
Roland Phleps

Roland Phleps (1924 − 20 April 2020) was a German sculptor.
Biography.
Phleps was born in the Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt), Romania. After World War II, in which he served as a soldier, he studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen in West Germany. He obtained his doctorate in Tübingen and was a physician assistant in hospitals in Tübingen, Lübeck, Esslingen am Neckar and Freiburg from 1951 to 1959. In 1959 he lived as a neurologist-psychologist in Freiburg im Breisgau.
From the early 1980s he was interested in the art movement "Konkrete Kunst". Between 1983 and 1984 he experimented with geometric constructions of aluminum plates. From 1992 he started exhibiting his work, and his work was placed at public places. From that period he made his works in stainless steel.
The artist lived, worked and died in April 2020 in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Stiftung Konkrete Kunst.
In 1997 Phleps founded the "Stiftung Konkrete Kunst Roland Phleps" and in 1999 the "Skulpturenhalle" opened in Freiburg, where the work of Phleps is exhibited. Exhibitions are also organized, in which the following artists, among others, have participated: