Wolfgang Kreutter

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Sculpture with fountain: "Hütejunge" by Wolfgang Kreutter on the market square in Bad Berleburg.

Wolfgang Kreutter (born July 22, 1924 in Siegen ; † November 13, 1989 in Stadtlohn ) was a German sculptor who primarily dealt with the materials stone, wood and bronze .

Life

Kreutter was the youngest of three children of the authorized signatory of Deutsche Bank in Siegen, Heinrich Kreutter, and his wife Sophie, née. Coroner. He attended from 1934 to the Siegen School On Löhrtor , which he in 1943 with the Notabitur left. He was then called up for military service in World War II, where he was used by the mountain troops and was stationed in Finland, among other places. At the end of the war, Kreutter was taken prisoner by the US for six weeks and returned to Siegen in July 1945.

A little later he began an apprenticeship as a wood turner and wood sculptor at the court of the master wood turner and landscape painter Ludwig Florin (1889–1985) on Dödesberg, northeast of Berleburg . He passed his journeyman's examination in 1947 with the production of a spinning wheel . In the same year he attended the State Art School Hamburg . He became assistant to the sculptor Edwin Scharff (1887–1955), who was appointed to Hamburg in 1946 . At the same school, Kreutter met the sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks (1889–1981) who taught there and who further inspired him. He financed his training through woodturning work during the semester break at Hof Florin and selling his objects.

From 1950 Kreutter worked as a freelance sculptor, preferring the materials stone, wood and bronze. Between 1957 and 1960 he made experiments with the materials iron and glass, which he had never known before. At the same time, he designed book illustrations and book covers for Lene Bertelsmann's “Little Westphalian Series”, which was published in Münster . Between 1955 and 1989 he mainly devoted himself to sacred art . He designed the interiors for over 100 churches, parish houses and chapels in Westphalia and beyond, and erected memorials and memorials in public spaces. The basis for this was a contractual cooperation with the regional church office of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Bielefeld and the Bochum architect Kurt Peter Kremer , which began around 1957.

In 1964 Kreutter became a member of the Advisory Board for Church Construction and Church Art of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . From 1952 he accepted a teaching position as an art teacher at the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium in Bad Berleburg, which he carried out alongside his freelance work until 1966. In 1962, at the suggestion of Wolfgang Kreutter, the Berleburger Gymnasium decided to introduce the Johannes Althusius plaque, with which from 1963 the best of the respective high school graduate class and a few people in public life are honored. Kreutter also designed the blank of the plaque.

As part of his educational work, he produced several television programs for children in the first program of the WDR between 1957 and 1969 , initially under the moderator Walter Erasmy , from 1958 under his own direction. With his own children and children from his high school classes, he set design tasks there to stimulate creative activity. He was already developing pre-forms for the later game shows .

From 1964, a new studio was built at his residence in Berleburg on Dödesberg, based on the plans of the architect Kremer. Two years later the first exhibition of his sculptures from 1950–1966 took place in the studio. In addition to his figurative bronze works and sacred art, Kreutter turned to architectural work on large buildings, facade elements and wall designs between 1970 and 1986. To this end, he partially used the materials found in the region, including slate , glass mosaic (e.g. foyer of the Siegen district building and the main office of Sparkasse Wittgenstein in Bad Berleburg), stainless steel ( Stadtwerke Münster ), aluminum, polymer concrete ( Senckenberganlage Frankfurt) .

At the beginning of the 1980s, a number of bakery houses in the Wittgenstein district were restored at the suggestion of the then district home administrator Wolfgang Kreutter. He is also one of the initiators of the Bad Berleburger bread market. For the publication of the Wittgenstein I, II and III Heimatbooks, he was involved in the design of the cover and title pages.

In 1986 Kreutter moved from Bad Berleburg to Stadtlohn after setting up his studio and gallery there in a former school in the Almsick district . Wolfgang Kreutter died on November 13, 1989 at the age of 65 in Stadtlohn and was later buried in Siegen.

honors and awards

family

Wolfgang Kreutter married the daughter of his teacher, Emilie Luise ( Milli) Florin , on August 7, 1949 . The marriage resulted in five children, all of whom apart from the youngest son are also active in the arts. Martin Kreutter is a photographer, Gesine Kreutter Launhardt has a pottery, Angelika Kreutter is a painter and art therapist, and Annette Kreutter is a goldsmith.

Sculptures in public space (selection)

