Alfred Thiele (sculptor)

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Former atelier of Alfred Thiele in Leipzig
Sleeping lion, 1929

Alfred Thiele (born September 21, 1886 in Leipzig ; † September 19, 1957 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

education

As the son of the Leipzig bookseller Carl Thiele (1859–1929) and his wife Anna, b. Andra (1862–1946), he first completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and wood sculptor. From 1903 to 1908 he trained as an academic sculptor at the Leipzig Art Academy . He was a student of Adolf Lehnert and Bruno Héroux .

Creating art

Grave site Alfred Thiele and relatives, Südfriedhof Leipzig, sculpture: Seated woman, by the hand of the artist

After a short stay in Munich , Thiele settled down as a freelance artist in his hometown. Since 1910 he was represented with medals and plaques, since 1911 with figurative works at art exhibitions. Starting from the naturalism of Art Nouveau , his formal language changed from Expressionism to the new objectivity from the mid-1920s . Influenced by Aristide Maillol and Wilhelm Lehmbruck , his artistic interest focused on the representation of movement and expression of the body. As early as 1928 his work was so recognized that a newspaper headlined about him: “There is only one sculptor in Leipzig: Alfred Thiele!”. Since the 1930s he has been able to transfer his expertise in small-scale sculpture to large-scale sculpture. Due to his excellent powers of observation, his sense of motion sequences and special characteristics, Thiele developed a great mastery in animal sculpture. Some of these designs were executed by the Schaubach company in glazed and unglazed ( Milanese mass ) porcelain. In addition, Thiele dealt with building-related plastic and designs for tombs.

Teaching

As a teacher and later head of the sculpture class at the Leipzig Art Academy, Thiele exerted a special influence from 1921 to 1953. Among other things, Thiele established the tradition of animal sculpture in Leipzig in close cooperation with the zoo , which has continued to the present day. His students, in the narrower and broader sense, include Max Alfred Brumme , Hellmuth Chemnitz , Kurt Kluge , Rudolf Oelzner , Alfred Sabisch , Fritz Zalisz , Walter Arnold , Elfriede Ducke , Gisela Richter-Thiele , Hans-Joachim Förster , Bruno Kubas , Gunter Morgner , Rolf Nagel and Rolf Szymanski .

Works (selection)

Detail majolica relief, 1920
Detail grave site Kratz, 1921, Südfriedhof Leipzig
Sinnende, 1929, cement casting
Sitting in the park of the Herfurthschen Villa, Markkleeberg , 1939
  • 1917 Dancing female nude, bronze on serpentine base
  • 1918 portrait relief of Karl Kaiser and King of Austria-Hungary , bronze
  • 1919 Daphne fleeing, bronze on marble base
  • 1919 war memorial, Leisnig
  • 1920 majolica relief Degner grave, Leipzig south cemetery
  • 1921 Frauenkopf, Franconian shell limestone
  • 1921 portrait relief Wilhelm Felsche, bronze
  • 1924 soul figure, bronze
  • 1924 Squatting Nude, bronze
  • 1924 trample, bronze
  • 1925 lion, bronze on marble base
  • 1925 seated woman, bronze
  • 1925 Worshipers, bronze on a shell-limestone base
  • 1926 Leopard, licking its paw, bronze
  • 1927 jumping stallion, bronze on wooden base
  • 1927 portrait relief Arthur Hantzsch , bronze
  • 1928 Walking dromedary, bronze on marble plinth
  • 1928 Portrait heads in terracotta with light coloring of hair and lips
  • 1929 Sleeping lion, Wetzold grave, Franconian shell limestone, Leipzig south cemetery
  • 1929 Sinnende, cement casting, Grassimuseum Leipzig
  • 1929 Strider, bronze (from 2012: Museum of Applied Arts , Leipzig)
  • 1932 Lying Gnu, bronze
  • 1933 Lute player, cement casting
  • 1933 portrait relief Julius Klengel , bronze
  • 1936 Johannis figure at the Johannishospital in Leipzig
  • 1937 Woman carrying a basket, colossal statue , Johannisplatz residential building , Leipzig
  • 1938 polo player, bronze
  • 1938 After a thrown spear, bronze
  • 1938 Reclining Baisabock, bronze
  • 1938 Panther, licking paw, bronze
  • 1938 Lying Tiger, bronze
  • 1941 The morning, bronze
  • 1941 Pelican, bronze
  • 1942 Lying cheetah, bronze on a shell-lime base
  • 1947 standing, bronze
  • 1948 Scenting Tiger, bronze
  • 1949 Buddy at the entrance, bronze
  • 1949 Running giraffe, bronze
  • 1950 Relief work and trade, Messehofpassage Leipzig
  • 1953–55 Building sculpture, Rossplatz ring development, Leipzig
  • 1956 Lying guanaco, bronze

literature

  • Herwig Guratzsch (Hrsg.): Museum of the fine arts Leipzig. Catalog of the pictorial works, Cologne 1999.
  • Gertrud Classen: The moderate bondage. Thoughts on the work of the sculptor Alfred Thiele, in: Bildende Kunst, 1956, pp. 481–485.
  • Exhibition of Alfred Thiele and Georg Quenzel in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, September 16 to October 7, 1956, catalog, Leipzig 1956.

Web links

Commons : Alfred Thiele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: Herwig Guratzsch (Hrsg.): Museum des bildenden Künste Leipzig. Catalog of the visual works, Cologne 1999, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1957
Place of death Leipzig