student in 1944 and was a British and American prisoner of war from 1944 to 1945 . In 1946 he made up his Abitur and moved to Cologne, where he studied sculpture and painting at the Cologne factory schools with Wolfgang Wallner , Joseph Jaekel and Wilhelm Teuwen . Since 1952 he has been taking regular study trips to Italy, France and the Netherlands. In 1955 he worked at the Cologne cathedral construction works.

Heiermann was a representative of the so-called Cologne School , which "consciously wanted to combine the best traditions that can be carried over into our times with ideas and forms of the present". A special collegial friendship and cooperation connected him with the sculptor Elmar Hillebrand , with whom he planned and carried out numerous joint projects.

He was married to the artist Barbara Heiermann (* 1935) and the father of the artist and professor of visual design Matthias Maria Heiermann (1960–2019).

Theo Heiermann died in 1996 at the age of 70. His grave is in the new cemetery in Cologne- Rodenkirchen .

honors and awards

• 1957 sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists .

Working in public space (selection)

DuMont fountain in Cologne

Statues on the walls of the west portal of the Church of Our Lady Trier: in the middle Petrus by Theo Heiermann

• Cologne Cathedral : gargoyles
• Crown of thorns on the Katholikentag Cologne 1956 (with architect Rudolf Schwarz )
• Figure group Annunciation in the Church of St. Hedwig in Bonn-Mehlem (with Arch. Emil Steffann)
• Window eye, dove, portals in the church Heilig Geist in Bottrop (with Maria and Rudolf Schwarz)
• two sculptures in the church of St. Bonifatius in Waldweiler (with Arch. Heinz Bienefeld )
• Figures in three niches on the south wall of the St. Andreas Church in Wesseling-Keldenich (with Arch. Heinz Bienefeld)
• Interior decoration of the Trier Cathedral (with the sculptors Jochem Pechau and Elmar Hillebrand and the architects Gottfried Böhm and Nikolaus Rosiny ; organ with Elmar Hillebrand)
• Veil boards of the Sandtner organ in Eichstätt Cathedral (with Elmar Hillebrand)
• Interior of the Sacrament Chapel with Stations of the Cross in Osnabrück Cathedral (with Elmar Hillebrand)
• Furnishing of the sacrament chapel of the Grüssau Abbey in Bad Wimpfen (with Elmar Hillebrand)
• High altar made of Savonnières limestone in the Church of Our Lady in Koblenz (with Elmar Hillebrand; fasting image with the Arma Christi on the back of the reredos by Clemens Hillebrand )
• Portal of the St. Pantaleon Church in Cologne
• Portal of the Church of St. Ursula in Cologne
• four figures on the council tower in Cologne
• Altar (1971), tabernacle (1972), ambo (1980) and baptismal font (1980) of the St. Remigius Church in Cologne- Sürth
• Bronze portal of the Church of St. Michael in Ibbenbüren (1982–1985)
• DuMont Fountain in Cologne, Breite Straße / Hanns-Hartmann-Platz (1984–1986; designed for the neighboring parent company of the Cologne publishing house DuMont Schauberg )
• Nativity scene in Cologne Cathedral (with Barbara Heiermann)
• Marienbrunnen in front of the double church Schwarzrheindorf in Bonn-Beuel (together with Jochem Pechau )
• Altar retable in the pilgrimage church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen
• Fountain monument for the former synagogue on Lappenberg in Hildesheim
  Elmar Hillebrand designed the overall concept and executed one side of the cube-shaped fountain, the other sides come from the three sculptor colleagues and participants in the previous competition, Jochem Pechau , Karl Matthäus Winter and Theo Heiermann.
• Altar block in the Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Werdohl
• Zwentibold fountain on the market square in Bad Münstereifel
• Petrus statue on the west portal of the Church of Our Lady (Trier) (1991/92)
• Crucifixion group in the crossing and two glass windows in the left apse of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Ettlingen) (1990–1992)

literature

• Helmut Fußbroich (text): Theo Heiermann. (Catalog for an exhibition of the "Künstler-Union-Köln" in the Maternushaus) Cologne 1997.
• Ulla Heise: Heiermann, Theo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 136.
• Dorothee Haentjes-Holländer : The pilgrimage church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen. Discovery of an art space. (= Small contributions to memorials and history in Bonn on the right bank of the Rhine ; published by the Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e.V.) Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-9812164-4-8 .
• Messing-Müller, Cologne, (Ed.) Calendar in the series "Cologne Sculptors", Theo Heiermann, 1983
• Architecture Guide Cologne, Helmut Fußbroich, (Ed.), JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne, 2005.

Web links

Commons : Theo Heiermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Theo Heiermann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ quoted from: Das Münster , 23rd year 1970, issue 1 (January / February)
2. ↑ Obituaries of Matthias Maria Heiermann | We are sad. Retrieved on October 5, 2019 (German). 
3. ^ Rodenkirchen new stadt-koeln.de. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
4. ^ Dorothee Haentjes-Holländer: The pilgrimage church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen. Discovery of an art space . Ed .: Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e. V. and the Rhineland Regional Council. Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-9812164-4-8 .
5. ↑ Andreas Tacke: Daring Modernity. The walls of the west portal by Guy Charlier, Theo Heiermann and Elmar Hillebrand . Retrieved May 3, 2020.
6. ↑ Kath. Pfarramt Herz-Jesu, Ettlingen (Hrsg.): Ettlingen Herz-Jesu-Kirche . No. 021 . Art publishing house Harald Lipp, Horb aN, 1996.