  • Facade of the former Alexander Mack secondary school in Schwarzenau .
  • Sculpture herding boy with animals on the market square in Bad Berleburg, 1989. The figure of the shepherd boy and that of the calf were completed by the sculptor Gerd Ruwe.
  • Mosaic in the stairwell of the main office of Sparkasse Wittgenstein, Poststr. 15 in Bad Berleburg, 1978.
  • Glockenspiel on the facade of the Sparkasse Wittgenstein in Bad Berleburg, 1978.
  • Snow geese (cranes) on the facade of a pharmacy, Poststr. 15 in Bad Berleburg.
  • Rural train, ceramic relief in the Volksbank Wittgenstein , Poststr. 30 in Bad Berleburg, 1968.
  • Eyewear maker , facade of an optician's shop, Poststr. 51 in Bad Berleburg.
  • Baptismal stand, baptismal bowl, ev. Town church, Schloßstr. in Bad Berleburg, 1970.
  • Cross window in the chancel of the town church, Schloßstr. in Bad Berleburg, 1970.
  • Slate steles and bronze cross , memorial in the municipal cemetery Am Sengelsberg in Bad Berleburg, 1961.
  • Biblical slate relief in the side entrance of the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium, in the Herrengarten in Bad Berleburg.
  • Cenotaph for those who fell in both World Wars at the Am Billing cemetery in Schwarzenau.
  • Mosaic exterior wall design at the Sparkasse, Talstrasse in Erndtebrück , 1979.
  • Gallery parapet in the Protestant church, Kirchplatz 2 in Erndtebrück, 1974.
  • Memorial with bronze cross in the church tower hall of the Protestant church in Girkhausen , 1961.
  • Window (leaded glazing) on ​​the cemetery chapel in Schüllar , 1989.
  • Cross with scenes from the life of Jesus (bronze), Ev. Church in Fischelbach , 1962.
  • Windows (lead glazing), ev. Church, Rainstr. 7 in Niederlaasphe , 1969.
  • Pulpit, table, baptismal bowl, ev. Church, Lahnhofweg 2 in Volkholz , 1968.
  • The young couple , bronze sculpture in the Rathauspark in Bad Laasphe , 1981
  • Wall cross with crown of thorns, altar, floor lamp, window, Christ Church, Gemmericher Str. 41 in Ahlen , 1973
  • Cross (cast bronze with brass frame), altar and pulpit (oak), baptismal stand and bowl, altar candlesticks, windows (lead glazing), Neustadtkirche, Gemmericher Str. 41 in Ahlen, 1973
  • Script cross (bronze), bible lectern (wood), altar candlesticks (bronze), Pauluskirche, Raiffeisenstr. 3 in Ahlen
  • Baptismal stand (wood), baptismal bowl (bronze), altar candlestick (bronze), our father-our-window (6) with hung lead glazing, ev. Community center, Astenweg 15 in Ahlen, 1974 and 1980
  • Altar cross with body, baptismal bowl, altar candlestick (bronze), Protestant church, Friedrichstr. 2 in Bad Lippspringe .
  • Hanging cross with corpus (bronze), altar and pulpit, baptismal stand ( Thüster Kalkstein ), baptismal bowl (bronze), Luther Church, Rünther Str. 42 in Rünthe .
  • Baptismal bowl (bronze) on historical baptismal font, altar candlestick (bronze with rock crystal), Georgkirche, St.-Georg-Str. 11 in Amelunxen .

Exhibitions

  • 1954 Siegen, cassette
  • 1959 Bochum , mining museum
  • 1963 Siegen, House Seel
  • 1964 Dortmund , HHG house
  • 1966, 1967, 1968 atelier exhibitions
  • 1968 Cortland (New York), University, USA
  • 1969 Würzburg , City Theater
  • 1969 Frankfurt , Galerie Pfeil
  • 1970 Siegen, Galerie Kleine, Oldenburg, Kunstverein, Wuppertal, Galerie Becker
  • 1971 Atelier exhibition, Frankfurt, Zurich Gallery Leptien
  • 1972 Helsinki , Pinx Tampere Gallery, Museum of Modern Art and seven other Finnish cities at the invitation of the Goethe Society .
  • 1974 and 1976, studio exhibitions
  • 1977 Siegen, House Seel, (bronzes 1950–1977), Biberach, Volksbank-Galerie
  • 1978 atelier exhibition, Bad Sassendorf , Gartenstr. 12, Bad Waldliesborn , Kurhaus.
  • 1979 Würzburg, Otto-Richter-Halle , Bremen, Galerie Khoury
  • 1980 Atelier exhibition, Berlin , gallery in the citadel, Hude, gallery Klostermühle, Paris , St. Maur, museum, exhibition with the working group Siegerland artists, Liesborn , museum in the abbey, Wetzlar , city gallery, Hemer , gallery Monika
  • 1981 Dortmund, Kunstverein, Essen , City Gallery, Marburg, Kunstverein, Vreden , VHS Town Hall, Ochtrup , VHS Volksbank, Willebadessen , European Sculpture Park.
  • 1982 Atelier exhibition, Werl , Stadthalle, Soest , Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus
  • 1985 Versmold , gallery (wood collages, together with Hermann Falke ).
  • 1987 First gallery exhibition in Almsick (Stadtlohn), Ibbenbüren, participation in the design of the art paths through Ibbenbüren .
  • 1988 Second gallery exhibition in Almsick.
  • 1993 Wolfgang Kreutter retrospective in the Ev. Academy Iserlohn (Haus Ortlohn): The art and the congruence of cross and life.

Filmography

  • Play with! , 1960–1962, game show for children and young people. There was candy to be won. From 1962 Peter René Körner took over the moderation of the show, which was then given the title Game with René.
  • The Little Academy , 1961–1963
  • Wolfgang Kreutter's rattling lesson , 1964–1966
  • The advertising column , 1966–1967

Web links

literature

Isolde Arends: Wolfgang Kreutter - A sculptor in Westphalia, Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Bad Berleburg - history. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bearers of the Johannes Althusius plaque. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Isolde Arends: Wolfgang Kreutter - A sculptor in Westphalia, Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, p. 86.
  4. ^ Dieter Schäfer: The development of the game show in Bavarian television. Diplomica-Verlag 1994.
  5. ↑ Chronology of the board members. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ About us - Heimatverein Arfeld. Retrieved on March 22, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ Fritz Krämer: Heimatbuch Wittgenstein I and II , Gebrüder Zimmermann Verlag, Balve 1965.
  8. ^ Publishing group Wittgensteiner booksellers: Heimatbuch Wittgenstein III , Weyandt GmbH, Bad Laasphe 1984.
  9. ^ Archivar: Wolfgang Kreutter, a Berleburg artist with Siegen roots. In: siwiarchiv.de. January 25, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2019 (German).
  10. ^ Isolde Arends: Wolfgang Kreutter - A Sculptor in Westphalia, Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, p. 35.
  11. ^ Isolde Arends: Wolfgang Kreutter - A Sculptor in Westphalia, Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, p. 88
personal data
SURNAME Kreutter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1989
Place of death City wages