Anton star head
Anton Star head (born April 10 . Jul / April 22, 1889 greg. In Röa , then municipality of Kohila , today rural community Rapla , Estonia , † the 30th December 1966 in Tartu ) was an Estonian sculptor and painter .
Life
Anton Starkopf was born into the extended family of a farmer. He attended general and business schools in Estonia and Saint Petersburg before turning to art. Star head studied 1911-12 at the private art school of Anton Ažbe in Munich . In 1912/13 he continued his art studies in Paris at the Académie Russe and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière .
With the outbreak of World War I , Starkopf was arrested as a Russian citizen in Dresden in autumn 1914 and initially interned in Wehlen . From 1916/17 he worked as a prisoner of war in Rathen and Dresden as a stone carver and in 1917/18 in Berlin in Franz Metzner's studio . Wilhelm Lehmbruck's expressionist works in particular left a lasting impression on him during this period.
In 1918 Anton Starkopf was able to return to Estonia . In 1919 he co-founded the Pallas art school in Tartu . There he worked from 1919 to 1940 and from 1942 to 1944 as a lecturer, from 1934 with the title of professor. He headed the school from 1921 to 1923 and from 1929 to 1940. From 1944 to 1950, star head was chair at the state art institute in Tartu, from 1947 as a professor.
In 1950 he moved to Moscow , where he worked in the studio of the well-known Soviet sculptor Sergei Merkurov . This also offered Starkopf some protection from Stalinist persecution. In 1954 he moved back to Tartu and established himself as a freelance artist. In 1964, star head was awarded the title of “People's Artist of the Estonian SSR ”. In 1972 a studio museum dedicated to Starkopf's work opened in his house in Tartu.
Artistic work
Anton Starkopf began in 1913 with drawings that were initially committed to Art Nouveau and later increasingly to Expressionism . The expressionist style is particularly evident in his sculptures and sculptures from the 1920s. In the second half of the 1920s, clear forms dominated, especially in his wooden female figures.
Starkopf created several important memorials for the fallen of the Estonian War of Freedom , including in Tori (1923) and Puhja (1925). Both were later destroyed by the Soviet occupying forces. In addition, star head worked on grave monuments and from 1954 on portraits of famous Estonian artists (including Kristjan Jaak Peterson 1956/57, Konrad Mägi 1963 and Nikolai Triik 1964).
Anton Starkopf showed himself to be a master of all materials, especially wood, granite and bronze.
Private life
From 1920 to 1928 Anton Starkopf was married to the Estonian painter Lydia Mei . From 1936 to 1940 he had the surname Starkopf-Rea. Anton Starkopf is the grandfather of the Estonian sculptor Hannes Starkopf (* 1965).
literature
- Voldemar Erm: Anton Starkopf. Tallinn 1977
Web links
- CV (Estonian)
- Works by Anton Starkopf
- Meenutades Starkopfi (cultural newspaper Sirp , April 24, 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/anton-starkopf-2
- ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 489
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Star head, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Star head Rea, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Röa , then Kohila municipality , now Rapla rural municipality , Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1966 |
| Place of death | Tartu |