Wolfgang Eckert (sculptor)

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Sophie Scholl , with Walhalla since 2003

Wolfgang Eckert (* 1964 in Furtwangen / Black Forest) is a German sculptor.

Life

Eckert completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor from 1980 to 1983. From 1989 to 1995 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Eduardo Paolozzi and Hans Ladner . In 1994 he was named a master student there. Eckert set up a studio on an agricultural property outside Furtwangen in 1995. He lives there with his wife, the painter Julia Elsässer-Eckert.

Altar back wall design, corpus made of concrete coated with iron oxide, metal construction made of water-jet-cut aluminum, partially covered with gold leaf, Dachsberg-Urberg
Large group from Wolfgang Eckert's dance of death cycle

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Eckert's artistic field of work includes, on the one hand, the sculptural representation of people using figurative sculpture. In addition, he deals with the architecture-related design of sacred spaces.

Eckert models figurative sculptures in clay and casts them in concrete, occasionally also in bronze, using the "lost form" method. In newer plants, mixed work techniques such as concrete with applied iron oxide or concrete with applied alumina can also be found. In addition to small sculptures as well as life-size and larger-than-life figures, a portrait cycle has been created since 1994. It is a representation of people who were asked to come to portrait sessions in the studio due to everyday encounters with the artist. Starting in 2005, Eckert added a number of well-known people from public cultural life to this series of works, such as B. Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2005), Martin Walser (2006), Eugen Biser (2011) or Robert Spaemann (2012). Other portrait sculptures, including those carved in marble, were created outside of this portrait cycle in the course of commissioning, such as the bust of Sophie Scholl for the Walhalla or the portrait bust of the composer Karl-Amadeus Hartmann (1999) for the Hall of Fame in Munich. Eckert was also commissioned to portray Pope Benedict XVI. in Freiburg Minster (2011) and Klemens Maria Hofbauer (2016) for the Catholic parish church of St. Clemens in Triberg.

Eckert's second creative branch, sculptural works with reference to architecture, is primarily the design of liturgical objects in church rooms. In the search for contemporary space-art contexts, he uses a variety of materials. In addition to the materials stone, bronze and concrete, he has also been using CNC-controlled water jet techniques since 2002 by developing sculptures with contour cuts in aluminum and stainless steel. In this process, several crosses and objects were created that were used in various churches as contemporary replacements for lost historical high altars, such as B. in the Catholic Church of St. Georg in Rittersbach or the Catholic Church of St. Kilian in Berolzheim. More recent works of this kind are made up of multi-layered, heavily perforated panels that are staggered one behind the other and are also gold-plated in the background, such as B. in the Catholic Church Dachsberg-Urberg or the Catholic Church Angelbachtal.

Works in public space (selection)

  • Design of the chancel in the Heimhoferkapelle of the Freiburg Minster , 1996
  • Portrait of Karl Amadeus Hartmann for the Hall of Fame , Munich, 1999
  • Design of the chancel of the Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary, Stetten ob Lonetal, 2000
  • Design of the chancel of the Catholic parish church St. Stola, Kösingen, 2001
  • Portrait bust by Sophie Scholl for the Walhalla , 2003
  • Altar back wall design of the Catholic parish church St. Georg, Rittersbach , 2004
  • Design of the chancel by the Catholic Church of St. Boniface, Herbrechtingen, 2007
  • Karl Borromäus - group of figures in the seminary church, Freiburg i.Brsg., 2009
  • Relief plaque Pope Benedict XVI. in Freiburg Minster, 2011
  • Jakobus figure group in the Catholic Church of St. Jakobus, Schutterwald , 2010
  • Altar back wall design of the cath. Heilig Kreuz Church, Angelbachtal, 2010
  • Altar back wall design of the Kath Church St. Peter and Paul, Dachsberg-Urberg, 2012
  • Danuvius figure on the source of the Danube (source river Breg ), Furtwangen / Katzensteig 2017
    Danuvius figure made of bronze
  • Statue of Raimund von Penyafort at the Official Office of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, 2018

Publications

  • WA Mozart - On the search for form. A work report. Catalog for the exhibition in the Alte Post in St. Märgen. Designconcepts-Verl. St. Märgen 2006, ISBN 3-9807059-5-1 .
  • with Eduard C. Saluz: Dance of Death. Ways and processes to represent impermanence. Catalog for the exhibition in the German Clock Museum. Designconcepts-Verl., Furtwangen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9807059-9-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Maurer: Hinterzarten: High Black Forest between cliché and reality. November 29, 2011, accessed April 21, 2012.
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung : To friend Hein after Furtwangen - exhibitions reviews . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on November 27, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Web Commerce GmbH www.w-commerce.de: Dachsberg-Urbach Church of St. Peter and Paul. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Peter Kalchthaler: A sculpture on the new Officialat commemorates the legendary sailing tour of St. Raimund. Badische Zeitung, June 25, 2018, accessed on December 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eckert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Furtwangen , Black Forest