Will elfes
Will Elfes (born February 29, 1924 in Mönchengladbach ; † November 20, 1971 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and musician .
Life
His parents were Elisabeth and Wilhelm Elfes . After finishing high school, he was drafted into military service, took part in the Battle of Stalingrad and later became a prisoner of war .
For three years Elfes hitchhiked through post-war Germany with a friend. Then he began modeling homecoming figures; his father packed them in a suitcase and showed them at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , whereupon Will Elfes was able to start his studies there immediately. Later he went to Karlsruhe , where he hardly studied any more. He built a hut on the Rhine and moved to Hamburg three years later . In 1955 Elfes went to Munich and studied music there.
He set u. a. Texts by François Villon , Christian Morgenstern , Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Tucholsky , Erich Kästner , Joachim Ringelnatz , HC Artmann . He sang to the guitar himself , and some of his songs have been released on record.
The city of Munich gave him numerous sculpting commissions for schools, churches, kindergartens, hospitals and other public buildings.
Exhibitions of his works took place at home and abroad. There was an exchange exhibition in Rostock with artists from the GDR .
In 1964 Elfes created a memorial stone for the Dachau concentration camp memorial .
In 1965 Elfes received the Schwabing Art Prize in the sculpture / sculpture category .
In 1968 he appeared in the twelve-part television series Telekurs for Motorists, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk , alongside Friedrich von Thun as a morality singer .
Web links
- List of the winners of the Schwabing Art Prize on www.muenchen.de
- additional information on his work in the digital Christian Morgenstern archive
- Gallows songs, set to music and sung to the guitar by Will Elfes
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Antoni: The long way to the place of warning in Antifa edition 2014-07
- ↑ alpha-retro: 1968 - Telekurs for drivers. In: alpha-retro (series on ARD-alpha ). Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Elfes, Will |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 29, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th November 1971 |
| Place of death | Munich |