Anton Schickel

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Anton Franz Josef Schickel (born February 11, 1899 in Hanau ; † May 1943 near Vitebsk ) was a German goldsmith and artist .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a craftsman, Anton "Toni" Schickel first attended the then Frankfurt School of Applied Arts and worked as a journeyman in various workshops in southern Germany. From 1922 to 1926 he ran a goldsmith's workshop in Hanau and attended evening courses at the Hanau goldsmith school. One of his teachers was Prof. Karl Lang, who was then the leading enameller at the Hanau State Technical School. In 1927 Anton Schickel passed the master craftsman examination.

Far beyond Aachen Anton Schickel from 1928 as head of the "precious metal workshop" at the time of known Rudolf Schwarz led art school Aachen . All “work in gold, silver and enamel fell into his area of ​​responsibility. Church art, jewelry. Engraving, chasing, driving ”. His few, extremely short contributions on the topic of “cult devices” were considered to be groundbreaking: “... The work shown was carried out in our school workshops (metal and goldsmith class) and belong to a large series of experiments that we set up with the intention of clarifying the form of cult devices to get rid of senseless ingredients and bring them to their basic forms. "

Schickel's best-known students during his teaching time at the Aachen School of Applied Arts include Fritz Schwerdt , Hubert Dohmen and Will Plum.

After the National Socialists' forced dissolution of the arts and crafts school in May 1934 , Anton Schickel founded his own workshop for church utensils and jewelry in the Aachener Vereinsstraße; One of his students from this time was the well-known Aachen goldsmith Gerhard Thewis . Schickel also took part in joint projects of some alumni of the Aachen School of Applied Arts, such as the "German St. Michael Altar" in the "Pavillon Catholique Pontifical" at the Paris World Exhibition of 1937 or in the 1939 exhibition "HUISRAAD EN LEVEN IN DUITSCHLAND" (sic!) in Antwerp, Belgium.

Anton Schickel died as a soldier in Belarus in May 1943, where he was among other things used as an interpreter for Russian.

Works (selection)

Anton Schickel's photo estate, which mainly consists of goblets and monstrances, has been preserved, but the majority of his oeuvre is considered lost due to the lack of a catalog. Are u. a. the following works:

  • Monstrance (1931) for the Corpus Christi Church in Aachen .
  • Monstrance, holy water kettle with Aspergillus, ciborium and vessel for holy oils (1933) for the chapel built by Rudolf Schwarz in Leversbach .
  • Altar cross (1933) with gilded body and four corner images in cell enamel for St. Sebastian (Munich) .
  • Bishop's staff (1936), ivory and silver gilt, for Dr. Franz Demont, Vicariate Apostolic of Aliwal , South Africa; now owned by Aachen Cathedral .
  • Monstrance (1936), silver-gilt, with enamel and pearls, in the church of the Kamillianer-Krankenhaus Mönchengladbach.
  • Bowl on three feet as the racing prize of the Aachen-Laurensberger-Rennverein for the international riding tournament Bad Aachen (1937), silver with engraving, private property.
  • Tabernacle on the main altar and altar crosses (1937) for the Aachen seminary .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • "Exhibition of Church Art in Duisburg", Duisburg 1930.
  • Art service exhibition "CULT AND FORM - New Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Art from Use", Berlin 1930.
  • Art service exhibition "CULT AND FORM - New Protestant, Catholic and Jewish cult work", Hamburg 1931.
  • "Contemporary Religious Art", Essen 1932.
  • “The German St. Michael Altar” in the “Pavillon Catholique Pontifical” at the World Exhibition, Paris 1937.
  • "HUISRAAD EN LEVEN IN GERMANY" (sic!), Antwerp 1939.
  • Memorial exhibition for the Aachen artists who died in the war in 1939/45 in the Suermondt Museum , Aachen 1946.
  • "Church Art in the Diocese of Aachen 1930-1980", Aachen 1980.
  • “Liturgy vessels. Church and Design ”, Trier 1997.

Fonts

  • A. Schickel: The work of the Aachen School of Applied Arts. In: The Form. November 1930.
  • Kunstgewerbeschule Aachen (Hrsg.): New cult device. Work classes Wilhelm Giesbert and Anton Schickel. Aachen 1932.

Literature (selection)

  • P. Gregor Hexges (Hrsg.): Anno sancto 1933/34 - Furnishing art in the house of God. Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Art Service Berlin (Hrsg.): Deutsche Merenkunde. Alfred Metzner Verlag, Berlin 1939–1942 (GOODS GROUPS “Jewelry / Rings” and “Jewelry / Necklaces and Pendants”).
  • Sepp Schüller: Obituary for Anton Schickel. In: Sepp Schüller (Ed.): The Aachen artists who died in the war in 1939/45 / On the commemorative exhibition of the Aachen artists who died in the war. Suermondt Museum, Aachen 1946.
  • Adam C. Oellers : On the history of church art in the diocese of Aachen from 1930 until today. In: Church Art in the Diocese of Aachen 1930-1980. Exhibition catalog. Museums of the City of Aachen, Aachen 1980.
  • Adam C. Oellers: 50 years of church art in the diocese of Aachen. In: Habitat Diocese of Aachen. Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 1982. ISBN 3-920284-09-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Lill et al. August Hoff: Yearbook for Christian Art 1940 . Publishing house of the German Society for Christian Art, Munich 1940.
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Peters : Fritz Schwerdt - "Usable, serving device" . In: Aachen Cathedral Chapter (ed.): Fritz Schwerdt - pioneer of modern sacred art . Exhibition catalog. Cathedral chapter, Aachen 2010.
  3. ↑ Kunstgewerbeschule Aachen (ed.): New cult device. Work classes Wilhelm Giesbert and Anton Schickel. , Aachen 1932.
  4. ↑ Art Service Berlin: The German St. Michael Altar. Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin 1937.
  5. ^ Art Service Berlin: HUISRAAD EN LEVEN IN DUITSCHLAND - Inleiding tot de Duitsche Tentoonstelling . Uitgave van de German-Belgian Society in Berlin. Art Service, Berlin 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Schickel, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schickel, Anton Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH May 1943