Wolfgang Bier (artist)

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Wolfgang Bier (born February 2, 1943 in Mährisch Trübau , Sudetenland , † April 22, 1998 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German sculptor , painter , graphic artist and ceramist .

life and work

Wolfgang Bier grew up in Waiblingen . His ancestors were cutlers for generations. From 1965 to 1968 Bier studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy a . a. with Rudolf Hoflehner . His work was also influenced by his Stuttgart teacher Hannes Neuner . From 1969 to 1974 he studied at the Berlin School of Fine Arts and was a master student of Shinkichi Tajiri . During this time he was already recognized by solo exhibitions in Berlin galleries. On behalf of Tajiri, he managed the metal workshop at the Berlin University from 1974 to 1976.

In 1976 he moved with his first wife, the sculptor Gerda Bier (* 1943 in Schwäbisch Hall ) to an old farm in Fichtenau in Hohenlohe . In 1977 Bier received a two-year scholarship from the Karl Schmidt Rottluff Foundation. In 1983 he won the Darmstadt City Art Prize and in 1988 the Hohenlohe Art Prize .

From 1987 to 1998 he was a professor for sculpture at the FH Aachen . In 1990 he moved into a formerly ailing farm in Schwäbisch Hall, which he converted into an artist's farm, where he lived and worked from 1994 together with his future second wife, the sculptor Gabi Welters, until his death in 1998.

Wolfgang Bier was a member of the German Association of Artists .

In addition to his work, which he mainly created in steel, he also used ceramics and leather.

Wolfgang Bier died of lung cancer in April 1998 at the age of 55.

In 2002/2003 the Museum Würth in Künzelsau organized a retrospective with 130 of his works.

reception

Wolfgang Bier began as an artist in the mid-1960s. He first started painting. The first sculptures were created in Berlin in 1967. From 1973 the head became the predominant motif in Wolfgang Bier's work. Bier's sculptural works are characterized as follows: "Preferably with iron and leather, beer creates an image of the battered and threatened to the core". “Wolfgang Bier chose iron as his preferred material. He dealt with this bulky, hard and resistant element again and again. He often combined forged iron parts with scrap iron such as machine parts, metallic industrial waste and steel consumer products and welded these together to form figures ”.

Bier himself describes the work Kopf aus Eisen (1980): “I mostly make heads. Because in the head, on the head, in the face, in its movements and twitches, it is reflected, what makes people so fascinating. So admirable, mysterious, incomprehensible, contradicting, horrible. "

Honors

Works (selection)

Skull (1984)

  • Head (1980)

  • Large skull with landscape (1981)

  • Groping Forward (1991)

  • Falling Figure (1991)

  • Anima-Animus (1997/98)

literature

  • Wolfgang Bier, catalog for the exhibition Wolfgang Bier 14 November 2002 - 18 May 2003, Künzelsau 2002.
  • Elisabeth Krimmel: The creative process, in: Exhibition catalog Rätsel, Reality , Kunsthalle Darmstadt 1987.
  • Wolfgang Nussbaumer: Room constructions in steel and iron , Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt 2002.
  • Walther Winkler: The depiction of aggressiveness in the work of Wolfgang Bier, Gütersloh 1992.
  • Beer, Wolfgang . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 36, 38-39, 72, 196, 222-223 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Bier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c kunstgeschichteportal.de : Günter Bauman: Wolfgang Bier. Sculptures, wall objects, drawings, exhibition reviews, November 12, 2007, accessed June 17, 2011
  2. ↑ http://www.kunst-quartier.de Gabi Welters.
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Bier, Wolfgang ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 4, 2015)
  4. ↑ Kunstbuchanzeiger.de Review: C. Sylvia et al: Wolfgang Bier: Ed. Museum Würth, Künzelsau 2002. ISBN 3-934350-89-5 , accessed on June 17, 2011
  5. ↑ schwaebischhall.de : Art Walk: Art in Public Space, accessed on June 17, 2011
  6. ↑ http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-bremen.de/werke.html (link not available)
  7. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Friday, April 15, 2016, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter, graphic artist and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Trübau , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1998
Place of death Schwäbisch Hall