Wolf Bröll

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Wolf Bröll (born March 24, 1950 in Stuttgart ; † May 2, 2016 in Mandelbeck near Northeim ) was a German photographer , painter , sculptor and professor of art education .

Life

Wolf Bröll began an internship as a photographer in 1969 . After several years of temporary employment in the photo industry, he moved to Berlin in 1972 and worked experimentally as a photographer. In 1973 he passed the journeyman's examination at the Federal College for Photography Crafts in Hamburg . Until 1979 he worked as a photographer at the Institute for Visual Communication and Design in Berlin with Herbert W. Kapitzki .

He discovered his inclination for spatial portraits and began studying sculpture at the Berlin University of Fine Arts . He went on study trips to Italy and Greece . In 1979 and 1980 he worked as a sculptor on the Cycladic island of Naxos . In 1983 he completed his main studies with Professor Arnold at the Kunsthochschule Kassel with a diploma. He has been working as a freelancer since 1984. A successful period followed with numerous sculpture symposiums as well as annual group and individual exhibitions.

In 1997 Wolf Bröll was appointed professor for art education at the University of Vechta . His focus was on plastic and objects. In 2004 he started the project Ariadne on Naxos - Sculpture for the city of Naxos in Greece. In 2005 he received first prize at the international sculpture competition Peer Gynt . He created the granite sculpture Solveig at the hut for the city of Oslo , Norway .

The main works of his artistic activity are sculptures for public spaces. Over 60 of his works are in 30 locations. His guiding motto was the shaping of the rough stone as a challenge and source of the will to create into the seemingly unfinished.

Wolf Bröll was buried in the Northeim cemetery.

Works (selection

Harz hiker Wernigerode
Sculptures Rote Straße (Göttingen)
Stone-covered house, 1994, Am Gropenmarkt, in Duderstadt
  • Two stone-covered inscriptions, sculpture path Bad Gandersheim / Lamspringe
  • Magical water, Baunatal City Park, Baunatal
  • White Obelisk, Straßburger Strasse, Prenzlauer Berg , Berlin
  • Large head overgrown with stones, Paulikloster Brandenburg (Havel)
  • Female torso, Cuxhaven City Park
  • Obelisk with waves, Caspar-David-Friedrich-Str., Dresden
  • Three female figures, Dresden Clinic Garden, Clinic Dr. Hans
  • Stone-clad house, Duderstadt
  • Gropenmarkt (town hall), Duderstadt
  • Large stone opening, Bahnhofstrasse Duderstadt
  • Floating cloud, Staufenburg Clinic, Vollmersbachtal Durbach (Baden)
  • Obelisk, Reichsstraße (pedestrian zone) Freudenstadt
  • Stone-clad house, Upper Market Square, Freudenstadt
  • Wing overgrown with stones, spa promenade, Freudenstadt
  • Schwarzes Wasser, Reichsstrasse (pedestrian zone), Freudenstadt
  • Renaissance, seven obelisks, sculpture path on Kienberg, Freudenstadt
  • Seer from the stone, Kienberg Sculpture Park, Freudenstadt
  • Stone wave, Carl-Zeiss-Strasse, Göttingen
  • Female torso, Max Planck Gymnasium, Theaterplatz, Göttingen
  • Sculpture for international understanding, Kurz Geismarstrasse, Göttingen
  • Great stairway to heaven, Volksbank Göttingen, Kurz Geismarstrasse, Göttingen
  • Four black torsos, entrance to the Börnerviertel, Rote Straße, Barfüßer Straße, Göttingen
  • People and Science, Goethe-Allee, Göttingen
  • Young man's torso, Dresdner Bank AG, Jungfernstieg, Hamburg
  • Kinds of the block, Alter Teichweg, Dulsberg, Hamburg
  • Steinernes Wasser, Philipp Holzmann AG, Podbielskistraße, Hanover
  • Rhume Oder Katlenbach, main street Katlenburg-Lindau, Hanover
  • Fruits from the stone, MCI-Miritz-Ingredients, Zur Furtmühle, Kirchgandern
  • Wasserstein in Lohne City Park, Lohne (Oldenburg)
  • Blue water, upper floor town hall, Lohne (Oldenburg)
  • Open torso, Holy Spirit Hospital, Lübeck Bürgergarten
  • Two triangles overgrown with stone, at the district military replacement office in Lüneburg
  • Two granite steles, fountain for the Kreis-Sparkasse Nörten-Hardenberg
  • Three cypress trees, Northeim traffic island
  • Becoming and passing away, Breite Straße (Münsterplatz), Northeim
  • Open torso, bronze in the town hall, Northeim
  • Three pieces of furniture overgrown with stone, housing association on Nordring, Northeim
  • Seer overgrown with stones, Imbshausen Castle , Northeim
  • Coming and going, Eschenschlag, Northeim
  • Wing overgrown with stones, St. Sixti Church, Northeim
  • Three houses, Vechta
  • People and Science, Vechta University, Driverstraße, Vechta
  • Fragmentary Harz hiker at the western gate of Wernigerode
  • Female torso, Friedrichstrasse, Wernigerode
  • Open torso, Neuland Housing Association, Rathenaustraße Wolfsburg
  • Silbermond, Fichtelgebirgshalle, Wunsiedel
  • Babylon made of marble in Marienstadt, Kevelaer
  • Walk into the night, Northeim cemetery

Greece:

  • Ariadne on Naxos, Naxos, Cyclades

Norway:

  • Solveig at the newly built hut, Peer Gynt Sculpture Park, Oslo

France:

  • près de nous, jardin du musée des beaux artes, Angers

Web links

Commons : Wolf Bröll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Wolf Bröll: Sculpture - inside & outside , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89244-726-9
  • Hans-Joachim Drenk: Freudenstadt Art Guide 2015: Art on the way, ways to art - Freudenstadt , Freudenstadt Tourismus, p. 8 ff.
  • Kunstverein Salzgitter e. V .: Wolf Bröll: Torsi and Heads , Salzgitter 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography
  2. ↑ Kunstverein Salzgitter e. V .: Wolf Bröll: Torsi and Heads , Salzgitter 1995
  3. ↑ Obituary notice
personal data
SURNAME Bröll, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2016
Place of death Mandelbeck near Northeim