Werner Schürmann

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Werner Schürmann (born November 17, 1929 in Dresden ; † April 24, 2012 in Osnabrück ) was a German sculptor , bronze caster and baritone .

Life

Werner Schürmann grew up in Dresden and Darmstadt . His older brother is the architect Joachim Schürmann . In 1947 he began studying sculpture at the Darmstadt art school with Fritz Schwarzkopf . Later he went to Munich as a master student of Toni Stadler .

After completing his studies, he went to the National College of Art and Design in Dublin , where he taught metalworking in art. He gave up teaching in 1959 and worked as a freelance metal artist for various architects in Germany and Ireland . In 1964, his brother, Joachim Schürmann , built him a house in Dublin, which is considered the most popular of the architect.

After returning to Germany in 1969, he began classical vocal training with Dietger Jacob in Hamburg . Initially Schürmann worked as a baritone at the theaters in Coburg and Detmold . From 1982 until his retirement in 1996 he was employed as a baritone at the Osnabrück Theater . Here he took on the great baritone roles, such as the Tewje in Anatevka , the Dutchman in the opera Der fiegen Holländer or Boris Godunov from the opera of the same name. Werner Schürmann continued to work as a singing teacher even after he left the ensemble. Under his guidance, u. a. the opera singer Maida Hundeling her career.

Works

Clemenskirche Cologne-Mülheim with the altar cross by Werner Schürmann

Werner Schürmann worked with numerous Irish artists during his time in Dublin in addition to his teaching activities. In the 1960s Schürmann was involved in several church building projects in Cologne , where his brother Joachim Schürmann worked as an architect. The bronze weathercock of the church of St. Josef Radevormwald-Vogelsmühle is an early work. His main artistic work is the emaciated image of Christ for the altar cross of the church of St. Stephan in Cologne-Lindenthal. The figure of Christ designed in Dublin was cast in Düsseldorf , the wooden cross was painted expressionistically by the American artist Morris Graves . For the same church he created four large altar candlesticks made of bronze , which embody the four parish patrons: St. Stephanus , St. Thomas More , St. Albertus Magnus and St. Lambertus .

A few years earlier Schürmann had made the bronze tympanum for the crypt of the St. Gereon Church in Cologne. Werner Schürmann designed the altar in 1960 for the St. Clemens church in Cologne's Mülheim district , which his brother also redesigned and created the bronze candlesticks, the west portal and two copper gargoyles . In addition, he designed numerous sculptures such as the bronze sculpture Sulky , which he created for a competition of the National Olympic Committee or the sculpture Archer ( Bonn - Limperich ) or Windbaum (1998).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ House Werner Schürmann in Dublin, architect Joachim Schürmann , accessed on January 27, 2014
  2. ^ Die Zeit, October 2, 1981: Insel am Rhein , accessed on January 27, 2014
  3. ^ Obituary notice for Werner Schürmann , accessed on January 27, 2014
  4. ↑ Volksoper Vienna: Vita Maida Hundeling ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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 January 28, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksoper.at
  5. ↑ The ecclesiastical furnishings of the St. Josef Vogelsmühle Church, text and picture book by Martina Junghans, text contribution to the weathercock by Clémentine Senicourt: cat. Hc 2 (book inventory: historical archive of the archdiocese, parish St. Marien Radevormwald)
  6. ↑ Hugo Poth: Ausgemergelt - Thoughts on the Cross of St. Stephan in Cologne , Church newspaper Cologne, Volume 10, Cologne March 1989, p. 11
  7. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau: Cross from Ireland above the altar in St. Stephan - Joint work by W. Schürmann and M. Graves, March 12, 1964
  8. ↑ Werner Schäfke: Cologne - Two Millennia of Art and Culture on the Rhine, DuMont Cologne 1998, ISBN 9783770143689
  9. ^ History of St. Clemens , accessed January 27, 2014
  10. ^ Zeit.de: Sport am Rand des Abstrakten, January 28, 1966 , accessed on January 28, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schürmann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2012
Place of death Osnabrück