Ulrich Fox (sculptor)

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Bronze sculpture “Myth” on the east wall of the Damme primary school , part of the sculpture trail created in 1994

Ulrich Fox (* 1944 in Mehlsack , Warmia ) is a German sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

From 1966 to 1972 Ulrich Fox studied art / art education in Vechta , Göttingen and Freiburg . From 1981 to 1983 he studied at the University of Art and Music in Bremen .

Ulrich Fox lives in Lohne (Oldenburg) , where his studio is located in an abandoned former army barracks . He is a founding member of the "Kunstverein Wassermühle Lohne"

The artist is part-time lecturer in design education at the University of Vechta. In this capacity, he supports social projects together with students.

Works

Wooden steles "Together" in the inner courtyard of the Vechta District House

Ulrich Fox has been participating regularly in exhibitions and symposia since 1981 . The artist made a name for himself above all through his work at the symposium "Natura e Morte" in Imperia (1989, 1995 and 1996), the 1st sculptor symposium of the city of Northeim (1996), the "Skulptura 99" of the city of Freudenstadt (2000) and symposia in Pieniężno (2001 and 2002). In 2001 he was chairman of the jury for the Lovis Corinth Prize in Regensburg .

In 1997 Ulrich Fox won first prize in the "Public Art in Architecture Competition, District Council Building of the District of Vechta ". The award-winning work, ten wooden steles, is set up in the front courtyard of the district building.

In November 2006 the exhibition “Heine vis à vis” with book installations by the painter Gisela Fox-Düvell , Fox's wife, and graphics by Ulrich Fox was shown in the town hall of Vechta . The exhibition dealt with Heinrich Heine's book Germany. A winter fairy tale . The exhibition was then presented in the Haselünne monastery church .

In 2009 Ulrich Fox and his wife designed an exhibition with paintings and collages (Gisela Fox-Düvell) as well as woodcuts and sculptures (Ulrich Fox) entitled “Where to - Homage to Refugee Mothers” in the rooms of the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg and the District Savings Bank Northeim.

From July 6th to September 29th 2013 an exhibition with sculptures by Ulrich Fox and pictures by Gisela Fox Düvell took place under the title “ Novalis - in search of the blue flower ” on the grounds of the Count's country estate in Hardenberg .

The crucifix without hands in Rechterfeld / Vechta

Hands-free crucifix in front of the Marienhospital in Vechta

Stir one cared Bronze - crucifix that Ulrich Fox anfertigte privately commissioned and on the property of his client in February 1988 Rechterfeld set up. The special feature of this crucifix is ​​the absence of the hands on the stumps of the arms that are stretched towards the sky. The artist was inspired for this depiction by a triumphal cross in the church of St. Ludgeri in Münster , which had lost both hands after a bombing in World War II and remained unrestored as a war memorial in the church. Furthermore, according to his own admission, Fox has implemented the saying, which was already known in the Middle Ages: "I have no other hands than yours." In the sense of the Matthew saying: "What you did for one of my smallest brothers, you did it to me." . The project was actively supported by Reinhard Puche, building director at the Vechta district.

Resistance to the cross system soon arose. The majority of the members of the parish of Rechterfeld called for a “real cross” to replace Fox's work of art. At the instigation of the St. Georg parish in Vechta, the location of the crucifix was moved to the children's hospital of the Marienhospital in Vechta. The discussions about the crucifix did not end. The body was stolen at the end of September 2006. On the night of October 9th to 10th, 2006, it was deposited in the bushes in front of the hospital. Since then it has stood in the designated place in front of the clinic.

The incident sparked a flood of letters to the editor in the local press. Karl Josef Lesch , theology professor at the University of Vechta, pleaded for a positive reception of the crucifix:

“Yes, the artist wants to provoke, in the true sense of the word: call out, shake you awake from the sleepy routine of everyday life. […] Art not only wants to stimulate thought, but also calls for action: The missing hands of the Christ corpus are such a call, an appeal to love one's neighbor, to care for the sick, to comfort the sad. We encounter Christ himself in the sick, starving, prisoners, homeless and strangers. "

literature

  • Wilfried Körtzinger: The sculptor Ulrich Fox from Lohne - With the chainsaw between art and nature . In: Heimatbund for the Oldenburger Münsterland (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland. Vol. 51, 2002, ISBN 3-88441-182-9 , pp. 360-372.
  • Ulrich Fox, Karl Josef Lesch: My God, my God, why? Images and texts about a controversial crucifix . Dialog-Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-937961-82-8 .
  • Karl Josef Lesch: The cross does not find rest - dispute over a crucifix by the sculptor Ulrich Fox . In: Heimatbund for the Oldenburger Münsterland (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland. Vol. 60, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941073-07-4 , pp. 41-64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Damme art and culture group: Damme sculpture trail (PDF; 461 kB)
  2. ^ Art Association Die Wassermühle Lohne eV: The association
  3. ↑ Art strengthens endurance. Caritas welfare organization supports young people - Fox praises project work . In: Nordwestzeitung . September 30, 2009.
  4. ↑ University of Vechta: Black steles and the sea: Heine exhibition in Vechta town hall to be seen until November 24th. Press release 185/2006. (PDF; 108 kB)
  5. ↑ Jürgen Weichardt : Exhibition project: Heinrich Heine vis-à-vis the book installation “Deutschland ein Wintermärchen” by Gisela Fox-Düvell . Speech at the opening of the exhibition, November 5, 2006.
  6. ↑ Haselünne meets Heine . In: Meppener Tagespost . November 13, 2008.
  7. ↑ Catalog of the exhibition “Where to”  ( 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. (PDF; 13.8 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ulrichfox.de  
  8. ↑ Burghotel Hardenberg: July 6th - September 29th 2013 - "Novalis - in search of the blue flower" ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burghotel-hardenberg.de
  9. ↑ Andreas Lesch: 25 years of the cross without arms . In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung . March 28, 2013.
  10. ↑ Bodo Meier: A crucifix without arms provides explosive material. Karl Josef Lesch explains the relationship between art and belief in the Stapelfeld Academy . In: Nordwestzeitung. March 10, 2009.
  11. ^ Thilo C. Agthe: Online project fallen memorials: Munster (St. Ludgeri Church), North Rhine-Westphalia
  12. ↑ Matthew 25:40
  13. ↑ Karl Josef Lesch: “The cross does not find rest”. Controversy about a crucifix by the sculptor Ulrich Fox . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2011 . Vechta 2010, p. 59.
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sack of flour , Warmia