Wolfram Hesse

Wolfram Hesse (born October 3, 1932 in Niederau near Meißen ) is a German sculptor and painter and lives in Dresden .

Ratites

Teachers and learners

Life

After his school education in Meissen, he completed an apprenticeship as a modeller at the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen in 1951 . From 1954 to 1959 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Walter Arnold , Hans Steger and Gerd Jaeger . Then own studio in a former bicycle shop in Niederau. Freelance work in Dresden from 1960. Participation in regional exhibitions and art exhibitions in the GDR. At the beginning of 1980 he received an order for the VEB Plastmaschinenwerk Schwerin in Hagenower Landstrasse to create a sculpture on the given topic of interpersonal relationshipsto design. This is how the sculpture The Couple came about and was set up despite the client's difficulties. From 1981 he worked for the TU Dresden in the section art and architecture.

Exhibitions, selection

1977: Galerie Wort und Werk Leipzig .
1977: 8th art exhibition of the GDR ,
Young sculpture of the GDR, Dresden, 1979/1980
1984: Galerie Kunst der Zeit Dresden.

Fighting billy goats

Works (selection

1961: Memorial sculpture made of artificial stone for the first person to die on the Berlin Wall , Dresden, private collection
1963 to 1965: Group of figures for teachers and students at the Dresden University of Education, now on Teplitzer Strasse.
1980s: Betonplastik The couple for VEB Plastmaschinenwerk in Schwerin
1976: Small sculpture of flotsam , bronze, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . Cannot be found at the moment. Main catalog Deutsche Fotothek: 0191047.
1978: Penetration III, vertical motif, plaster, main catalog Deutsche Fotothek: 0195300
1984: he designed a Heinrich-Schütz bronze sculpture for a monument in Dresden, but was never executed. A model of it is in the Heinrich-Schütz-Haus in Bad Köstritz.
1985: Unstable equilibrium statue, Dresden sculpture collection, inventory number ZV 4117
1985: Bronze sculpture group of Laufvogelgruppe , Comeniusstraße Dresden
1986: Sandstone sculptures Fighting billy goats , Zwinglistraße Dresden.

literature

Elvira, Mollenschott, Jochen Zimmermann: The eighth art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden has opened. Erich Honecker and other members of the party and state leadership warmly welcomed, speeches by Minister of Culture Hans-Joachim Hoffmann and Prof. Willi Sitte, most extensive public record of the work of visual artists to date; New Germany Newspaper , No. 234, October 3, 1977, p. 1.
Christoph Brockhaus, Thomas Knubben: Small sculpture, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Republic of Austria, Switzerland: 4th Fellbach Triennial: Schwabenlandhalle Fellbach June 24th – 6th. August 1989
Prof. Jürgen Schieferdecker : University journal, article “Old and new on campus” p. 8; 9th year edition from February 17, 1998