Wilhelm Hausmann (sculptor)
Wilhelm Hausmann (born July 14, 1906 in Menden , Sauerland ; † October 20, 1980 there) was a German painter , sculptor and mosaist .
life and work
After an apprenticeship as a modeller and silversmith , Hausmann attended the state technical college for metal industry in Iserlohn and worked as a draftsman and modeller for gold and silver workshops.
In 1928 he went to Berlin , where he studied until 1932 at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art in Charlottenburg, among others with Waldemar Raemisch . He then worked as a freelance artist. In addition, he continued his studies from 1935 to 1940 at the Academy, which was renamed the State University of Fine Arts in 1939 .
Hausmann has created an extensive work of profane and sacred art, including sculptures , liturgical devices , concrete-glass windows and mosaics. In his early years, his three-dimensional sculptures of human figures were mainly based on Ernst Barlach , during the National Socialist era more - as with his stone sculpture St. Hubertus (St. Hubertus Church, Müschede) - on Georg Kolbe . After the Second World War, its design language opened up. While he reduced human sculptures to abstraction in his free work, he enriched them with ornamental and floral motifs in his religious commissioned works .
A Hausmann's mosaic entitled “Don Quixote” on the outside wall of the old rainbow school in Menden was saved from destruction in 2012. Before the building was demolished, it was removed and stored.
Hausmann received the scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo for 1942/1943 and the Villa Romana scholarship in 1944 , which he could no longer take due to the events of the war. In 1961 he received the Villa Romana Prize again.
Works in public space
- Iserlohn
- Baptismal font, in the Holy Trinity Church
- Stained glass window, in the tower of the Maria Königin church
- Menden (Sauerland)
- Stone sculpture putti with fish , on the upper promenade
- Bronze sculpture Die Sinnende , on the square next to the old town hall
- Hausmannbrunnen , diagonally opposite the old town hall
- Hamm
- Bronze cladding of the main portals in the Franciscan monastery in Hamm
Works in public collections
- Kleine Sinnende , before 1947, bronze sculpture, height 19 cm, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum , Hagen
literature
- Alfons Hoffmann: sculptor and painter Wilhelm Hausmann. Dumont, Cologne 1961.
- Ingrid Jenderko-Sichelschmidt, Andreas Pfeiffer: For example Villa Romana, Florence. State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden 1977.
Individual evidence
- ↑ City stops demolition of the Hausmann mosaic . In: derwesten.de from June 19, 2012.
- ↑ We save the Don Quixote mosaic by Wilhelm Hausmann . Website of the Mosaic Rescue Association, as of September 18, 2012.
- ^ Die Sinnende adorns the old town hall square , lokalkompass.de, accessed on October 12, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hausmann, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hausmann, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, sculptor and mosaist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Menden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th October 1980 |
| Place of death | Menden (Sauerland) |