Waldemar Otto

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Waldemar Otto (born March 30, 1929 in Petrikau , Poland ; † May 8, 2020 in Worpswede , Germany ) was a German sculptor and artist .

Life

Waldemar Otto began studying sculpture at the Berlin University of Fine Arts in 1948 . One of his first major successes was in 1957, at the age of 28, when he was awarded the prize at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1961 he created his first torsos , which have been characteristic of his work ever since. In 1973 he was offered a professorship at the Bremen University of the Arts . Waldemar Otto became known internationally through various awards, work stays and exhibitions - such as in Ireland, Chile and the St. Petersburg Hermitage . Otto lived until the end in the artist village of Worpswede near Bremen. He died there at the age of 91 after a long illness.

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Otto is one of the greatest protagonists of figurative sculpture - not chiseled, but shaped sculptures. He designed the sculptures three-dimensionally in the classic manner, but portrayed the human body with a combative and passionate spirituality. Details, volumes and proportions are always clearly arranged. With him there is no irreconcilable contradiction between abstract form construction and nature model. The materials he used include mainly wood and granite; for the Great Art Show in Worpswede he designed a fountain with two bronze figures depicting Bacchus and a Bacchante. The fountain is surrounded by a slope made of bricks that were burned as part of a fundraising project.

Works (selection)

In Bietigheim-Bissingen

  • Portrait of Katharina E (1976) in the Metteranlagen

In Bremen

In Bremerhaven

  • Mayor-Smidt-Strasse
    • Memorial to the memory of all victims of National Socialism (anti-war memorial) from 1986
    • Shipyard workers. Bronze ensemble (around 2000)

In Hamburg

In Hannover

  • 1985: The encounter. Two bronze figures in front of the Hanover Region House at Hildesheimer Strasse 18
  • 1986/1987: Large base torso XX. Bronze figure on the Groß-Buchholzer Kirchweg in Groß-Buchholz

In Rostock

  • Neptune Fountain on the Neuer Markt square

Picture gallery

Exhibition catalogs

  • Waldemar Otto: Sculpture and graphics from the years 61–68. Neue Münchner Galerie, April 2 to 27, 1968
  • Waldemar Otto: Sculptures. Kunstkreis Hameln, May 30 to July 5, 1981
  • Waldemar Otto: Sculptures. Oldenburg City Museum , June 13 to July 11, 1982
  • Waldemar Otto: Figure and Space, Sculptures 1969–1983. City Museums Heilbronn, May 11th to July 8th 1984
  • Waldemar Otto: female torsos. Galerie Cohrs-Zirus Worpswede, October 5 to November 10, 1996
  • Waldemar Otto: Hermitage. Exhibition at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, July 31 to August 14, 1997
  • Waldemar Otto: Man and measure. DASA-Galerie Dortmund, October 10th to December 12th, 2004
  • Waldemar Otto, No retrospective! Exhibition in the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus , Bremen, March 8th to May 10th, 2009 (Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, ISBN 3-92441266-9 )

literature

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Otto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sculptor Waldemar Otto died at the age of 91. buten un within, May 11, 2020, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
  2. ^ Matthias Claudius. Memories of the "Abendlied" author in Hamburg. Website of the city of Hamburg.
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrikau , Poland
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2020
Place of death Worpswede