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10th Anniversary of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation
A celebratory look back
The tenth anniversary of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation was celebrated in the plenar hall of the Academy of the Arts in a joint festive event at Pariser Platz on the 4th of November, 2006. The various connections between the Academy, the Berlin University of the Arts and the Foundation were reason enough to celebrate.
Klaus Wowereit, Member of the Foudnation’s advisory board, Mayen Beckmann, acting chairperson of the Friends of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation, and Anna Kavata Mbiti, Foundation scholarship holder spoke in honor of the Foundation.
The focus of the event, which was equally dedicated to the art of sculpture, was a panel discussion between the British sculptor Anthony Cragg and Robert Kudielka on “Art and Public Effect”.
This extraordinary program was accompanied by the young cellist Ying Guo, casting a spell with compositions by Paul Hindemith and Hans Werner Henze. Subsequent to the ceremony, close to 300 guests were invited to a reception in the Academy of the Art’s club room.
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary, a richly illustrated festschrift was published, which can be ordered from the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation.
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Contents
Open Monument Day 2006
Children as Sculptors
Heiliger Retrospective - Opening
Open Monument Day 2005
SkulpTour 2005
Children’s Night 2004
Summer Festival 2004
Press Images
SkulpTour 2003
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"Tag des offenen Denkmals" 2006
(Open Monument Day)
"Rasen, Rosen und Rabatten – Historische Gärten und Parks"
(Lawn, Roses and Flower Beds – Historical Gardens and Parks)
9.09.2006
So many people signed on for the "Reise durch drei Gärten" (Voyage of three Gardens), Sculpture Garden (Bernhard Heiliger Foundation) – Schlossgarten (The garden at Tegel castle) – Fruit and vegetable Garden (school farm on Scharfenberg island), that a bus for 40 persons had to be chartered, instead of the originally planned 20-seater. The natural forest garden next to the monument-protected atelier house, with sculptures from all work periods of Bernhard Heiliger, has been altered substantially in over half a century – a photo lecture at the beginning of the seven-hour “voyage” reported to this fact.
The Humboldt grandson Ulrich von Heinz (advisory board of the Friends of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation) then personally received the voyagers on the main stairway to his castle. In the course of an exclusive view of the study of Wilhelm von Humboldt, the highly interested group was treated to a tour of the house, family and life with and for art.
On Scharfenberg, the school principal Burkhard Ost picked everyone up at the ferry and also came to the shared meal in the school cafeteria.
The history of the island and the school, fruit and vegetable garden and livestock in changing times, art house and of course the question: How did Heiliger’s Fährmann bronze get here – the wealth of topics would have lasted a whole day. After returning to the sculpture garden at Käuzchensteig, there still was a film and a guided tour of the former atelier programmed.
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Children as Sculptors
A project by the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation, August 2006
Altogether, 86 children took part in the sculpture classes that were offered on eleven days. 43 families, a daycare center (Kita Lindenkirche) and a school (ev. Grundschule Wilmersdorf) had signed their kids on for the sculpture classes. Some children took part on several days, either to complete works they had started earlier, or to get to know other materials, or out of plain enthusiasm. All in all, 145 artworks were created, both individually and from teamwork.
The children had the rare fortune to experiment with a wide variety of materials under the guidance of renowned artists (Cornelia Bessonov, Anton Brüchert, Alicja Czupryk, Anne Hille, Dagmar Kaiser, Kai Mertens, Viola Schill, Susanne Specht, Hartmut Stielow, Barbara Veit, Zora Volantes, Pomono Zipser): Plaster, clay, wire, paper-mâché, metal, aerated concrete, tufa and more. Well received was the visit of Torsten Knaak, workshop manager at the bronze foundry Noack, who showed curious kids how a bronze cast is made over the course of an afternoon. As the crowning conclusion of the sculpture classes, the children’s works were shown at Käuzchensteig 12 during the “Lange Nacht der Museen” (Long Night of the Museums) on August 26, from 15.00 h to midnight. Several hundred visitors saw the works “at a glance” – in effect as a Gesamtkunstwerk. Even during the exhibition, the kids could take part in a children’s program and a guided tour. Almost all participants want a continuation of the sculpture classes for children, which do not exist elsewhere in Berlin in this form.
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Opening of the Heiliger Retrospective
November 4th, 2005
On occasion of the opening of the exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, on Friday, November 4th, 2005, the 1200 invited guests listened to: Wolfgang Thierse, vice president of the German Bundestag, Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Berlin, Prof. Dr. Joachim Sartorius, director of the Berliner Festspiele, Sabine Heiliger, Board member of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation and Dr. Marc Wellmann, curator of the exhibition.
Further information concerning the exhibition is available at:
www.heiliger-retrospektive.de
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"Tag des offenen Denkmals" (Open Monument Day) 2005 at the Foundation
On the topic of “War and Peace”
Saturday, September 10th, 2005
“He would have liked the dung beetles, too!” the forest warden Constien calls out while pacing through the Grunewald with us. Undeniably, the shining skin of these valuable animals resembles Heiliger’s polished bronze sculptures that the warden saw a little earlier together with the rest of the visitor group in the artist’s former atelier. Following a film and subsequent discussion of Heiliger’s life and work, we had started from there, aiming to find tracks of war events in the neighboring Dachsberg woods. So on this intensely hot day, we were following warden Constien into the cool green, who showed us – various aerial images in hand – erstwhile bomb impact sites, indicated by crooked trees, in which probably the kind of cleaver-sized shrapnel lodged that Constien found during one of his many rambles through the woods. Thankfully, the discovery of a phosphor bomb like the one found a few years ago is a rarer occurrence, which was defused and killed several wild boars that had eaten from the leaked powder. The WWII air raids, which didn’t spare the forest, seem like a tale from another time as we gaze from a surveying tower across the peaceful treetops stretching in all directions, while the warm summer wind blows the dark memories away. Also, one doesn’t suspect that the Dachsheide, the only naturally developed heathland in Berlin, grew on a former munitions depot and that the old bunkers now serve as wintering grounds for bats. Amidst the blooming heath, all kinds of smaller animals have settled, such as the Ödslandsschrecke which spreads its artfully blue-shimmering wings when it jumps. The sheep that warden Constien raises are responsible for the customary stunted growth of heath pine and come running loudly bleating when he calls out “Sheep!”, greeting us cheerfully. At this small post-war nature oasis, our forest walk ends, the profoundly special experience waking a desire for more and hope for a follow-up not too far in the future.
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SkulpTour
June 15th 2005
Picknick on the Kulturforum at Potsdamer Platz
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Children’s Night 2004
August 28th, 2004
The Long Children’s Night 2004 began with a lot of sunshine at 16:00 h. Little magicians conjured up colorful paintings in the atelier courtyard – supported by the Berlin artist Annelies Rudolph – with chalk and crayons. Budding photographers went motif hunting with digital cameras in yard and garden. The proud artists could take their artworks home right away as printouts.
From 18 h, house and garden filled up with various guests, the beginning rain notwithstanding. A film about the life anf work of the artist Bernhard Heiliger and the guided tour of his atelier and sculpture garden every hour on the hour were attractions deep into the night for many art fans. Afterwards, the guests were invited to keep warm at the open fire in the courtyard, let the evening wind down with a glass of good wine in the illuminated garden, or fortify themselves with small culinary treats for further endeavors in Berlins Museum Night.
The photos displayed here show the Children’s Night from the perspective of our youngest visitors and their parents.
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Summer Festival
June 4 th, 2004
For once, the weather report was right and it started raining right at the beginning of the festival. Luckily, this could not stop the many visitors of the festival – some of them from far away – who flowed into the atelier and garden equipped with umbrellas. Nor could the weather gods dampen the good mood: Italian appetizers and French delicacies in hand, it “rained” wonderful raffle prizes donated by numerous Berlin institutions.
The musicians played on unfazed and were celebrated by an eager audience that couldn’t even be discouraged from listening by the wet seats. Anyone who wanted greater comfort could join a guided tour of the atelier or watched a film about Bernhard Heiliger. In addition, the neighboring Brücke Museum opened for the occasion and invited visitors to take a tour. Numerous guests left their mark in the foundation’s guest book and their comments reflect the mood of the evening so beautifully that we want to provide a few examples here:
So well prepared that even the weather can’t spoil the fun.
(Ruth Steinberg)
It still was beautiful!
(Dr. Dagmar Friedrich)
And again next year, with better weather.
(Manuel Trökes)
A lovely place for Art!
(Volker Rendschmidt)
Thank you for the “warming” mood – despite the rain!
(Karin Lau, Stellvertretende Vorsitzende, Haus am Waldsee)
6 hours of driving were worth it, thank you for the invitation.
(Carola Wedell)
What a beautiful evening in beautiful surroundings.
(Egbert Augst, Nürnberg)
The special atmosphere of the site, vibrant, a powerful place of unbelievable force, the works of Bernhard Heilger in the wet of the rain – I love the rain on the rusty iron! – the first experience for me in this abundance and articulation – I am totally fascinated.
(Gertrud Kohler-Aeschlimann)
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Photos 01 to 06 Christian Mathis, photos 07 to 09 Mr. Fischer-Piel and photos 10 to 20 Mr. Schwalbe, whom we thank sincerely for these pictures.
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Press Images
Here, you can download high-resolution images of Berhard Heiliger sculptures in public spaces.
Further press images can be found on the website for the Bernhard Heilger Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau.
The files available here for download are all password protected! Should you need images for illustrating an article, please request a password from the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation for the desired images. The images are reproduction quality up to 13 x 18 cm, with a resolution of 300 dpi.
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Auftakt 1962-63
Aluminum cast, 400 x 165 x 150 cm
Philharmonie, Berlin
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Auge der Nemesis 1979-80
Iron, gray mounting, 400 x 400 x 200 cm
Kurfürstendamm vor der Neuen Schaubühne, Berlin
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Deus ex machina 1985
Iron, partly color mounting
340 x 480 x 220 cm
Hannover, "Skulpturenmeile"
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Vertikales Motiv I-III 1966/67
Bronze, partly polished
Heights, left to right, 214 cm, 262 cm, 232 cm
Sculpture Garden, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Echo I 1987
Iron, partly color mounting, 260 x 350 x 110 cm
In front of the Chamber Music Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
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Echo II 1987
Iron, partly color mounting, 300 x 120 x 250 cm
In front of the Chamber Music Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
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Figurenbaum 1957-58
Aluminum cast, 260 x 330 x 110 cm
Bonn, "Kanzlerbungalow"
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Großer Phönix I 1964-65
Bronze cast, 400 x 320 x 160 cm
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
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Pantha Rhei 1962-63
Bronze cast, 375 x 648 cm
German embassy, Paris
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Tag und Nacht 1981-82
Iron, (twofold), 500 x 850 x 1300 cm
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
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Vegetative Säule 1964-65
Bronze cast, 900 x 130 x 150 cm
Justus-von-Liebig-Schule, Frankfurt am Main
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SkulpTour
Here are a few impressions from the latest city tour to Bernhard Heiliger sculptures in public spaces.
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