Wolfgang Kleinsteuber

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Wolfgang Kleinsteuber (* 1944 in Benshausen in Thuringia ; † 2012 in Berlin ) was a German painter and sculptor . He was also known by his stage name Wolf van Roy .

life and work

Seating group of lovers on the subway station Dahlem

Kleinsteuerber grew up in Thuringia and fled the GDR in 1958 . From 1959 to 1962 he studied wood sculpture at the Fachschule für angewandte Kunst / Rhön and from 1963 to 1969 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master student of Georg Brenninger (1909–1988) sculpture and architecture . He lived and worked in Berlin since 1970.

In the 1970s he worked as an art teacher. He took up motifs from non-European and ancient art in his work . Other areas of work were visual poetry and neopaganism . Kleinsteuber's objects are in public and private collections and especially in public places in Berlin. His main works include the sculpture St. Hildegard created in the 1970s in the Catholic School Sankt Hildegard , Berlin and the spatial sculptures created in the 1980s in the train stations of Lichterfelde West (Flora) and Dahlem Dorf (lovers) in Berlin. The latter are based on the ancestral statues of the West African Dogon and thus created a connection to the collections of the Museum of Ethnology, which was then not far from the underground station .

In addition, Kleinsteuber worked regularly with various artists from different fields in the "open studio" he founded. a. with Joachim Walther . He also worked as an illustrator . He lived in the historic Wüllenweber villa in Lichterfelde , which he operated as a museum for contemporary art, as directed by the donor Hildegard Wüllenweber-Pechstein (1920–1993), the niece of Max Pechstein . Wüllenweber and Kleinsteuber were the founders of the Black Rose citizens' initiative , thanks to which the Lichterfeld garden city was declared a protected building area.

Kleinsteuerber died in his Berlin villa in 2012. He was buried in the Lichterfelde park cemetery. Christian Gizewski gave the funeral speech .

public orders

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Van Roy - Objects, Art. With illustrations by Wolfgang Friedrich R. Kleinsteuber. Berlin 1984.
  2. ↑ Dahlem district. At: berlin.de , accessed on May 7, 2020
  3. ↑ Bawdy benches: Berlin's sexiest seating. At: secretcitytravel.com , accessed on May 7, 2020 ( English )
  4. ↑ Dahlem-Dorf U-Bahn Station Benches At: theplacesihavebeen.com , accessed on May 7, 2020 (English)
  5. ↑ Land-Art, Art in and on the forest. At: wegezumholz.de , accessed on May 7, 2020
  6. ↑ From Dahlem underground station to the artists of the bridge. At: morgenpost.de , accessed: May 7, 2020
  7. ↑ Lucia Jay, Verena Eidel, Carolin Huder: 111 Places in Berlin That One Must See , Volume 2, 2016. P. 62
  8. ↑ Joachim Walther: Between the chairs. Stories. Freese, Berlin 1987.
  9. ↑ Udo von Massenbach: The runes are. Poems. 2004.
  10. ↑ "Black Rose": 40 years of fighting the wrecking ball. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  11. ↑ kla: Building rights secure villa colony in Lichterfelde-West . In: The world . December 23, 2002 ( welt.de [accessed May 7, 2020]).
  12. ↑ New old love? , accessed on May 13, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kleinsteuerber, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinsteuerber, Wolfgang Friedrich R .; Roy, Wolf van (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Benshausen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH 2012
Place of death Berlin