Adam Antes

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Adam Antes (born August 11, 1891 in Worms ; † November 28, 1984 ibid) was a German sculptor and graphic artist.

Life

Adam Antes was the son of a simple laborer. In the years 1905 to 1908 he trained as a sculptor and stonemason and then undertook the obligatory journeyman's hike . Between 1910 and 1913 he worked as an assistant in the studio of the sculptor Daniel Greiner in Jugenheim . This mediated first contacts to the artists of the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe . Through a recommendation from Wilhelm Pinder , he came to the technical college in Offenbach am Main , after which he took sculpture courses at the Technical University of Darmstadt . A stay in Munich in 1914 and in Worms in 1918 is documented. In 1919 he returned to Darmstadt , where he set up his own studio on Mathildenhöhe. In the following years he was mainly active as a sought-after portrait sculptor and also dealt with the design of a single-wing aircraft designed by him. In 1944 his studio was destroyed by the effects of the war, so that he first moved to Monsheim and later back to his native city of Worms. He lived and worked there until his death in 1984.

Adam Antes was married to Irene Antes for the second time and had been friends with the Darmstadt painter and graphic artist Carl Gunschmann since 1912 .

The artist

Swan flying up , bronze, 1965

In his works, Antes based himself on the formal language of Auguste Rodin , Bernhard Hoetger and, above all, Wilhelm Lehmbruck . With his numerous flight models, he succeeded in merging art and technology. In addition to sculpture, he occasionally turned to graphics.

Today his works can be found in numerous museums such as the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Städtische Gemäldegalerie in Worms. Further works can be found in the town hall in Oberhausen, in Essen's Grugapark ( swan flying up ) and in numerous private collections.

Prizes and awards

literature

  • Michael Heyder and Emmi Pannenbecker, Antes, Adam , In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 4, 1992, p. 237
  • Flying Wing is Air Liner of Future , In: Modern Mechanix and Inventions , July 1934 edition, p. 72

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Segitz: Einflügelflugzeuge , in: Reclams Universum Heft 6, 50th year, Nov. 9, 1933, pp. 197–198 (with 4 illustrations)
personal data
SURNAME Antes, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1984
Place of death Worms