Eugen Busmann

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Eugen Felix Busmann (28 December 1929 – 25 February 2015) was a German sculptor and academic teacher.[1][2][3]

Life and work[edit]

Busmann was born in Emsdetten. He served his apprenticeship and practical years as a stonemason and sculptor from 1947 until 1952 at the Bauhütte [de] in the Münster Cathedral.[1] He then studied applied and free sculpture (1956–1957) as a Meisterschüler [de] at the Fachbereich Design der Fachhochschule Münster [de] under Kurt Schwippert [de][3]).[1] From 1957, Busmann was a lecturer in plastic design at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal[1] and thus followed Schwippert to Wuppertal. The Werkkunstschule was initially merged into the Wuppertal Comprehensive University in 1974, which has been called the University of Wuppertal since 2003.[1] Busmann held a professorship at the university until his retirement in 1995.[1] In addition to teaching at the university, Busmann produced free and commissioned sculptural works, focusing on columns and steles as well as small sculptures and plaques.[1]

For over 50 years,[4] Busmann was a member of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft (BKG)[1][5] and of the Westdeutscher Künstlerbund [de].[1] Since 1954, he participated in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad.[1]

Busmann lived in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf[1] where he died at the age of 85.

Work[edit]

  • 1961: Contribution to the memorial plaque for the victims of the Second World War in the Rathaus Barmen [de], which was designed by Kurt Schwippert.[6]
  • 1962: Plaques commemorating the Wuppertal synagogues designed by Kurt Schwippert.[7]
  • 1966/67: Contributed to the artistic cast aluminium entrance portal on the old HC building of the Haspel campus (demolished in 2011), designed by Guido Jendritzko (1925-2009).[8]
  • 1967: Gravestone for the painter and sculptor Eduard Dollerschell at the time in the Sonnborn Catholic cemetery, from 1982[9] in the Niederberg Museum in Wülfrath.[3]
  • 1967: Commemorative plaque for those who died in the Second World War at the Sedanstraße Municipal Grammar School (additional plaque to the memorial by C. J. Mangner from 1921).[3]
  • 1971: Bronze plaque and design of the Wilhelm Vorwerk plant on the Höhenweg in the Barmer Forest.[3]
  • 1973: Terrain I. (in the Sammlung von der Heydt).[10]
  • 1973: Arena I. (in the von der Heydt-Museum).[10]
  • 1980/81: Bronze relief Cross Landscape in the forum of the St. Anna School in Elberfeld.[3]
  • 1988: Relief portrait of the company owner Hermann Quante († 1985) in the entrance area of the development and production centre of the Quante company on Uellendahler Straße.[3]
  • Gedenktafel für die Opfer des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Barmer Rathaus
    Gedenktafel für die Opfer des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Barmer Rathaus
  • Gedenktafeln zur Erinnerung an die Barmer Synagoge
    Gedenktafeln zur Erinnerung an die Barmer Synagoge
  • Gedenktafeln zur Erinnerung an die Elberfelder Synagoge
    Gedenktafeln zur Erinnerung an die Elberfelder Synagoge
  • Eingangsportal am Fachbereich Architektur
    Eingangsportal am Fachbereich Architektur
  • Wilhelm-Vorwerk-Gedenktafel
    Wilhelm-Vorwerk-Gedenktafel

Exhibition[edit]

  • 2010: Exhibition of works in the studio of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft (in Kolkmannhaus [de]) on the occasion of his 80th birthday and 50 years of membership in the BKG (solo exhibition).[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Gudrun Haberberger (2000). Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum. p. 66. ISBN 3-89202-042-6.
  2. ^ "Traueranzeige". Westdeutsche Zeitung. 28 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg [in German] (1991). Denkmäler, Brunnen und Plastiken in Wuppertal; (Biographien der beteiligten Künstler). Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum. pp. 28–29. ISBN 3-87093-058-6.
  4. ^ a b Meike Nordmeyer (19 February 2010). "Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft würdigt Eugen Busmann". Westdeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Eugen Busmann". Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft. Archived from the original on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Gedenktafel für die Opfer des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Barmer Rathaus". denkmal-wuppertal.de. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Die Gedenktafeln zur Erinnerung an die Wuppertaler Synagogen". denkmal-wuppertal.de. 2011-06-01. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Baubeginn am Campus Haspel". Pressestelle der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal. 8 April 2014. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  9. ^ Christine Ellrich-Schumann. "Eduard Dollerschell". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  10. ^ a b Eva Rowedder (1987). Skulpturensammlung. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum. pp. 48, 217. ISBN 3-89202-004-3.

Further reading[edit]

  • Eugen Busmann: Plastik & Zeichnungen; Studio. Wuppertal: Von-der-Heydt-Museum. 1973.
  • Oliver Zybok (1996). Sechs Künstler der Bergischen Kunstgenossenschaft: Helga Elben, Rainer Storck, Enric Rabasseda, Eugen Busmann, Kurt Luhn, Sabine Tschierschky eine Ausstellung der Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal; [anläßlich der Ausstellung "Sechs Künstler der Bergischen Kunstgenossenschaft" im September 1996]. Wuppertal: Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Abteilung für Werbung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit.

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