Waldemar Otto

Waldemar Otto (30 March 1929 – 8 May 2020) was a Polish-born German sculptor.

Otto in 2013

Biography

Otto was born in Petrikau, Poland and fled in 1945 with his parents to Halle (Saale) in Germany. In 1948 Otto started a sculpture study at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1952 he graduated as "Meisterschüler" under Alexander Gonda. His first success came in 1957, winning the "Großen Berliner Kunstausstellung" award. He made his first torso in 1961, which would become his characteristic style. All strongly abstracted, not patinated and gave them names such as: "Weibliche torso", "Gedrehter torso", "Kleiner Männlicher Torso", "Sockel Torso", "Torso vor Raster”, Figur vor Gewand.

In 1973 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. From 1976 he lived and worked in the Künstlerkolonie Worpswede in Lower Saxony not far from Bremen. time.

He died in Worpswede on 8 May 2020.[1]

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997 Russia: Hermitage Museum
  • 2001 Chile: Museo Naçional Santiago de Chile
  • 2009 Germany: "Gerhard Marcks Haus" in Bremen

Work (selection)

  • König David (1960), Bachstraße in Berlijn
  • König David (1969), Innenhof Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg in Berlijn
  • Mann in November (1974), Osnabrück en Schwäbisch Hall
  • Bidnis Katharina E. (1976), Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • Alte Frau im Sessel (1980), Wenckebachstraße in Berlijn
  • Heinrich Heine Denkmal (1982), Hamburg
  • Adam plündert sein Paradies (1982), Botanischer Garten in Hamburg
  • Flucht aus Ägypten (19??), Weihnachtskirche in Berlin-Haselhorst
  • Die Begegnung (1985), Hildesheimer Straße in Hannover
  • Mann im Drehtür (1986), Frankfurt am Main
  • Großer Sockeltorso XX (1986/87), Groß-Buchholzer Kirchweg in Hannover
  • Gedenkstele Wilhelm Leuschmer (1987), Eisenbahnstraße in Berlijn
  • Torso vor Raster (1987), University of Trier in Trier
  • Neptunusbrunnen (1991), Domshof in Bremen
  • Großer Hephästos I (1992), Hamburger Allee in Hannover
  • Mahnmal für die Opfer des NS-Justiz of Der Gehenkte (1993), Oberlandesgericht in Schleswig
  • Möwenbrunnen (2001), Neuer Markt in Rostock
  • Wieslocher Bergmann (2003), Wiesloch
  • Skulpturengruppe (2005), Hamburger Börse in Hamburg
  • Mann aus der Enge hervortretend (2007), Lenbachstraße in Essen

References

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