Ursula Querner

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Ursula Querner works on the wax model, 1964

Ursula Querner -Wallner (born May 10, 1921 in Dresden , † June 23, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German sculptor , sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

Aurora, 1953, Planten un Blomen , Hamburg

Ursula Querner was the second eldest of Rudolf Querner's four daughters . Her father was an officer in the Saxon State Police, most recently HSSPF , her mother Annemarie a née Schorkopf. At the age of 13, she came into contact with plastic art in the Zwinger in Dresden, her hometown . During this time her first work was done in the Albertinum , a small copy of the statue Leda with the swan . In 1935 the family moved to Berlin and in 1936, when Ursula was 16 years old, to Hamburg.

From the schoolyard of the girls' high school at Lerchenfeld in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst , she often watched the students from the neighboring state art school, which later became the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK). She already made up her career wish to become a sculptor.

After passing the Abitur in 1939, Querner completed a three-year apprenticeship as a wood sculptor with a journeyman's examination in 1943 at the state carving school Empfertshausen in the Rhön . It was here that she also learned to fly . In 1943 the family moved to Vienna. There Ursula was hired as a news helper and worked as a telephone operator, so that she could only be artistically active at night. In 1945 the family moved to Malente and Ursula worked for a carpenter in Eutin as a wood carver and turner. In 1946 she set up a studio in Eutin and in the same year began her studies in Hamburg at the HFBK in the sculpture class of Edwin Scharff . She created her first works, crucifixes , for churches in the Hamburg area. Since Gerhard Marcks promised her an assistant position at the HFBK, she passed her master's examination as a wood sculptor in Lübeck in 1948 and finished her studies at the HFBK in autumn 1949. In 1950 she lived in Hamburg-Eppendorf and set up a studio there. In 1952 Ursula Querner received the scholarship for the Lichtwark Prize in Hamburg, took over the former roof studio from Fritz Fleer and in 1953 married the painter, graphic artist and sculptor Claus Wallner (1926–1979). In 1959, the Rome Prize enabled her to spend ten months at Villa Massimo . She was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Rock island Scoglio Ravia in front of Ponza

Querner was able to create bronze sculptures in public spaces very early on, alongside Barbara Haeger and Maria Pirwitz - they were considered the successful young women and were students of Professor Edwin Scharff - through art-in-building financing . On Scoglio Ravia, a small rock island - 100 meters wide, 20 meters long and 20 meters high - in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Italian island of Ponza , she and her husband set up a summer residence and studio in 1961. The artist family regularly spent four months a year there.

In 1964 Ursula Querner received the Edwin Scharff Prize . Works by her are in the art halls of Rostock and Hamburg. Sculptures of her are in public spaces , in schools, churches and other buildings.

Private life

Grave of Ursula Querner / Claus Wallner , Bernadottestrasse cemetery

Her preference for the maritime underwater world arose in the paradisiacal surroundings of the island of Scoglio Ravia. The snorkeling inspired Querner to various dive motifs, which was reflected in her work.

Ursula Querner lived and worked with her husband and their two children Florentine (* 1955) and Dorothee (* 1958), who later also became artists, most recently in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek . She died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 48. Her husband married her sister, the picture weaver Erika Querner, in 1970 and completed open work and designs, for example the swordfish carrier , a commissioned work for the main customs office in Hamburg.

The common grave of Ursula Querner and her husband Claus is in the Ottensener Stadtfriedhof, the Bernadottestrasse cemetery , their gravestone bears a bronze relief with a couple in love.

Works

Narcissus by Ursula Querner, 1964/1965, in the Gottorf Castle Sculpture Park in Schleswig
Hamburg, Finkenau, inner courtyard of the Mediencampus: bronze sculpture Ceres by Ursula Querner (1921–1962)

A small selection:

  • Sculptures by Ursula Querner in public space

  • Donkey rider, 1956, Grindelhochhäuser , Hamburg

  • Donkey rider, 2nd cast of the sculpture, after 1956, Volkspark in Hagen

  • Daphnis and Chloe, 1958, main entrance of the Holsten brewery in Hamburg Altona

  • Orpheus and Eurydike , 1958, location, Alstervorland on Harvestehuder Weg

  • Swordfish carrier, 1969, at the main customs office in Hamburg harbor

  • Pan flute player, 1961, Hamburg-Heimfeld

  • Delphine , 1969, Hamburg-Bergstedt

Trivia

  • Ursula Querner signed most of her works with a “Q”.
  • There has been an Ursula-Querner-Straße in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe since 1985 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Querner, Ursula ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed October 29, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Volker Plagemann: Art in public space. Gallery Schwerin ( online , accessed October 21, 2011)
  3. ↑ h24notizie.com Ponza in onda sabato 9 luglio su RAI Uno - Lineablu (accessed October 19, 2011)
  4. ^ Eberhard von Wiese: Artists on their own island. Hamburger Abendblatt from June 21, 1969, page 65 ( online , accessed November 8, 2011)
  5. ^ Dagmar Klein: The painter Claus Wallner and his glass windows for Gießen churches. Monument Preservation & Cultural History magazine . Online at Bibelwelt.de (accessed October 20, 2011)
  6. ↑ Helga Jörgens-Lendrum, Ursula Querner, Gottfried Sello: The sculptor Ursula Querner 1921-1969. Verlag Sautter & Lackmann (1991), 127 pages
  7. ↑ Figure tombstone at garten-der-frauen.de
  8. ↑ Apostle Church in Eimsbüttel: Who stole the Savior? Hamburger Morgenpost / mopo.de of December 24, 2010 (without naming the author, accessed on October 24, 2011)
  9. ↑ derwesten.de: Unknown people saw off the leg of a sculpture in Hagen (accessed on February 18, 2016)
  10. ↑ Denis Fengler: West Alster bank: bronze thieves steal Eurydice. Hamburger Abendblatt from October 17, 2011
  11. ↑ Statues are replaced, Orpheus and Eurydice on the Alster ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger Wochenblatt Eppendorf (accessed on July 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-wochenblatt.de
  12. ↑ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, p. 139
  13. ↑ History of the Nienstedten Church, kirche-nienstedten.de (accessed on October 24, 2011) ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-nienstedten.de
  14. ↑ Object No. 21.1 in the Langenhorn Archive
  15. ^ Website Senator-Neumann-Heim accessed in April 2016
  16. ↑ Biography and sculpture Delphine in Volksdorf at the Volksdorf meeting point

literature

  • Claus Wallner (Ed.): Ursula Querner. Sculptures and graphics 1946–1969. Excerpts from diaries and letters. Hans-Christians-Verlag Hamburg, 1971.
  • Ursula Querner, Gottfried Sello , Helga Jörgens-Lendrum: The sculptor Ursula Querner. 1921-1969. Sautter & Lackmann. Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-88920-019-2 .
  • Heinz Zabel: Plastic Art in Hamburg. Sculptures and sculptures in public space. (With a list of 23 Ursula Querner sculptures in Hamburg.) Dialog-Verlag Reinbek, 1986.
  • Christine Kracht: The image of man in the work of the sculptor Ursula Querner: A study of figural sculpture of the 50s and 60s in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dissertation. Roderer, 2000 (471 pages including a complete list of her sculptural works.)
  • Gora Jain: Between Reality and Imagination - Ursula Querners sculptures and sculptures . Article published in the exhibition catalog An artist couple between the Elbe and the Mediterranean: Ursula Querner and Claus Wallner , 2011, Hamburg-Blankenese by Thomas Sello and Dorothee Wallner

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personal data
SURNAME Querner, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1969
Place of death Hamburg