Erich Hauser
Erich Hauser ( * December 15 1930 in Riet -Weilheim, † March 28, 2004 in Rottweil ) was a German sculptor.
Life
Erich Hauser graduated from 1945 to 1948 trained as a steel engraver. He has also been informed in Father Ansgar in Beuron monastery in drawing and modeling.
He then studied at the Free Art School in Stuttgart. He attended evening classes of the sculpture class.
Since 1952, Erich Hauser worked as a freelance sculptor and artist - first in Schramberg, later in Dunningen - worked. He was inspired by sculptures by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the French-Italian artist Berto Lardera.
He was based in the use of metals in contemporary informal painting in the early 1950s. He left initially significantly machining marks until he discovered the smoothed surface itself. From 1962 he used industrially prefabricated steel plates to express themselves artistically. This involved examination of basic geometric shapes and technical components that already featured Hauser 's first independent works. From composed areas, he created hollow, viewable from all sides, constructed sculptures with sharp ridges and pits. The sculptures are not accessible. He put together the metal props in the way that they were in the final stage to regular space bodies. It originated spheres, cubes and tetrahedrons. Characterized these works are by their Tending after a breakup, a crumbling into ruins or a daring balancing. 1964, 1968 and 1977 he participated in the documenta III, the 4th and documenta documenta 6 in Kassel and thus gained his artistic breakthrough.
From 1964 to 1965 Erich Hauser was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since then, he used often as a motif columns and discovered the spatial height. Since 1967, he designed it from smoothly polished, curved metal plates in the form of tubes divided lengthways. In 1969 he won the prestigious art prize of the Biennale de Sao Paulo.
1970 Erich Hauser was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In the same year he moved to Rottweil of Dunningen to. There he created the so-called saline in addition to his own workshop Skulpturenpark.Sein employee Gerhard Link was his master in processing. Founded in 1996, Erich Hauser Art Foundation manages still the artistic legacy of the sculptor. At several open Sundays in the works Hauser, but also other sculptors are shown.
Hauser also participated in the construction of the nationally renowned Art Forum Rottweil.
Since the seventies, he created numerous works for public spaces, including sculptures in Darmstadt, Hanover, Kiel and Kassel. 1971 double column space for the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt was created. In 1977, Erich Hauser wall design of the State Library in Berlin.
He participated in contract work, but also produced small sculptures in sickle - or disk-shaped slices on cubic blocks.
From 1984 to 1985 Hauser received a visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1986 he was awarded the title of Professor by the State of Baden- Württemberg awarded. Remarkable for its steel sculpture Angel of 1987 in Hannover on the Sculpture Mile. The work of stainless steel has the dimensions of 12 m height and 16 m width.
Since 2008 the Rottweil Erich Hauser Prize is organized by the Art Foundation Erich Hauser, forgive. The first winner was Ugo Dossi.
Honors
Exhibitions
- Documenta 3 in Kassel in 1964
- Documenta 4 in Kassel in 1968
- Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977
Works (selection)
Steel sculpture in front of the thermal baths in Bad Bellingen
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Gelsenkirchen, space columns
Nordhorn, double column
Duisburg
Schramberg
Interior of the Church of St. Mary in Schramberg
Findling group at the Friedrich- Ebert-Platz in Schramberg
Bottle cap about 1980