Wolfgang Roßdeutscher
Wolfgang Roßdeutscher (* 1945 in Magdeburg ) is a trained German stonemason and stone sculptor who completed a degree in sculpture in Dresden.
Life
Wolfgang Roßdeutscher grew up in a stonemason and stone carving company and received his training as a stone mason and stone sculptor between 1962 and 1965. From 1968 to 1973 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where he was accepted after his first application. After graduating from the Dresden University of Applied Sciences, he built his own studio on the workshop grounds on Große Diesdorfer Straße in Magdeburg.
His preferred materials are stone and bronze.
Roßdeutscher also supervised symposia (e.g. the symposium in the Elm in Königslutter ). He took part in the competition for the reconstruction of the Magdeburg Roland and in the context of the EXPO 2000 in the project water mark on the city in Hann. Münden part.
Wolfgang Rossdeutscher is a third generation sculptor after Max and Eberhard Roßdeutscher .
The artist lives and works in the Magdeburg district of Sohlen .
Works (selection)
Many of Wolfgang Rossdeutscher's sculptures contain something archetypal. "Its material-appropriate design language appears strong, taut and concentrated". For Rossdeutscher, "sculpture and sculpture [...] also become a place of philosophical, intellectual and political debate."
- Memorial plaque for Eduard Soermus at the Kristall-Palast Magdeburg , 1975 (together with Dieter Borchardt ).
- Sculptures on the grounds of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp memorial , from 1980 (based on designs by Eberhard Roßdeutscher , the artist's father)
- Plastic "Rising female and falling male figure" on the city wall of Gera , 1983
- Sculpture “Liberated Forms” in front of the Lohne town hall , 1992
- Sculpture “Magical Square” in front of the Lohne high school , 1993
- Memorial to the Sinti and Roma murdered by the National Socialists in Magdeburg, 1998
- Memorial stele for the Diana Forced Labor Camp , 2005
- Plastic "unfolding" made of Rochlitz porphyry, height 3.20 m in soles near Magdeburg, 2006
- Sculpture of the patron god Heimdall in Thale (Harz), 2006/2007
- Sculpture Bördepaar on the Kreuzberg south of Beyendorf-Sohlen, 2015
Photo gallery
Memorial stele at the Diana forced labor camp ( marble ), Magdeburg , Westerhüsen district
Rising female and falling male figure (marble), Gera (1983)
Liberated forms (ceramics), in front of the town hall in Lohne
Magic square (marble) in front of the main entrance of the Lohne high school
Bördepaar on the Kreuzberg
Bronze manhole cover bass plate of the water traces in the city project in Hann. Münden
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Eisold, Norbert Pohlmann (Ed.): [Stone Age] Rossdeutscher. An art and life story. Three generations of sculptors in Magdeburg. P. 70. Calbe 2010. ISBN 978-3-9813652-07
- ↑ Norbert Eisold, Norbert Pohlmann (Ed.): [Stone Age] Rossdeutscher. An art and life story. Three generations of sculptors in Magdeburg. P. 9. Calbe 2010. ISBN 978-3-9813652-07
- ↑ Norbert Eisold, Norbert Pohlmann (Ed.): [Stone Age] Rossdeutscher. An art and life story. Three generations of sculptors in Magdeburg. P. 20. Calbe 2010. ISBN 978-3-9813652-07
- ↑ Norbert Eisold, Norbert Pohlmann (Ed.): [Stone Age] Rossdeutscher. An art and life story. Three generations of sculptors in Magdeburg. P. 10. Calbe 2010. ISBN 978-3-9813652-07
- ^ Heinz Gerling , Monuments of the City of Magdeburg , Helmuth-Block-Verlag Magdeburg 1991. P. 19. ISBN 978-3-910173-13-2
- ↑ raymond-faure.com : Figures of plastic in the former concentration camp Langenstein-Zwieberge, accessed on 15 October
- ↑ Heimdall is now watching over Thale Mitteldeutsche Zeitung April 26, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roßdeutscher, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stonemason and stone sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |