Herbert Baumann
b. 4 January 1927 in Blumberg (D), d. 22 May 1990 in Stuttgart (D); German sculptor
1948-1950 | Trained under the sculptor Walter Schelenz at the arts and crafts school in Bonndorf in the Black Forest |
1950-1952 | Training as a stonemason |
1952-1955 | Studied sculpture at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design |
1955 | Period of practical training in Paris |
1956-1959 | Studied under Karl Hartung at the Berlin University of the Arts |
1963 | Visit to Japan |
1965 | Professor of sculpture at the Stuttgart Academy |
1966 | Wilhelm Lehmbruck Funding Award of the City of Duisburg |
Symposia:
1960 | Invited by Karl Prantl to the 2nd Symposium of European Sculptors in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland |
1961 | Participation in the first national sculpture symposium in Germany, the Kaisersteinbruch symposium in a Muschelkalk quarry in Gaubüttelbrunn, Lower Franconia |
1961-1963 | Participation with Karl Prantl, Erich Reischke, Gerson Fehrenbach, Yasuo Mizui and others in the so-called Wall Symposium, the symposium of European sculptors organized in the Tiergarten district of Berlin as a protest against the building of the Berlin Wall. The Symposium was subsequently awarded the Deutscher Kritikerpreis. |
1964 | Participation with Karl Prantl, Morice Lipsi and Hiromi Akiyama in the sculpture symposium in Vyšné Ružbachy in Slovakia |
1974 | Participation with some of his students in a sculpture symposium organized by the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design on Leonberg Heath |