Richard Grüttner

Richard Grüttner (born April 7, 1854 in Breslau ; † July 3, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

From 1868 to 1872 he attended the art school in Breslau . He then worked as a stone sculptor in Leipzig , Berlin, Dresden , Paris and Munich . For some time he was in charge of the molding of the pieces found during the excavations in Olympia from 1874 onwards for the Berlin plaster molding shop . In 1886/1887 he set up the museum at the excavation site. After a stay in Italy, he returned to Berlin in 1889.

Works

In 1883 he created the reconstruction of the Nike des Paionios .

Statue of St. Michael in front of the Egestorff Foundation's Rosenhof in the Osterholz district of Bremen
Statue of Freiherrn vom und zum Stein at Rathaus Wetter , 1909
Art Nouveau grave "Gustav Eltschig", 1911, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Detail, Luisenstädtischer Friedhof , Berlin-Kreuzberg
Reconstruction drawing of the Nike des Paionios after Grüttner
Detail, Richard Güntsche grave , Berlin-Wilmersdorf

literature

H. Pomtow: The Paionios-Nike in Delphi . In: Yearbook of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute . tape 37 . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1922, p. 55 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
Grüttner, Richard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 140 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Richard Grüttner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Sibylle Einholz (arrangement): “Fine, white… plaster!” On the meaning of a controversial material. (Booklet for the exhibition in the Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg) Berlin 1991, p. 3 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Grüttner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1919
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Sibylle Einholz (arrangement): “Fine, white… plaster!” On the meaning of a controversial material. (Booklet for the exhibition in the Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg) Berlin 1991, p. 3 f.