Walter Wadephul

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The flute player , Wiesbaden

Walter Wadephul , complete: Willy Walter Johannes Wadephul (born May 11, 1901 in Putzar , district of Anklam ; † June 10, 1968 in Bremen ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Wadephul was born as the son of Karl Wadephul and Luise. Kuhnke was born and studied sculpture in Munich , Berlin and Breslau with teachers Bernhard Bleeker and Fritz Klimsch . He spent most of his life in Bremen, where he had moved in 1951. A large part of the works he created can also be found there. In the last years of his life, Wadephul lived in the Evangelical Deaconess House in Bremen and found his final resting place in the forest cemetery in Bremen-Blumenthal .

Personal

Wadephul was of Protestant denomination and married to Margarete Sophie Olga Auguste Voss (1913–1999), with whom he had three children.

plant

His work consists largely of sculptures made of cast bronze and concrete that are in public space or as contributions to art in public buildings, especially in playgrounds and playgrounds of schools and day-care centers.

Evaluation of the work

A reduced formal language that tends towards minimalism prevails in his works of art . All the details presented are reduced to the fundamentals.

Art in public space

Bremen

“The Flute Player”, Bremen
“Children on stilts”, Bremen
  • 1958: Fountain sculpture
  • 1958: The striding one
  • 1961: Henne and Hahn
  • 1962: moose
  • 1963: The flute player
  • 1965: Children on stilts
  • 1968: Children with a bird
  • 1969: Two boys with a dragon n

Wiesbaden

  • 1965: The flute player

other places

lost works of art

  • Pillar in the entrance area of ​​the now demolished Bremer Zentralbad
  • Patschkau / Silesia - war memorial 1914–18

Individual works

Web links

Commons : Walter Wadephul  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, December 27, 2017
  2. ↑ Website of the state capital Wiesbaden
  3. ↑ Tanja Fröb in the calendar of the SPD local association Wiesbaden-Nord, 2015
  4. ↑ website findagrave.com
  5. ^ Art in public space Bremen
  6. ↑ Tanja Fröb in the calendar of the SPD local association Wiesbaden-Nord, 2015
  7. ^ Art in public space Bremen
  8. ↑ Website of the state capital Wiesbaden
  9. ↑ Weser-Kurier No. 137 of June 12, 1968
  10. ^ Website of the ev. Thomas parish, Bremen
  11. ↑ a b c Bremer Bürgerzeitung No. 24 from June 15, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Wadephul, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Putzar
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1968
Place of death Bremen