Ulle Hees
Ulle Hees (born March 19, 1941 in Wuppertal ; † July 9, 2012 there ) was a German sculptor and visual artist .
Life
Hees grew up in Vohwinkel and studied sculpture at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal am Haspel with Kurt Schwippert . In 1958 she went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, among others with Josef Henselmann , and in 1961 she went to Rome for three years to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , where she also studied with Pericle Fazzini . In 1964 she returned to her hometown, where she has lived and worked ever since.
The artist made a name for herself in particular with an abundance of sculptures and sculptures in the largest city in the Bergisches Land and in the immediate vicinity. In the center of Elberfeld are her images of the local originals Zuckerfritz and Mina Knallenfalls . In the foyer of the regional church office of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and at the end of a line of sight to the Gemarker church on the lively shopping street Werth in the middle of Barmen is her interpretation of the times around the Barmer Confession , the bronze sculpture Yes-Sager and No-Sager . In Hemer the stele from the depths on the Neuer Markt comes from her , in Gevelsberg the memorial for the victims and persecuted of the national socialism on the town hall forecourt and in Remscheid-Lüttringhausen the bandweaver fountain . A Pina Bausch sculpture was in the works. A list of works was published in November 2011.
In addition to her sculptural work, Ulle Hees, who ran a studio on Friedrich-Engels-Allee , also worked, for example, as a photo artist, lithographer and art teacher .
In 2000, Ulle Hees was the winner of the Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation .
Zuckerfritz
Mina bang
Play fountain (Elberfeld)
Fountain at Langerfelder Markt
Ribbon knitting fountain in front of Lüttringhausen town hall
Memorial at the Wuppertal Regional Court
literature
- Rita Küster and Erik Schönenberg (eds.): Ulle Hees - Narrated story. Sculptures in public space. Edition Köndgen, Wuppertal 2011, ISBN 978-3-939843-18-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulle Hees in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sculpture for Else: exhibition of drawings - actions for an ELS theater ; Website of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft
- Cora Theobalt: Ulle Hees is looking forward to guests: the artist opens her studio ; Westdeutsche Zeitung of December 2, 2010; Retrieved July 12, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Görgens: Ulle Hees is dead: mourning the mother of Mina Knallenfalls ; Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) of July 10, 2012
- ^ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) ; Born, Wuppertal, 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6
- ↑ Eko Alberts: Meditation on the sculpture "Yes-Sager and No-Sager" ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; on the website of the Union of Evangelical Churches , 2009 (pdf; 542 kB)
- ^ Meike Nordmeyer: Ulle Hees: A sculpture for Pina Bausch is in the works ; Interview in the Westdeutsche Zeitung on April 8, 2011; Retrieved November 29, 2011
- ↑ Ulle Hees: Narrated story - sculptures in public space ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Book advertisement at Edition Köndgen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hees, Ulle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 2012 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |