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Hans Brockhage was a   designer   And   sculptor   German   .

Hans Brockhage was the son of a cashier at the Schwarzenberg bank. Read the full biography

Hans Brockhage Biography

Hans Brockhage was a   designer   And   sculptor   German   .

Hans Brockhage was the son of a cashier at the Schwarzenberg bank.   After graduating from high school   in 1942, he was drafted   in military service during   World War II   .   In 1944 he was seriously injured.   In 1945 he began an apprenticeship as a sculptor and wood turner.   From 1947 to 1952 he studied at the Academy   of Fine Arts in Dresden   with   Mart Stam   And   Theodor Arthur Winde   (1886–1965).   Stam oversaw the creation of the revolving wagon, children's furniture and play equipment, which received an award from "spiel gut" in Ulm in 1957.

In 1949 his first daughter was born   Anna Franziska   .   He was a student in the seminary of   Marianne Brandt   in 1950/1951, both had a friendly and professional relationship until his death.   In 1955, Brockhage opened his own laboratory in his hometown of Schwarzenberg, and from then on he worked as a freelancer.

After a long stay in Cuba in 1965, he built his house in Schwarzenberg until 1968 with the help of the architect and designer   Robert Lenz   (who works in the studio with   Le Corbusier   ).   From 1967 to 1977 he worked as a teacher at the   Halle University of Industrial Design, Burg Giebichenstein   in Halle.

In 1968 he began his sculptural works in wood and concrete.   In 1971 he held his first exhibition at   Grassi Museum   of Leipzig with Thea Reichart.   In 1973 Brockhage became the first president of the sales cooperative for fine artists in Karl-Marx-Stadt and was co-founder of the   gallery above   .   In 1977 he was appointed professor at the   technical school for applied arts (now a department of the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau)   to   Schneeberg   .

Between 1978 and 1989 he made several study trips to France, during which he studied the architecture of Le Corbusier at the Dominican monastery of Sainte Marie de la Tourette in Eveux-sur-Arbresle/Lyon and at the Sanctuary of Ronchamp.   Since 1979, Jörg Beier, Andreas Schmidt, Hartmut Rademann and his son   Peter Paul Brockhage   they worked for him as artistic collaborators.   In 1985 he began with free-figure works and montages in oak, concrete and bronze.

In 1989-1991 he worked on sculptures for a multi-year exhibition in the baroque garden of   Kloster Camp   .   His works are represented in several public collections, as works of art in buildings and in private collections.   In January 2009, shortly before his death, he took over the patronage of the 3rd Schwarzenberg art-figura prize.  

In 2009, his monumental wooden project   Strandburg   , which he had created for the Berlin Palast Hotel, was demolished and its remains thrown into the courtyard of his Schwarzenberg studio.

From 2000 until his death in February 2009 he wrote several books, among others about Bauhaus member Marianne Brandt, the art of carving in the Ore Mountains and his own work.