Manfred Raumberger

Wilhelm Manfred Raumberger (born August 26, 1931 in Fürth ; † May 27, 2003 in Amberg ) was a German sculptor , sculptor, bronze caster and painter.

Life

Manfred Raumberger completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Philipp Siebenkäs in Fürth. Later he was a student of Lois Rauschhuber in Nuremberg. From 1950 to 1954 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in the class of Professor Hermann Schorer. 1955 was a student of the metal sculptor and draftsman Karl Dörrfuß (1906–1984) in Fürth. Manfred Raumberger has been working as a freelancer since 1956. From 1965 he lived in Amberg and worked as a freelance painter and sculptor.

Manfred Raumberger described the integration of people and the landscape in a modern, representational form as the aim of his work.

Manfred Raumberger was a member of the Amberger Künstler group until his death in 2003.

Working in public places

In Amberg:

Schweindl-Brunnen (cattle market)
Vogelbrunnen (Grammer Passage)
Four elements (public utilities)
Bürgerbrunnen (oak forest area)
Bergmann / Steiger (Erzberg Bridge)
"Four Seasons" enamel wall, ceramic wall (St. Marien Clinic, therapy bath)
Copper enamel relief "The Church Year" (Andreas Hill House)
Doors at the Andreas Hill House
Door at the Eh'häusl
Sower at the agricultural school
Email wall for the housing company
Various reliefs and plaster inlays on private and public buildings

In other places:

Hans in luck in Hirschau
Potato monument in Pilgramsreuth
Bridge sculpture in Rehau
Harlequin and Pulcinella in Rehau
Pig well in Günzburg
Portrait relief for Fritz Erler (1899–1992) in the Erler Clinic in Nuremberg
St. Vitus and Hildegard in Schnaittenbach
St. Nepomuk in Theuern and Wolfsbach

Exhibitions

Numerous group exhibitions in Amberg, Ansbach, Düsseldorf, Erlangen, Fürth, Kötzting, Neumarkt, Nuremberg, Perigueux, Regensburg, Stuttgart, Weiden.

Solo exhibitions in Leipzig (1956), Fürth (1964) and Amberg (1998).

Award

In 2001 Wilhelm Manfred Raumberger was awarded the City of Amberg's Culture Prize as an honor for his work.

Afterlife

In 2012 the city of Amberg in the Sebastianviertel named the new Manfred-Raumberger-Straße after him.

literature

Stadtgalerie Alte Feuerwache in the Amberg City Museum. Exhibitions 2011. Published by the Amberg Cultural Office. Amberg 2011, p. 14.

Web links

Retrospective for the 80th birthday of Wilhelm Manfred Raumberger - exhibition in the Stadtgalerie Alte Feuerwache opens in the evening - vernissage at 7.30 p.m. Press release No. 140/2011. (No longer available online.) In: amberg.de. July 20, 2011, archived from the original on December 27, 2016 .; accessed on January 24, 2020

Individual evidence

^ Gernot Schmidt: Local history excursion in and around Neustadt / Aisch. Neustadt an der Aisch with all sights, gates, towers and walls. Neustadt an der Aisch, p. 148 ( online version ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c WILHELM MANFRED RAUMBERGER. Stadtgalerie Alte Feuerwache in the Amberg City Museum, exhibitions 2011. Published by the Amberg Cultural Office. Amberg 2011, p. 14.

personal data
SURNAME	Raumberger, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Raumberger, Wilhelm Manfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor, sculptor, bronze caster and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 2003
Place of death	On the mountain

[1] Gernot Schmidt: Local history excursion in and around Neustadt / Aisch. Neustadt an der Aisch with all sights, gates, towers and walls. Neustadt an der Aisch, p. 148 ( online version ).

[Ausstellungen_2011-2] WILHELM MANFRED RAUMBERGER. Stadtgalerie Alte Feuerwache in the Amberg City Museum, exhibitions 2011. Published by the Amberg Cultural Office. Amberg 2011, p. 14.