Arno Zauche

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Arno Zauche, 1935

Arno Oswald Zauche (born June 1, 1875 in Weimar ; † May 29, 1941 in Weimar) was a German sculptor and porcelain ceramist .

Zauche was a student of Adolf von Donndorf and can therefore be added to the Weimar School of Sculpture . In the period after 1913 (after the departure of the founder Max Adolf Pfeiffer to the Meißen porcelain manufactory ), Zauche was an artistic employee of the Schwarzburg workshops for porcelain art .

Works (selection)

  • Several designs for monuments and fountains in Thuringia , e.g. B. a more than three meter high statue for a monument to Prince Karl Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen on the Long Mountain near Gehren from 1912. or the frog fountain (Weimar) from 1910 or the mallard fountain .
  • In Weimar a memorial for the soldiers of the 94th Thuringian Infantry Regiment who fell in World War I (former location in front of the south wing of the Weimar City Palace , removed in 1949).
  • A large-format sandstone relief Foundation of the university , with the goddess Pallas Athene , in 1908 for the inauguration of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena ( overhang on the north wall of the small inner courtyard of the main building).
  • A group of about one meter tall plastic soccer players from Zauche last stood in the library of the Jena State Gymnastics Institute (today the University's Institute for Sports Science). In April 1940, at the request of the then director Ernst Herberger, it was given to a metal collection for the “Fuehrer's birthday donation” (reason: “There is nothing to be said against the purely artistic design, but from a sporting point of view ... it is so unfortunate and shows a completely misleading movement . ”) On April 12, the responsible minister Marschler noted in the files that the football players, unlike another artist, should remain at the institute. The further whereabouts of the group of figures is unknown, and no images are known.
  • Life-size bronze figure of deer , exhibited at the German Horticultural and Silesian Trade Exhibition (GUGALI) in Liegnitz in 1927 (on the Bergerwiese). The cast model has been preserved. An identical figure (second cast?) Has stood in the park of Gut Schwaighof near Augsburg since the late 1920s .
  • Bronze figure of girl on a shell , before 1929
  • Bronze figure duck
  • Shepherd dog porcelain figurine , Schwarzburg workshops for porcelain art, around 1922 (according to other information, 1923)

literature

  • Helga Scheidt: Two busts of the last Schwarzburg special houses princely couple and their creator Arno Zauche , in: From the past of Arnstadt and the surrounding area, 4.1994, pp. 157–159.
  • German Horticultural and Silesian Trade Exhibition in Liegnitz 1927 - "Gugali". Organized by the city of Liegnitz (1927) (panels for the exhibition): it contains 12 black and white photos, panel 6 titled: Parkwiese at the main restaurant; Animal sculpture by Arno Zauche, Dresden (a life-size bronze deer figure is shown). The location of Dresden indicates that Zauche was temporarily staying in Dresden.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The bronze figure has not been preserved. Illustration of the monument: (PDF file)
  2. ↑ Figure: Fig. 7 (PDF file; 5 MB)
  3. ↑ Source: Jena University Archives, inventory C, No. 121, sheet 38, quoted from Hans-Georg Kremer, Kristin Knebel: Does the state gymnastics institute look like the Weimar Belvedere pleasure palace? . In: Jena contributions to sport. 75 Years of the State Gymnastics Institute, publisher: Institute for Sports Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2004, pp. 7–14, here p. 10.
  4. ↑ Source ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Zauche, Arno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zauche, Arno Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1941
Place of death Weimar