Fritz Nut

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Glance into the Nuss estate in Strümpfelbach
Weingärtner , Stein 1985
Listening , bronze cast 1966, Strümpfelbach sculpture trail
Shepherdess , bronze casting 1978, Paths to Art
Martin shares his coat, bronze cast in 1983 in front of the Martinskirche in Sindelfingen

Fritz Nuss (born May 24, 1907 in Göppingen ; † March 3, 1999 in Strümpfelbach ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Fritz Nuss was first trained as a chaser in Schwäbisch Gmünd and then studied in Schwäbisch Gmünd with Albert Holl (1890–1970), in Munich with Hermann Hahn (1868–1945) and from 1928 to 1933 in Stuttgart with Ludwig Habich . After becoming a professor in 1943, he moved to Strümpfelbach. His son Karl Ulrich Nuss was born in the same year . From 1952 to 1972 he headed the class for sculptural design at the University of Applied Sciences in Schwäbisch Gmünd . In 1977 he became an honorary citizen of Weinstadt .

Works

The main subject of his sculptures was the human body. If one believes that Maillol's influence can still be recognized in his early works, the more abstract and expressive figures of the 1950s and 1960s are more reminiscent of tendencies in Henry Moore's. The sculptural works of the 1970s and 1980s appear more moving and less static.

After 1933, Nuss had adapted to the National Socialist conception of art : since 1938 he took part regularly and with numerous works in the propaganda and sales shows of the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. At the 1942 exhibition, Martin Bormann bought the sculpture Jüngling (kneeling figure) , at the 1944 exhibition the large-scale sculpture Der Morgen was bought by Adolf Hitler .

Nuss also designed numerous medals, for example for the weightlifting world championships in Stuttgart in 1977 and for the John Cranko Prize in 1982. Also medals in honor of the single-handed sailor Claus Hehner , the sculptor Arno Breker (1985) on behalf of the Arno Breker Society and Fritz Nuss created two cast bronze medals with a portrait of Otto Marzinek . In 1971, in the competition to issue a 5 DM commemorative coin for Albrecht Dürer's 500th birthday, his design (2nd prize, a 1st prize was not awarded) was implemented.

Publicly accessible works

Stuttgart area

In Strümpfelbach (now part of Weinstadt ), Fritz Nuss's long-term residence, numerous figures from various creative periods can be seen. The parish church of St. Jodokus has a bronze door by Fritz Nuss. In the basement of the half-timbered town hall there is a well designed by him, which is visible behind a lattice gate.

In Waiblingen-Neustadt , in front of the town hall, there is a figure created by Nuss, The Plum Knocker .

The Liederhalle Stuttgart in Stuttgart is decorated with four relief panels by his hand. He also designed the Elly Heuss Knapp Memorial Fountain and the sculpture of the Great Thinker at the Wilhelmspalais . The sculpture seated reading can be found on Mailänder Platz in Stuttgart's Europaviertel .

Works by Fritz Nuss can also be seen in the gallery of the city of Stuttgart and in the Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Various sculptures and fountains can be found in Aalen ( Reichsstädter Brunnen in front of the New Town Hall, 1976; crucifix in the Markuskirche), Ellwangen ( Angel of Peace near the Church of St. Wolfgang), Freudenstadt, Göppingen, Mössingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd (fountain in Hinteren Schmiedgasse).

Wurzburg

The discus thrower bought by the city of Würzburg in 1940 stands on the Sanderrasen sports field , a sculpture that was previously set up in the Ringpark in accordance with the National Socialist view of art.

Berlin and London

Works can also be seen in the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen Berlin and the British Museum in London.

Exhibitions

  • 1973: Fritz Nuss - sculptures and medals , Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart
  • 1980: Fritz Nuss, sculptor , Municipal Museum, Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • 1982: Fritz Nuss - sculptures and drawings , Gallery of the City of Stuttgart , Stuttgart
  • 1982: Bietigheim City Library, Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • 1985: Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Dätzingen Castle , Grafenau
  • 1987: Town Hall, Aalen; Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Dätzingen Castle, Grafenau
  • 1988: Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart
  • 1997: Rathausgalerie, Aalen
  • 2019: Fritz Nuss as a draftsman , Gallery of the City of Plochingen, Plochingen

Awards

Trivia

In 1973 Nuss was portrayed by Fritz Kohlstädt . The 80 × 65 cm oil painting with the title “Prof. Fritz Nuss ”is privately owned in the USA .

literature

  • Otto Marzinek, Otto Heuschele: Fritz Nuss - medals . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart / Aalen 1997, ISBN 3-8062-0181-1 .
  • Rainer Albert, Franz Machauer: Fritz Nuss - Medals II (=  series of publications of the Numismatic Society Speyer . Volume 47 ). Numismatic Society Speyer, Speyer 2007, ISBN 978-3-934723-07-8 .
  • Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber : Findings on the medal creation of the Swabian sculptor Fritz Nuss (1907–1999) . In: Yearbook for Numismatics and Monetary History . tape 60 , 2010, p. 207-242 .

Web links

Commons : Fritz Nuss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website GDK Research - Image-based research platform to the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich
  2. ^ Museum of European Art , Münzkabinett Collection 1986.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Mayer: Cultural monuments and museums in the Rems-Murr district . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0596-5 , p. 207 .
  4. ↑ Inauguration of the fountain on Mailänder Platz
  5. ^ Konrad A. Theiss: Art and cultural monuments in the Ostalb district . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0596-5 , p. 43 .
  6. ^ Konrad A. Theiss: Art and cultural monuments in the Ostalb district . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0596-5 , p. 127 .
  7. ^ Konrad A. Theiss: Art and cultural monuments in the Ostalb district . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0596-5 , p. 315, 317 .
  8. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1285, note 344.
  9. ^ Fritz Kohlstädt: Retrospective of the works 1947–1991. Verlag Fa.Drescher (Ed.), Rutesheim 1991, p. 217.
personal data
SURNAME Nut, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1999
Place of death Strümpfelbach (Weinstadt)