Utz Brocksieper

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Utz Brocksieper (born January 16, 1939 in Hagen ) is a German sculptor .

Utz Brocksieper was born in Hagen / Westphalia in 1939 as the son of the Bauhaus artist Heinrich Brocksieper (1898–1968). After an apprenticeship as a tool fitter and training and activity as a mechanical engineer, he studied sculpture from 1972 to 1977 at the Folkwang School in Essen with Max Kratz and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Rudolf Hoflehner . From the 1970s onwards he dealt with the subject of the wedge as a symbol for triggering forces . His preferred material for the realization of the sculptures is steel, also in connection with stone and wood. Numerous exhibition participations and solo exhibitions at home and abroad. Works can be found in museums, private collections and in public spaces. Utz Brocksieper is a member of the German Association of Artists and an honorary member of the West German Association of Artists .

He lives and works as a freelance sculptor in Hagen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "B" / Utz Brocksieper (accessed on September 23, 2015)

literature

  • Wolfgang Wangler (ed.): Utz brocksieper - interventions. Symbol, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-9800350-3-4 .
  • Uwe Rüth, Bernhard Korzus (Ed.): Only ROST ...? Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe 1986, ISBN 3-924790-14-0 , pp. 44–47.
  • Hans-Joachim Manske u. a. (Ed.): Art in public space in Bremen. Worpswede, 1993, ISBN 3-89299-169-3 , pp. 251, 359, 380, 398, 406.
  • Burgenland State Exhibition (Ed.): War or Peace - from the cult of violence to the culture of peace. Rötzer, Eisenstadt 2000, ISBN 3-901517-20-0 , pp. 20, 210, 251, 254.
  • Horst Kniese: Heimatbuch Hagen + Mark 2001. "The sculptor of the wedges". ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2000, ISBN 3-932070-23-2 , p. 179.
  • Barbara Happe, Martin S. Fischer: House Auerbach. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 380300635X , pp. 119, 120, 171.
  • Horst Kniese: Heimatbuch Hagen + Mark 2004. "Art triangle Hagen-Weimar-Jena". ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2003, ISBN 3-932070-49-6 , pp. 105f.
  • Petra Holtmann, Hans Friesen: Hagenkunst. ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2006, ISBN 3-932070-08-9 , pp. 66-68.
  • Jörg Tuschhoff: Hagenbuch 2008. "Hagen sculptor Utz Brocksieper is involved in Pampin". ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2007, ISBN 3-932070-79-8 , pp. 205-208.
  • Land of Ideas (Hrsg.): 365 ideas from Germany that carry into the future. DuMont, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7701-8212-1 , p. 211.
  • Barbara Happe, Martin S. Fischer: House Auerbach by Walter Gropius with Adolf Meyer. , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86859-564-2 , pp. 116, 117, 135.
  • Claus-Uwe Derichs, Hagenbuch 2020. "Intervention, penetration, change - the wedge as the triggering force". , ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-942184-55-7 , pp. 211–222.
  • Halina Israel, Hagenbuch 2020. “Hagen's visual artists make jewelry”. , ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-942184-55-7 , pp. 234-236.

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personal data
SURNAME Brocksieper, Utz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen