Poultry. Christoph Bergmann

After training and working as a carpenter, Christoph Bergmann (*1959 in Breisach a. Rhein) studied art at Helmut Lutz's Breisach School and then at the AdBK Munich. He has been a freelance sculptor in Munich since 1995. 1991 was the 100th anniversary of the first successful and photographically documented human flight. The aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal achieved the first gliding flights with the flying machines he developed. This is considered the beginning of the era of aviation. In 1886, he had an accident during further flight attempts and later succumbed to his injuries. Sacrifices must be made, he is said to have said on his deathbed. As a tribute, the Munich sculptor Christoph Bergmann created a series of filigree objects, which were first exhibited in the Lothringerstraße artists' workshop in Munich and in 1992 also at the opening of the Flugwerft Schleißheim of the Deutsches Museum (German Museum). Further exhibitions were held, for example, at the Aerosalon Paris Le Bourget and in 1997 at the Imperial Museum in London.

As a friend of the Luftmuseum Amberg (Amberg Air Museum) and the city of Amberg, he is now leaving this group of sculptures to the Luftmuseum as a permanent loan in the knowledge that they will be appreciated there and have found a worthy home. The mostly minimalist structures play with the contrasts of heavy and light, solid and fragile and with structure and transparency, leaving the viewer room for their own interpretations and associations.

Last edited on 20.01.2026