Lothar Fischer
Lothar Fischer ( born November 8, 1933, Germersheim, † 15 June, 2004 Baierbrunn in Munich) was a German sculptor.
Life
Lothar Fischer was born in 1933 Germersheim / Pfalz, the son of an art teacher Rosa and Max Fischer and moved in 1934 with his family to Neumarkt id Oberpfalz. about. After graduating from Fischer studied from 1952 to 1958 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich first art education in the class of Marx Anton Müller. In 1953 he joined the professional sculpting Heinrich Kirchner and was in contact with Toni Stadler. Together with fellow students and painters Prem, Helmut Sturm and Hans Peter Zimmer in 1957, he founded the artists' group track. In 1964, Lothar Fischer participated in the documenta III in Kassel. From 1975 to 1997 he taught as a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin. In 1984 he was a lecturer at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. In 1991, Fischer became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Work
Lothar Fischer was one of the most important German sculptors after the Second World War. His works deal mainly with the abstracted human figure, as well as riders and horses, which he preferred working in clay. In addition, he created his sculptural work in bronze, iron and gypsum styrofoam and worked numerous brush and ink drawings and watercolors.
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, the city in which he spent his youth and he was closely connected to the last, opened on 19 June 2004, the Museum Lothar Fischer, in which issued a large part of his life's work and his legacy. Several works by fishermen of a donation from Otto van de Loo are shown at the Kunsthalle in Emden.