Berthold Knittel

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Berthold Hermann Knittel (born February 14, 1853 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † 1918 probably there) was a German sculptor , photographer and music teacher . His father Josef Alois Knittel was a sculptor, as was his brother Gustav Adolf Knittel .

Life

Virgin Mary statue in the cemetery in the Freiburg district of Sankt Georgen
The fountain originally had the sculptures of three boys on the cairn. Each of the boys stood for one of the three streams - Ibenbach, Wagensteigbach and Rothbach - from which the Dreisam is created. The group of figures was destroyed during the bombing of Freiburg.

Berthold Knittel created works of marble , models of clay and plaster, and made stucco applications such as putti and medallions. He followed his father's romantic, idealizing style. According to his own statement, Berthold worked together with his brother Gustav Adolf on the Knittels family grave in the Freiburg main cemetery . Besides crucifixes and Victory Column in several small places that the French German War 1870-71 testify, he created in 1879 a Virgin Mary statue at the cemetery of the Church of St. George in the district of St. Georgen is. Another Madonna can be found in the church of St. Leodegar in Bad Bellingen .

His group of fountains on Alleegarten was destroyed as a result of the 1944 bomb attack . It was located opposite the college building KG I of the university and, as a boy, represented the three source rivers of the Dreisam : Ibenbach , Wagensteigbach and Rotbach . The cairn on which the monument was located can still be seen today.

In 1882 the KK Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna acquired a plaster cast of the idolo Amazonico made by Knittel in Freiburg , which had previously been in the possession of the director João Barbosa Rodrigues in Rio de Janeiro.

A conspicuous advertisement in the Freiburg address book in 1890 is worth mentioning insofar as this is otherwise only known from Knittel's colleague Alberto Luratti .

Knittel was also active as a photographer by documenting his works himself. There is also a photo panel from 1911 in which he himself reports on Berthold Herman Knittel's past .

In addition, Knittel taught from 1893 until his death as a music teacher at the private music school Euterpe, which he founded, on piano, violin and zither.

Between 1911 and 1915, according to a newspaper advertisement due to illness, he worked as an inventor and businessman , but then returned to sculpture.

literature

  • Michael Klant: The Knittel family of artists. In: Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces , Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 179

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Archives Freiburg i. Br., Badische Standesbücher, inventory L 10, No. 1549, Freiburg i. Br., Catholic parish St. Martin 1850–1855, image 181 (p. 333, # 34)
  2. ^ Freiburg State Archives. State Description Department, State Archives Directorate Baden-Württemberg: The district of Lörrach: A. General part. B. Community descriptions Aitern to Inzlingen. C. Sources and literature , J. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 1993, ISBN 978-3-7995-1353-1 , p. 546
  3. ↑ alt-freiburg.de: Brunnen im Alleegarten , accessed on December 26, 2010
  4. ^ Franz Heger: The archaeological and ethnographic collections from America in the KK Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna , Vienna 1908, Verlag des Bureaus des XVI. International Americanist Congress, p. 28

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personal data
SURNAME Knittel, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knittel, Berthold Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, photographer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH 1918
Place of death uncertain: Freiburg im Breisgau