486 - Jürgen Weber

Jürgen Weber 1928 Münster – 2007 at Pou d'es Lleo on Ibiza – Small Deposition – Bronze. Gold-brown patina. H. 29 cm. Unsigned. Design for the Church of Reconciliation in Wolfenbüttel. - Lit.: Vollmer 5, pp. 89–90. After completing an apprenticeship as a bronze caster, Weber began studying medicine. He subsequently studied art history in Tübingen and sculpture at the Stuttgart Academy of Art. In 1960, he received the Villa Massimo scholarship to study in Rome. From 1961 to 1996, he taught as a professor of elementary form at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Among his best-known works are the bronze sculptures “America” and “War or Peace” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., a state gift from the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States. Other works include the portal of St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg, the Wrestlers’ Fountain in Braunschweig, and the fountain with a historical column in Koblenz.