Wolf Spemann

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Hanns Wolf Spemann (* 1931 in Frankfurt / Main ) is a German university professor , draftsman , sculptor and object artist .

Sicilian market woman

Life

Spemann studied from 1951 to 1955 at the Wiesbaden Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden with Erich Kuhn and then moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied with Ewald Mataré until 1957 . Spemann has had a studio in Wiesbaden since 1957 and was a founding member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Wiesbaden eV in 1955

From 1963 Spemann started teaching at the Pedagogical Institute in Wiesbaden and received his doctorate on the subject of plastic design - anthropological aspects . From 1965 he was a board member of the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main ; he held this honorary position until 2012. Between 1975 and 1993 he held a professorship for art education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main.

From 1991 to 1995 he was chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal (AFD) and the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel . Together with Arnold Gorski and Johannes Ludwig, Spemann was one of the founders of Kunstarche Wiesbaden in 2012 , a registered association that u. a. archives and catalogs the legacies of Wiesbaden artists and organizes exhibitions.

Awards

plant

Hands and Cross , 1975, bronze, in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden

Subjects / subjects

Spemann's artistic work includes "sculptures made from various materials (...) since the 1970s, objects with a predominantly socio-critical and political background". These include, for example, the work Auf Messers Schneide , with which he took a position in 1988 against "the trivialization of nuclear power". Spemann often processes "surprising found objects and material combinations that make the work so fascinating or irritate one's own perception."

Shapes and materials

Most of Wolf Spemann's sculptural works deal with the human theme ; the basic forms of circle , wheel and sphere take up topics such as " couple relationships , movement and death ", whereby "the sensual , the haptic " always plays a central role. Spemann works with the materials stone, metal, wood, ceramic , natural material, plastic and bronze .

interpretation

Spemann's sculptures live from deduction , which is achieved through " stylizations " and through a " representation reduced to a symbol ", which already characterized the formal language of his teachers. In this way Spemann creates "timeless symbols of the complex interrelationships of being."

Artistic activity

Spemann's work has so far been recognized in around 54 solo exhibitions and numerous exhibition participations.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1968 Dieter Kliesch, watercolors; Hanns Wolf Spemann, sculptures , Behr & Trefz art gallery, Offenbach
  • 1972 German Cultural Institute, Ankara; German Cultural Center Istanbul
  • 1979 St. Egidien Church, Nuremberg
  • 1987 Direct Art - Sculptures and Objects , Oberhessisches Museum , Giessen
  • 1998 Kugel, Rad Pendel , Museum am Lindenbühl, Mühlhausen / Thuringia; also: Museum for Sepulchral Culture , Kassel
  • 2007 sculptures and objects 2007 , retrospective 1957–2007, Galerie Winter, Bellevue Hall, foyer in the town hall, all Wiesbaden.

Art in public space

  • 1966 Primary Professions of Mankind , Geisenheim District Vocational School , bronze
  • 1975 Hands and Cross , memorial of the Diakoniegemeinschaft Paulinenstift in the north cemetery
  • 1984 Sicilian market woman , bronze, installed in 2010 on Karl-Glässing-Straße in Wiesbaden
  • 1982 Christmas crib in the Protestant market church , Wiesbaden, linden wood

Publications (selection)

  • Plastic design - anthropological aspects , Olms, Hildesheim 1984, 1990, ISBN 3-487-07571-7 (dissertation)
  • Direct Art - Sculptures - Objects , Wiesbaden 1987 (exhibition catalog)
  • Ball, wheel and pendulum , Mühlhausen and Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-924-44715-2 (exhibition catalog)
  • Vignettes by Wolf Spemann , bibliophile postcard book, Reiss, Wiesbaden, 2006, ISBN 3928085417

literature

  • Felicitas Reusch: Wolf Spemann Sculpture Garden , 2013, ISBN 3895009466
  • Björn Lewalter and Axel Unbehend: Space.Art - Sculpture in Wiesbaden since 1955 , Edition 6065, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-980-86390-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thorsten-Reiss-Verlag
  2. ↑ a b c d Initiative for art education
  3. ↑ Björn Lewalter and Axel Unbehend: Space.Art - Sculpture in Wiesbaden since 1955 , 2002
personal data
SURNAME Spemann, Wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spemann, Hanns Wolf; Spemann, Hans Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, sculptor and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt / Main