Ugge Bärtle

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Ugge (Eugen) Bärtle (born September 12, 1907 in Tübingen ; † August 28, 1990 there ) was a German sculptor , graphic artist and poet .

life and work

Ugge Bärtle left a wide range of works with lithographs , woodcuts , etchings , formica carvings , sculptures and sculptures . He is an advocate of the open form and always pleaded for the modern .

Bärtle completed an apprenticeship as a mason with Karl Merz in Tübingen from 1925 to 1927 . From 1928 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, under Professor Joseph Wackerle with an interruption due to a trip to Italy. At the end of his studies, he received the City of Munich Prize in 1933 for the standing youth Georg made of bronze, who is now in the sculpture garden of the Ugge Bärtle House in Tübingen.

Bärtle lived and worked in his parents' house on Tübinger Herrenberger Strasse since 1949. There is a small museum building dedicated to him. The sculpture garden can also be viewed from Föhrberg.

So-called Gôgendkmal by Ugge Bärtle in the Tübingen Salzstadelgasse. Depicted is a wine grower with the typical willow back carrier.

In Tübingen in Salzstadelgasse you can see the sculpture made of shell limestone, Der Wengerter, from 1961, known as the “ Gôgen Monument” . Other plants in Tübingen are:

Bärtle is best known for his equestrian figures and their abstract play of movement. His idol-like stone figures are reminiscent of mythology from ancient times in their clear body language.

Particularly impressive in his sculptural work is the monument to the concentration camp victims in the concentration camps Schomberg and honor and pleasure monuments in Wannweil (s u..) Ammerbuch - Entringen (1952), KZ Bisingen (Zollernalbkreis) Gräfenhausen (Calw), Mahlstetten (Kreis Tuttlingen), Talheim (Tuttlingen district) and those already mentioned in Tübingen-Hagelloch and -Lustnau.

In the Schönbuch nature park near Ammerbuch - Entringen there is a Hermann Löns fountain in Gewann Steingart , which was built by a group of friends around the artist Ugge Bärtle.

Bärtle was buried in the Tübingen mountain cemetery.

Documentaries

  • Jan Schütte : Ugge Bärtle - Sculptor (1982) 20 min, black and white.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure and Form - For the 100th birthday of the Tübingen sculptor , Municipal Gallery in the Badstube, Wangen im Allgäu.
  2. ^ Hermann-Löns-Brunnen , memorial stones in the nature park Schönbuch.

literature

  • Katharina Scharlowski: I'm going to work now: memories of the sculptor Ugge Bärtle , Attempto, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3893084104
  • Christian Schneegass: The sculptor's late drawing work (1965–1984) , Wasmuth, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3803018048
  • Barbara Lipps-Kant: Ugge Bärtle - The graphic work 1946–1985 . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-910090-17-6
  • Barbara Lipps-Kant: Ugge Bärtle - The sculptural work , Wasmuth, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 380301803X

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personal data
SURNAME Bärtle, Ugge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bärtle, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, graphic artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1990
Place of death Tübingen