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The “Installation without title” by Bernd Wagenhäuser for the Weilheim Sculpture Trail is located on the walk between the Kneipp facility and the Au pond.
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In a series, the local newspaper presents the artists of all ten new works that were created for the Weilheim Sculpture Trail.
Today: Bernd Wagenhäuser’s “Installation without a title” in the Au.
Weilheim - In a series, the local newspaper presents the artists of all ten new works that were created for the Weilheim Sculpture Trail, which opened in autumn 2023 - and asks them to answer short questions about their work and Weilheim.
Today: Bernd Wagenhäuser, whose “untitled installation” can be seen in the Au on the walk between the Kneipp facility and the pond.
The sculptor received coveted awards
Bernd Wagenhäuser, born in Hanau in 1953, studied plastic design at the University of Design in Wiesbaden in the mid-1970s and received a studio scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria in 1998/99.
He has lived as a sculptor in Bamberg for a long time, where he was awarded, among other things, the ETA Hoffmann Prize of the City of Bamberg (2016) and the Berganza Prize of the Kunstverein Bamberg (2009).
Wagenhäuser himself describes his design language as “dynamic-minimalist” and his material is steel, primarily Cor-Ten steel.
This is also what the artist's work for the Weilheim Sculpture Trail consists of.
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Bernd Wagenhäuser (70) lives and works as a sculptor in Bamberg.
He has received several awards.
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Here are Bernd Wagenhäuser's answers to our newspaper's questions:
For me, art is...
...a part of my daily life, basically I'm constantly dealing with art.
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My work for Weilheim should...
...or the drift of wood can be a mental relic: the flowing water, the forces that are released during the drift of wood and move the tree trunk with great energy... Now the trunk lies there, as if released from the moorland, the past and the genesis equally.
This is how I would explain this sculpture in one sentence:
The installation presents itself as a dynamic lying object with diverse and playful interpretation possibilities.
I learned my art...
...including at the University of Design in Wiesbaden - and of course with constant activity.
You can see other works of mine here:
In many public areas in northern Bavaria.
Apart from the sculpture trail, what I like about Weilheim...
...the almost Mediterranean flair of the old town.
All reports
on the artists and works on the Sculpture Trail can be found online at www.merkur.de (enter the search term “Sculpture Trail Weilheim”).
Bernd Wagenhäuser also has a website: www.atelier-wagenhaeuser.de
Also read in our series on the Weilheim Sculpture Trail:
“Scoop” by Renato Rill - a cornucopia inspired by “The Notwist”
“The Limits to Growth - Monument to a Blade of Grass” by Hermann Bigelmayr
“Volcanic eruption from hell beneath Weilheim” by Egon Stöckle
“My dear, help me to exist in this world” - a torture in honor of the animals by Cornelia Rapp
“In Order To Location” by Carlotta Wirtl
“Haus” by Basilius Kleinhans