Volker Beier

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Volker Beier in his studio

Volker Beier (born April 25, 1943 in Chemnitz ) is a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Volker Beier was born on April 25, 1943 as the youngest of three children of the architect and builder Walter Beier and their mother, who came from a craft business. From 1957 to 1960 he trained as a stonemason and sculptor in the Paul Münzner stonemason and stone carving guild in Chemnitz , in order to then study at the technical school for applied arts in Leipzig . His teachers were Hellmuth Chemnitz and Gerhard Eichhorn . He finished his studies in 1963 with a degree in sculptor from a technical college. From 1963 to 1966 he worked as a sculptor and was a department head at the PGH Bauhütte Chemnitz. In 1965 and 1966 Beier did his basic military service in the NVA .

Beier has been working as a freelancer since 1967. In 1969 he was appointed to a master class at the Academy of Arts in Moscow with Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Tomski and from 1974 to 1976 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin with Gerhard Geyer . He finished both studies with a master's degree . Subsequently, he headed various circles of the special school for directors of the visual arts in Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Eisenach. He also had a work contract with the VEK engineering, civil engineering and transport construction combine Karl-Marx-Stadt to manage a drawing and modeling circle.

From 1990 to 1992 he started teaching at the 1st Free School in Chemnitz.

From 1991 to 1994 he also worked as a volunteer culture editor for the Sächsisches Tageblatt .

Beier has been a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR since 1966 and has been a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists since 1990 and a member of the European artist group 2001 since 1992 .

In the illustrated book Volker Beier - Plastic & Drawing , the art scholars Ulrike Meier, Walburg Törmer-Balogh and Werner Ballarin (founding director of the Neue Sächsische Galerie) show that he is able to warm a wide variety of materials, such as bronze, iron, porphyry and mainly other hard stones and is able to give attractive shapes. His sculptures made of serpentinite should be emphasized .

Works (excerpt)

  • Grandfather with grandson in the rocking chair
  • Deportation memorial stone
  • Memorial column synagogue
  • Georgius Agricola honor
  • Love nest
  • Mirror behind the Karl Marx Monument in collaboration with Heinz Schumann
  • Portrait statuette Axel Wunsch as well as other portraits of personalities such as Stefan Heym , Helga Meyer and Gerd Bonk
  • bear
  • Gossipers
  • Design of graphic designs for special coins of the State Mint in Berlin together with the graphic artist Joachim Rieß
  • Geithainer market fountain and other fountains
  • Inscription in the granite base, which looks like sandstone, on Dresden's Altmarkt
  • Memorial stone for Maria Schmid-Billhardt, mother of Thomas Billhardt
  • Carlowitz stele at Rabenstein Castle
  • The Färberbrunnen (1984) on the grain market in Gera represents the craft of the dyers in Gera. It consists of eight sandstone elements and a central bronze figure.

  • Grandfather with grandson in the rocking chair

  • Hans Carl von Carlowitz stele at Rabenstein Castle

  • Memorial stele for the synagogue on Stephanplatz that was destroyed on November 10, 1938

  • The Marktweiberbrunnen from 1984 in the Zwickauer Katharinenstraße

  • Hans Beimler Memorial from 1979 at the Gablenz Center

Honors

Exhibitions

Own exhibitions

  • 1974 Freiberg
  • 1977 and 1988 Leipzig
  • 1979 and 1982 Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1980 Zwickau
  • 1984 and 1985 Rochsburg
  • 1984 Cottbus
  • 1988 Mayakowski Gallery, Berlin (West). An academician, here Gerhard Geyer, introduces one of his master students.
  • also Auerbach / V., Eisenach, Greifswald, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Mittweida, Porta Westfalica, Potsdam, Reichenbach / Vogtl., Rochlitz, Schönebeck and Solingen.

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1967, 1972, 1982 and 1987 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1969, 1974, 1979 and 1985 district art exhibition in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1984 district art exhibition Gera
  • 1974 and 1978 Young Artists of the GDR, Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 1968 winner of history, Halle (Saale)
  • 1970 In the spirit of Lenin, Berlin
  • 1973 Plastic and Flowers, Berlin
  • 1975 Small sculptures and graphics, traveling exhibition
  • 1975 bound in friendship, Berlin
  • 1976 Youth and Youth Objects, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1979 Youth in Art, Berlin
  • 1980 Art Prize Winner of the FDGB, Rostock
  • 1981 Art exhibition 25 years NVA, Dresden
  • 1984 Young sculptors from the GDR, Magdeburg
  • 1984 Art and Sport, Leipzig
  • 1984 retrospective 1945–1984, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1985 On common paths, Berlin
  • 1986 Border troop exhibition, Suhl
  • 1986 Soldiers of the People, Cottbus
  • 1987 GDR sculptural drawings, Dresden
  • 1989 builders, Berlin
  • also: Annaberg-Buchholz, Bad Elster, Budapest, Irkutsk, Lisbon, Madeira, Moscow, Oelsnitz / Erzgeb., Paris, Pistany, Rome, Vienna and Volgograd.

literature

  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 59 .
  • Günter Meißner (Ed.): General artist lexicon . tape 8 . Verlag Saur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , pp. 330 .
  • Ullrich Kuhirt (Hrsg.): Art of the GDR . tape 1960-1980 . Verlag Seemann, Leipzig 1983, DNB  840469845 .
  • Citizen portraits . Edition Chemnitz region. Lipsia-Presence-Verlag, Delitzsch 2007, ISBN 978-3-938128-39-8 .
  • Werner Ballarin, Ulrike Meier, Walburg Törmer-Balogh: Volker Beier - sculpture & drawing . Ed .: Dieter Füsslein. Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 2003, ISBN 3-910186-41-6 .
  • Rolf Magerkord (Ed.): Visual Arts Karl-Marx-Stadt: 1970–1976; Painting, graphics, plastic . 1st edition. District Art Center Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1978, DNB  800614984 .
  • Ulrich Hammerschmidt (Ed.): Art Paths: Paths to Art in Saxony . 1st - 4th Edition. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2001, DNB  96857288X .
  • Municipal museums Karl-Marx-Stadt (Hrsg.): Sculpture: Sculptor of the district Karl-Marx-Stadt . Druckhaus, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1989, OCLC 313512425 .
  • Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; Bezirkskunstzentrum (ed.): Retrospective 1945–1984: Fine arts in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, exhibition on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the GDR from September 28, 1984 to February 14, 1985 . Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984, DNB  20982235X .

Web links

Commons : Volker Beier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Weigelt, Sieglinde Weigelt, Gunter Weigelt: Medals made from Meissen porcelain . 1980-1983. VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1986, p. 470 f .
  2. ↑ Paul Münzner Steinmetz- und Steinbildhauerinnung zu Chemnitz ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steinmetzinnung-chemnitz.de
  3. ^ Illustrated book - sculpture and drawings
  4. ↑ Geithainer Marktbrunnen
  5. ↑ Lord Mayor Helma Orosz hands over new memorial place. State capital Dresden, February 10, 2009, accessed on December 25, 2016 (press release).
  6. ^ The Carlowitz bust , Carlowitz Society
personal data
SURNAME Beier, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz