Berthold Stölzer

Berthold Stölzer (born February 21, 1881 in Sömmerda in the Weissensee district , † 1943 in Hanover ) was a German sculptor and bookplate artist.

Life

With "B. Stölzer ” signed bronze head by the architect Gustav Halmhuber in the foyer of the Hodlersaal in the New Town Hall of Hanover

Merchants carved in 1935 at the entrance to the Grotehaus , Breite Strasse 10 in Hanover; Recreated in 1949 by Ludwig Vierthaler after Stölzer

Little seems to be known about the life of Berthold Stölzer. As an autodidact, he evidently taught himself most of his artistry as a sculptor .

In addition to works made of marble , cast brass or bronze , some of which found their way into museums and galleries, the artist created memorials , for example , which were installed in the cities of Celle , Hanover and Hildesheim . In the graphic field, Stölzer also worked as an ex-libris artist.

In 1935, Stölzer created, among other things, two life-size merchant figures as part of the architectural sculpture on the stone portal of the Hanoverian Grotehaus . The building was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War in 1943 - in the same year Stölzer was killed - but the sculptures were made in the post-war period based on Stölzer's template in 1949 by Ludwig Vierthaler at the coffee merchant's company Ernst Grote newly installed building at the address Breite Straße 10 .

Other works (selection)

In public ownership:

City of Hanover: The Mar (bronze); Leapfrog (brass)
Vanitas (bronze figure), National Gallery , Berlin
Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover : Sensitive Girl (marble); Torso (marble)

literature

Exhibition Hanover - Berthold Stölzer Kopf. In: Art for everyone. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . 46th year (1930/1931), issue 8 (May 1931), FA Bruckmann, Munich 1931, p. 264 (illustration, digitized UB Heidelberg ).
Alfred Kuhn : Stölzer, Berthold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 90 .
Karl Fischoeder : Berthold Stölzer. In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture. 50th year (1934/1935), issue 3 (December 1934), FA Bruckmann, Munich 1935, pp. 68–72 (with 6 illustrations, digitized UB Heideberg ).

Web links

Commons : Berthold Stölzer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Berthold Stölzer (German, born 1881). artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alfred Kuhn: Stölzer, Berthold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 90 .
↑ ^a ^b Christel Mosel : Berthold Stölzer, sculptor. In this: handicrafts in transition. Art Nouveau and Twenties (= picture catalogs of the Kestner Museum Hannover. Volume 11). Kestner Museum, Hanover 1971, p. 46; limited preview in Google Book search
↑ ^a ^b Manfred Neureiter : Lexicon of bookplate artists. 5th, revised, expanded and corrected edition, Pro Business, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96409-034-8 , p. 576; limited preview in Google Book search
↑ ^a ^b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Breite Straße 10. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 95.

personal data
SURNAME	Stölzer, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor, graphic artist and bookplate artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sömmerda
DATE OF DEATH	1943
Place of death	Hanover

[ThB-1] Alfred Kuhn: Stölzer, Berthold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 90 .

[Museum_August_Kestner-2] Christel Mosel : Berthold Stölzer, sculptor. In this: handicrafts in transition. Art Nouveau and Twenties (= picture catalogs of the Kestner Museum Hannover. Volume 11). Kestner Museum, Hanover 1971, p. 46; limited preview in Google Book search

[Exlibriskünstler-3] Manfred Neureiter : Lexicon of bookplate artists. 5th, revised, expanded and corrected edition, Pro Business, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96409-034-8 , p. 576; limited preview in Google Book search

[HKuKL-4] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Breite Straße 10. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 95.