Bernhard Butzke

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Bernhard (Johannes Karl) Butzke (born May 20, 1876 in Berlin ; † 1952 there ) was a Berlin blacksmith and sculptor.

Bernhard Butzke trained at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur in Berlin, then was a pupil at the teaching institution of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and from 1893 to 1900 employed as a modeler at KPM. He then worked as a freelance sculptor in Berlin.

Among other things, he created a decorative sculpture on the facades of the town halls in Charlottenburg and Friedenau and a life-size female nude made of bronze (around 1910) for the Zehlendorf town hall . Butzke is particularly famous for his depictions of deer and other depictions of animals. During this time he also worked as a modeller at the Schwarzburger Werkstätten .

literature

  • Butzke, Bernhard . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 46 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
  • Butzke, Bernhard . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 45 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Irene von Treskow: The Art Nouveau porcelains of the KPM. Munich 1971, p. 254.
  • Ethos and pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Exhibition catalog, Staatl. Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1990, Volume 2, p. 428, No. 73.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Image index of art and architecture
  2. ↑ Bernhard Butze at Zezschwitz, auction 40, March 4, 2008, lot 94 ( memento of January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Bernhard Butzke, 'Froschkönigin' (1922–1923) , auction catalog Auktionshaus Stahl, September 12, 2009, lot 690.
personal data
SURNAME Butzke, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhard Johannes Karl Butzke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death Berlin